Reservations and veto mechanisms found in marine conservation agreements have contributed to the decline of living ocean resources. This book chronicles their use in the history of key marine conservation and management regimes and examines the evolving legal framework that informs, and potentially limits, their use.

Field projects that employ Marine Conservation Agreement (MCA) best practices can be approached in at least two distinct ways: 1) by explicitly launching a new project with MCA principles (or similar principles) in mind, normally publicly selfidentifying as such; or 2) by assessing an existing project that works directly with right-holders to determine if and how one or more MCA best practices can be integrated into the project to improve the likelihood of success. Practitioners can use the MCA Field Guide with either approach and may find that when using the Field Guide to assess

'Marine Conservation Biology' brings together leading experts from around the world to apply the lessons and thinking of conservation biology to marine issues. The contributors cover what is threatening marine biodiversity and what humans can do to recover the biological integrity of the world's oceans.