Design of marine protected area zoning with spatial analysis for sustainable marine resources in Banda islands, Indonesia

Arief Darmawan,

2015 | Tesis |

Marine Protected Area (MPA) is established to prevent destructivity of marine environment by regulating activity inside of area through zones with certain criterias. The research located in Banda Islands to achieve objectives: (a) to apply a decision support tool for MPA zoning (b) to define the best MPA zoning scenario (c) to explore advantage of decision support tool (d) to get lesson learn from the research location. Meanwhile, a combination of GIS and MarZone used for analysis with 3 conservation scenarios. The Scenario 1 was to achieve target 30% of important habitats protected in the MPA zones, the Scenario 2 was to achieve area of the core zone at least 2 % of total area of the MPA and the Scenario 3 was experimental where cost factors developed from attribute data. The research showed that: (a) Scenario 1 resulted MPA zones with 4.1 % of total area in the core zone and conserved 28.3 % of coral reefs. Meanwhile, Scenario 2 resulted an expansion to the existing conservation area with 0.9 % of total area in the core zone and conserved 7.6 % of coral reefs. Scenario 3 resulted improvement of Scenario 1 with 2% of total area in the core zone and conserved 17.8% of coral reefs (b) Scenario 3 was the appropriate result (c) Combination of GIS and MarZone were useful for MPA zoning analysis (d) selection of data, large area, planning units size, conservation targets, cost features were an integral component in the design of MPA zoning.

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