Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth, Richmond Building, Portland Street, Portsmouth, PO1 3DE, UK.
Environ Manage. 2011 Apr;47(4):546-63. doi: 10.1007/s00267-011-9632-5. Epub 2011 Mar 4.
Marine conservation is often criticized for a mono-disciplinary approach, which delivers fragmented solutions to complex problems with differing interpretations of success. As a means of reflecting on the breadth and range of scientific research on the management of the marine environment, this paper develops an analytical framework to gauge the foci of policy documents and published scientific work on Marine Protected Areas. We evaluate the extent to which MPA research articles delineate objectives around three domains: biological-ecological [B]; economic-social[E]; and governance-management [G]. This permits us to develop an analytic [BEG] framework which we then test on a sample of selected journal article cohorts. While the framework reveals the dominance of biologically focussed research [B], analysis also reveals a growing frequency of the use of governance/management terminology in the literature over the last 15 years, which may be indicative of a shift towards more integrated consideration of governance concerns. However, consideration of the economic/social domain appears to lag behind biological and governance concerns in both frequency and presence in MPA literature.
海洋保护经常因其单一学科的方法而受到批评，这种方法对复杂问题提供了碎片化的解决方案，对成功的解释也各不相同。本文作为对海洋环境管理科学研究广度和范围的反思，提出了一个分析框架，以衡量海洋保护区政策文件和已发表科学工作的重点。我们评估了海洋保护区研究文章在三个领域（生物-生态[B]；经济-社会[E]；治理-管理[G]）中确定目标的程度。这使我们能够开发一个分析[BEG]框架，然后在选定的期刊文章队列样本上进行测试。虽然该框架揭示了以生物为重点的研究[B]的主导地位，但分析还表明，在过去 15 年中，文献中越来越频繁地使用治理/管理术语，这可能表明人们越来越倾向于更综合地考虑治理问题。然而，在海洋保护区文献中，经济/社会领域的考虑在频率和存在方面似乎都落后于生物和治理方面。
