Human Dimensions of Large-scale Marine Protected Areas: Advancing Research and Practice

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Acknowledgments

We thank the editors of Coastal Management for inviting and supporting this special issue. We also thank the anonymous reviewers who greatly improved the quality of each contributed article.

Funding

Partial funding for the preparation of this article and special issue came from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. NB acknowledges the support of the Banting and Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs. RG and NJG received support for their contribution to this work from the Oak Foundation, The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Waitt Foundation, and Lyda Hill.

Notes

1. Toonen et al. (2013) and the Big Ocean network of LSMPA managers define LSMPAs as those larger than 250,000 km². Other authors have defined LSMPAs as larger than 30,000 km² (de Santo 2013) or 100,000 km² (Spalding et al. 2013; Gruby et al. 2016).