This publication proposes a framework for assessing management effectiveness, recognising the need for a variety of responses depending on needs and resources. It aims to help all those who wish to assess protected areas, both in suggesting what needs to be done and in providing some guidelines.
Author(s):
Dudley, Nigel
Hockings, Marc
Stolton, Sue
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
IUCN, Office for the Commonwealth of Independent States
University of Cardiff, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
This publication proposes a framework for assessing management effectiveness, recognising the need for a variety of responses depending on needs and resources. It aims to help all those who wish to assess protected areas, both in suggesting what needs to be done and in providing some guidelines.
Author(s):
Dudley, Nigel
Hockings, Marc
Stolton, Sue
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
IUCN, Office for the Commonwealth of Independent States
University of Cardiff, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
It is sometimes assumed that protected areas must be in conflict with the rights and traditions of indigenous and other traditional peoples on their domains.
Author(s):
Beltrán, Javier
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
WWF International
Cardiff University, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
These guidelines explore financing options for protected areas and provide advice and information on sustainable financing. Both public and private financing is needed to ensure provision of the private and public goods and services which protected areas provide.
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Financing Protected Areas Task Force
IUCN, Economics Unit
University of Cardiff, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
The attention given to landscape in environmental law is new and the subject raises a series of interesting problems, which were highlighted at a Colloquium. Its central theme was the draft European Landscape Convention prepared by the Council of Europe, the first of its kind.
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL)
IUCN, Environmental Law Programme
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Société française pour le droit de l'environnement, FR
Over 600 protected area agencies world-wide were surveyed on their budgets and staffing levels. From the 108 countries surveyed it emerged that budgetary provision was very uneven - ranging from $24 to $12,308 per km2.
Arbritary national boundaries do not define the extent of landscapes and ecosystems worthy of protection. They do, however, influence the quality of nature conservation as this is affected by differences in national legislation on different sides of the border.
Author(s):
Brunner, Robert
Organization(s):
Austria, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie
Creation and effective management of marine protected areas (MPAs) have lagged behind those of protected areas on land, but they are just as important. The world urgently needs a comprehensive system of MPAs to conserve biodiversity and to help rebuild the productivity of the oceans.
Author(s):
Kelleher, Graeme
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Coastal Zone Management Centre, NL
Cardiff University, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
The outcome of a workshop to discuss collaborative management in the Asian context, and to review the related legislative framework, strengths, weaknesses and institutional capacity.
Author(s):
Oli, Krishna Prasad
Organization(s):
IUCN Nepal
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
IUCN, Asia Regional Biodiversity Programme
King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation
Nepal, Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation
This landmark publication builds on previous work between IUCN/WCPA and the European Commission and addresses the key protected area policy issues and needs of the ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific) countries.
Author(s):
Howe, Sylvia
Synge, Hugh
Organization(s):
European Commission, Directorate-General for Development
Visitors to parks and protected areas impact at many levels: political, economic, social and ecological. To ensure effective park management for increasing visitor numbers, good quality global data on visitor use is necessary.
Author(s):
Eagles, Paul F. J.
Hornback, Kenneth E.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Canada, Parks Canada
Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism
The South Asia Regional Action Plan was prepared through a collective effort by all countries in the region, and represents an agreed view of regional priorities, addressing such topics as training, transboundary protected areas and community involvements in protected areas management.
In 1994, IUCN launched Parks for life: Action for Protected Areas in Europe - a plan devised by IUCN with 200 partners to ensure an adequate, effective and well-managed network of protected areas in Europe.
Assesses the role of the MAB Programme in promoting biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, based on the outcome of a workshop held at the 1st World Conservation Congress, 1996. Included are several key papers which demonstrate experiences from around the world.
A system plan is the design of a total reserve system covering the full range of ecosystems and communities found in a particular country, identifying the range of purposes of protected areas and the relationships among the system components (i.e.
Author(s):
Davey, Adrian G.
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
University of Cardiff, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
This new edition reveals a global network of over 30,000 protected areas designated under national legislation which covers 13.2 million square kilometres of land, freshwater and sea, an area larger than Canada, and accounts for nearly 8 per cent of the world's land area, as well as 1.5 million s
