Includes glossary. Pomeroy, R. S., Parks, J. E., & Watson, L. M. (2004). How is your MPA doing? : A guidebook of natural and social indicators for evaluating marine protected area management effectiveness. Cambridge, U.K. : IUCN.

Introduction -- Purpose of this guidebook -- Why evaluate management effectiveness? -- What is 'management effectiveness'? -- Things for you to consider when using this guidebook -- How to use this guidebook -- Section 1: The evaluation process -- Chapter 1: Selecting your indicators -- Identifying your MPA goals and objectives -- Match relevant indicators to your MPA goals and objectives -- Review and prioritize the indicators identified -- Identify how the selected indicators relate to one another -- Chapter 2: Planning your evaluation -- Assess resource needs for measuring your indicators -- Determine the audience(s) who will receive the evaluation results -- Identify who should participate in the evaluation -- Develop a timeline and a workplan for the evaluation -- Chapter 3: Conducting your evaluation -- Implement your evaluation workplan -- Collect data -- Manage collected data -- Analyse collected data -- Encourage peer review and independent evaluation of results -- Chapter 4: Communicating results and adapting management -- Share results with target audiences -- Use results to adapt management strategies -- Other consideration -- Section 2: The MPA management effectiveness indicators -- The biophysical indicators -- The socio-economic indicators -- The governance indicators

Guidebook which aims to improve MPA management by providing a framework that links the goals and objectives of MPAs with indicators that measure management effectiveness. The framework and indicators were field-tested in 18 sites around the world, and results of these pilots were incorporated into the guidebook. Published as a result of a 4-year partnership of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas-Marine, World Wildlife Fund, and the NOAA National Ocean Service International Program Office.