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Engaging and legitimizing communities: co-designing a community-based marine pr...
Rangel, Mafalda; Horta e Costa, Barbara; Guimarães, Mª Helena; Ressurreição, Adriana; Monteiro, Pedro; Oliveira, Frederico; Bentes, LuisMarine Protected Areas are increasingly used as tools to preserve marine habitats and biodiversity worldwide. Nonetheless, creating MPAs in densely populated multi-use coastal areas comes with intrinsic conflict potential, since protection and economic development are not always hand-in-hand and local users might disagree with the designation of such conservation tools. The use of inclusive and transparent part...
Evaluation of MPA effects on small-scale fisheries: a long-term landings-based ...
Belackova, Adela; Bentes, Luis; Buhl-Mortensen, Lene; Horta e Costa, Barbara; Gonçalves, Jorge Manuel SantosSmall-scale commercial fisheries represent a significant economic activity that can be affected by coastal Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Official fishery landings data can serve as an effective means of evaluating the effects of MPAs on fisheries and harvested species, as they are available over long periods and do not incur any costs. However, the use of long-term landings as a solid baseline for pre-MPA cond...
Engaging and legitimizing communities: co-designing a community-based Marine Pr...
Rangel, Mafalda; Costa, Barbara Horta e; Guimarães, Mª Helena; Ressurreição, Adriana; Monteiro, Pedro; Oliveira, Frederico; Bentes, LuísMarine Protected Areas are increasingly used as tools to preserve marine habitats and biodiversity worldwide. Nonetheless, creating MPAs in densely populated multi-use coastal areas comes with intrinsic conflict potential, since protection and economic development are not always hand-in-hand and local users might disagree with the designation of such conservation tools. The use of inclusive and transparent part...
Co-design of a marine protected area zoning and the lessons learned from it
Horta e Costa, Barbara; Guimarães, M. Helena; Rangel, M; Ressurreicao, Adriana; Monteiro, Pedro; Oliveira, Frederico; Bentes, LuisMarine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a tool to safeguard marine natural systems, yet their effectiveness depends on how well they are integrated into the existing socioeconomic context. Stakeholder engagement in MPA design can contribute to increasing integration. This study focuses on the co-design of an MPA between researchers, public administration, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations. The pr...
Setting performance indicators for coastal marine protected areas: An expert-ba...
Cardoso-Andrade, Mariana; Queiroga, Henrique; Rangel, M; Sousa, Inês; Belackova, Adela; Bentes, Luis; Oliveira, Frederico; Monteiro, PedroMarine Protected Areas (MPAs) require effective indicators to assess their performance, in compliance with the goals of relevant national and international commitments. Achieving and prioritizing shortlists of multidisciplinary indicators demands a significant effort from specialists to depict the multiple conservation and socioeconomic interests, and the large complexity of natural systems. The present paper d...
Setting performance indicators for coastal marine protected areas: an expert-ba...
Cardoso-Andrade, Mariana; Queiroga, Henrique; Rangel, Mafalda; Sousa, Inês; Belackova, Adela; Bentes, Luis; Oliveira, Frederico; Monteiro, PedroMarine Protected Areas (MPAs) require effective indicators to assess their performance, in compliance with the goals of relevant national and international commitments. Achieving and prioritizing shortlists of multidisciplinary indicators demands a significant effort from specialists to depict the multiple conservation and socioeconomic interests, and the large complexity of natural systems. The present paper d...
Autonomous temporal pseudo-labeling for fish detection
Veiga, Ricardo; Exposito Ochoa, Iñigo; Belackova, Adela; Bentes, Luis; Parente Silva, João; Semiao, J.; Rodrigues, JoãoThe first major step in training an object detection model to different classes from the available datasets is the gathering of meaningful and properly annotated data. This recurring task will determine the length of any project, and, more importantly, the quality of the resulting models. This obstacle is amplified when the data available for the new classes are scarce or incompatible, as in the case of fish de...
Co-design of a marine protected area zoning and the lessons learned from it
e Costa, Horta; Guimarães, M. Helena; Rangel, Mafalda; Ressurreição, Adriana; Monteiro, Pedro; Oliveira, Frederico; Bentes, Luis; Sales Henriques, NunoMarine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a tool to safeguard marine natural systems, yet their effectiveness depends on how well they are integrated into the existing socioeconomic context. Stakeholder engagement in MPA design can contribute to increasing integration. This study focuses on the co-design of an MPA between researchers, public administration, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations. The pr...