Local support is important for the longevity of conservation initiatives. The literature suggests that perceptions of ecological effectiveness, social impacts, and good governance will influence levels of local support for conservation. This paper examines these relationships using data from a survey of small‐scale fishermen in 11 marine protected areas from six countries in the Mediterranean Sea. The survey queried small‐scale fishermen regarding perceptions and support for conservation. We constructed composite scores for three categories of perceptions—ecological effectiveness, social impacts, and good governance—and tested the relationship with levels of support using ordinal regression models. While all three factors were positively correlated with support for conservation, perceptions of good governance and social impacts were stronger predictors of increasing support. These findings suggest that employing good governance processes and managing social impacts may be more important than ecological effectiveness for maintaining local support for conservation.

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当地对保护的支持与对善治，社会影响和生态有效性的看法有关

当地的支持对于保护计划的长寿很重要。文献表明，对生态有效性，社会影响和善政的看法将影响当地对保护的支持程度。本文使用对来自地中海六个国家的11个海洋保护区的小规模渔民的调查数据，研究了这些关系。该调查向小规模渔民询问对保护的看法和支持。我们针对三类感知（生态有效性，社会影响和善治）构建了综合评分，并使用有序回归模型测试了其与支持水平的关系。尽管所有三个因素与对保护的支持呈正相关，对善政和社会影响的认识是增加支持的更强有力的预测指标。这些发现表明，采用良好的治理程序和管理社会影响可能比生态有效性更重要，以保持当地对保护的支持。