Marine Protected Areas: Science, Policy and Management

After ten years as Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich, London, for whom his work in Africa won a Queen’s award, John Humphreys moved to the south coast of England where he has served as non-executive director of a port and harbour authority and as chair of a UK inshore fisheries and conservation authority. He is currently visiting professor at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Marine Sciences and President of the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association. His other books for Elsevier include Marine Protected Areas: Science Policy and Management.

Robert is a fisheries and conservation manager with 20 years of practical experience of developing and implementing coastal and marine fisheries management. Robert holds degrees in Environmental Protection, Coastal Management and an MBA (Open). The majority of his career has been spent working in fisheries and MPA management and planning in the UK. He worked extensively as a sea going enforcement officer and qualified as a helmsman with the RNLI with extensive prior search and rescue experience. He has been responsible for developing and implementing successful strategy to turn around some of the poorest performing fisheries in the UK and in so doing delivering both conservation as well as economic benefits. Robert is a Council Member of the Institute of Fisheries Management and Chief Officer for the Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority where he has overall responsibility for delivering MPA and fisheries management strategy.