Regulations of Human Activities & Protection Levels in Marine Protected Areas of the United Kingdom

Master Thesis: Environmental Management
Regulations of Human Activities & Protection Levels in Marine Protected Areas of the United Kingdom
by Elsa Sim
A detailed breakdown of the assessment of 391 MPAs across seven activities and results from this study can be found in this folder. The folder consists of: (1) a QGIS project containing shapefiles of MPAs with associated protection levels, human activities, and general attributes; (2) an Excel spreadsheet of the raw data to assess the 391 UK MPAs; and (3) an Excel spreadsheet of consolidated tables used for analysing the results.

Instructions:
Open a new GIS file and insert geopackages of MPAs and boundaries included in the download to see spatially explicit data of UK MPAs.