The use of policy in the management of marine protected areas

December 2015

Over the course of the past 7 months I have been interviewing marine protected area (MPA) practitioners and policy makers in various Australian jurisdictions, to understand the implementation of various policies and legislation in managing a MPA. I’m now making a start on the qualitative analysis that goes along with semi-structured interviews and look forward to having some results and writing it as a PhD chapter in the very near future. So far, I can say that it is a very complex topic and nothing appears to be straight forward.

Survey example:

example survey

If you would like to learn more about my research: http://marinepalaeoecology.org/kerrie-fraser/

Kerrie Fraser