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Case study report: The Strait of Sicily case study, Sicilian sub-case study

A7.6 Case study report: The Strait of Sicily case study, Sicilian sub-case study

Basic details of the case study:

Initiative Egadi Islands (Isole Egadi )Marine Protected Area, Sicily
Description The implementation and management of the Egadi Islands marine protected
area (designated under national legislation) and the overlapping cSAC (due to be
designated under the Habitats Directive)
Objectives Nature conservation / MPAs: Maintaining or restoration to favourable
conservation status of conservation features
Scale Local (single MPA), ~540 km 2
Period covered 1991-2012
Researchers Giovanni D’Anna, Tomás Vega Fernández, Carlo Pipitone, Germana Garofalo,
Fabio Badalamenti (Institute for Coastal and Marine Environment (IAMC),
National Research Council (CNR))
Researchers’ Natural Science (Environmental Science, Marine Ecology)
background
Researchers’ role Independent observers
in initiative

The next 34 pages reproduce the case study report in full, in the format presented by the authors
(including original page numbering!).

The report should be cited as:

D’Anna, G.; Badalamenti, F.; Pipitone, C.; Vega Fernández, T.; Garofalo, G. (2013) WP6 Governance
Analysis in the Strait of Sicily. Sub-case study: “Sicily”. A case study report for Work Package 6 of the
MESMA project (www.mesma.org). 34pp.

A paper on this case study analysis is in preparation for a special issue of Marine Policy.

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