Impact of a local, coastal community based management regime when defining marine protected areas: Empirical results from a study in Okinawa, Japan

• Payal Shah ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: payal.shah@oist.jp

  Affiliation Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9349-4614

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• Sahan T. M. Dissanayake,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Portland State University, Portland, Oregon and IUCN-Sri Lanka, Colombo Sri Lanka

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• Yoko Fujita,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

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• Paulo A. L. D. Nunes

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

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