Abstract
Marine Protected Areas: Integrating MPA Global with the WDPA Track: Ocean, Coastal, and Marine Resources Author(s): Lucy Fish, Louisa Wood, Simon Blyth, Phillip Fox In 2002 at the World Summit of Sustainable Development, world leaders agreed to create an ecologically representative network of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) by 2012. An updated comprehensive global MPA database has been developed through collaboration between WWF, the "Sea Around Us" project at the University of British Columbia and UNEP-WCMC. UNEP-WCMC has been the custodian of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), from which MPA Global has been developed, for more than 20 years. The WDPA contains spatial and aspatial data on protected areas. MPA Global is a fully searchable database where users, such as park managers, governments or other stakeholders, can easily improve or add aspatial and spatial information on marine-protected areas. Integration of MPA Global data improves the WDPA. ArcGIS, ArcIMS and ArcSDE are utilized to ensure the WDPA is available to users to aid the monitoring and establishment of a representative network of protected areas. Lucy Fish UNEP-WCMC GIS 219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB30DL GB Phone: (0)1223 277314 E-mail: Lucy.Fish@unep-wcmc.org Louisa Wood University of British Columbia Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory 2202 Main Mall Vancouver , British Columbia V6T 1Z4 CA Phone: +1 604 822 1639 E-mail: l.wood@fisheries.ubc.ca Simon Blyth UNEP-WCMC GIS 219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB30DL GB Phone: 44(0)1223277314 E-mail: simon.blyth@unep-wcmc.org Phillip Fox UNEP-WCMC Internet and GIS Services 219 Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB30DL GB Phone: 44(0)1223277314 E-mail: phill.fox@unep-wcmc.org |
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