Acknowledgments
The results presented in this article are one aspect of the work of Project IMPAACT (http://projectimpaact.asia) – a project of the Marine Protected Areas Research Group, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada. Financial support for this project came from the Social Science and Human Research Council of Canada and the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project. The principal author is a Trudeau Scholar, a SSHRC Scholar, a Fellow of the Centre for Global Studies, and a Fellow of the Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Project. We would like to recognize our Thai partners – the Department of National Parks, Phuket Marine Biological Centre, and Prince of Songkla University – and the invaluable contribution of three research assistants – Piyapat Nakornchai (Por), Alin Kadfak, and Jutathorn Pravattiyagul (Aice).