SocMon Monitoring Site

Montego Bay Marine Park

Caribbean : Jamaica
Year completed: 2005

Socio-economic survey of attitudes towards the Montego Bay Marine Park.
UNEP-CEP/NOAA SocMon Project

 

Objectives

Awareness of the Marine Park and the coastal/marine environment; The perceived importance of the coastal/marine environment to individual enterprises and the overall economy; Perceptions of potential negative environmental impacts; Preferred management/institutional structures for marine resource conservation; Willingness to invest in marine resource conservation.