%0 Report %D 2006 %T Economic Analysis Marine Protected Areas : A literature review %A Alban %A Appéré %A Boncoeur %A Austen %A Higgins %A Mangi %A Marcos %A Maynou %A Pérez-Ruzafa %A Vandeperre %I EMPAFISH European Marine Protected Areas as tools for Fisheries management and conservation %K economy %K ecosystem %K effectiveness %K fishery %K impact %K indicator %K management %K marine protected area %K Mediterranean sea %K methodology %K protected area %K recreation %K review %K socioeconomic aspects %X

Work packtage 3 of EMPAFISH is devoted to analyse the socio-economics impacts of MPAs and to select the best subset of indicators of MPA performance, under each management regime, considering socio-economic indicators and providing a quantitative analysis of the socio-economic performance of MPAs.The present booklet review the socio-economic literature dedicated to various aspects of marine protected areas related to ecosystem preservation, fisheries management, recreationnal activities, nd distributional consequences of MPAs and methodolical issues fos cost-benefit analsis and its application to MPAs, and the specific problem of economic valuation of non-market values. MPAs is becoming an experience field for ecnomists and sociologists ans we are just now in the starting point.