A Methodical Framework for Climate Change-Adapted Management in Protected Areas

Wilke, Christian; Rannow, Sven

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“…Future attempts should be location specific and consider the local institutional, environmental, and social contexts (Watson et al. ; Wilke & Rannow ), and the adaptation alternatives should be frequently reassessed, based on a constant monitoring of the effects of climate change on PAs (Pressey et al. ).…”

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“…Climate-change adaptation measures for PAs are still poorly understood or implemented in Brazil and other tropical countries (but see Scarano and Ceotto [2015]). Future attempts should be location specific and consider the local institutional, environmental, and social contexts (Watson et al 2013;Wilke & Rannow 2014), and the adaptation alternatives should be frequently reassessed, based on a constant monitoring of the effects of climate change on PAs (Pressey et al 2014). Before tackling these challenges, the institutions in charge of the Brazilian governance system of PAs need to solve a number of more urgent and demanding issues, such as land tenure, illegal occupation of PAs, deforestation, fire risk, personnel shortage (maintenance, oversight, and administrative), and lack of resources for PA management.…”

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A climate‐change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for Brazil's protected areas

Lapola

Silva

Braga

et al. 2019

Conservation Biology

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Brazil hosts the largest expanse of tropical ecosystems within protected areas (PAs), which shelter biodiversity and support traditional human populations. We assessed the vulnerability to climate change of 993 terrestrial and coastal‐marine Brazilian PAs by combining indicators of climatic‐change hazard with indicators of PA resilience (size, native vegetation cover, and probability of climate‐driven vegetation transition). This combination of indicators allows the identification of broad climate‐change adaptation pathways. Seventeen PAs (20,611 km2) were highly vulnerable and located mainly in the Atlantic Forest (7 PAs), Cerrado (6), and the Amazon (4). Two hundred fifty‐eight PAs (756,569 km2), located primarily in Amazonia, had a medium vulnerability. In the Amazon and western Cerrado, the projected severe climatic change and probability of climate‐driven vegetation transition drove vulnerability up, despite the generally good conservation status of PAs. Over 80% of PAs of high or moderate vulnerability are managed by indigenous populations. Hence, besides the potential risks to biodiversity, the traditional knowledge and livelihoods of the people inhabiting these PAs may be threatened. In at least 870 PAs, primarily in the Atlantic Forest and Amazon, adaptation could happen with little or no intervention due to low climate‐change hazard, high resilience status, or both. At least 20 PAs in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, and Amazonia should be targeted for stronger interventions (e.g., improvement of ecological connectivity), given their low resilience status. Despite being a first attempt to link vulnerability and adaptation in Brazilian PAs, we suggest that some of the PAs identified as highly or moderately vulnerable should be prioritized for testing potential adaptation strategies in the near future.

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A climate‐change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for Brazil's protected areas

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Silva

Braga

et al. 2019

Conservation Biology

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“…Also Geyer et al [ 29 ] identified a serious lack of confidence in proactive and future-oriented thinking. Other obstacles associated with the most deficient principles identified in other studies include a lack of resources and manpower, established management habits that conflict with a systematic learning process, static and incoherent legislation as well as restrictive policies and terms of reference for certain protected areas [ 27 , 29 ]. Not questioning the changeability of such barriers (however difficult they might appear to overcome) may itself be considered an obstacle to the adaptation process [ 88 ].…”

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“…This would not only increase climate change-robustness, but also improve management planning in general, which in many cases is currently suffering from substantial deficiencies. Surely, the process of climate change adaptation needs to be tailored to the site and to local needs [ 27 , 74 ]. Nevertheless, general guidelines on climate change adaptation and specific principles for climate change-robust management can provide a framework into which protected area managers can fit their site-specific planning and actions.…”

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Assessing climate change-robustness of protected area management plans—The case of Germany

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Protected areas are arguably the most important instrument of biodiversity conservation. To keep them fit under climate change, their management needs to be adapted to address related direct and indirect changes. In our study we focus on the adaptation of conservation management planning, evaluating management plans of 60 protected areas throughout Germany with regard to their climate change-robustness. First, climate change-robust conservation management was defined using 11 principles and 44 criteria, which followed an approach similar to sustainability standards. We then evaluated the performance of individual management plans concerning the climate change-robustness framework. We found that climate change-robustness of protected areas hardly exceeded 50 percent of the potential performance, with most plans ranking in the lower quarter. Most Natura 2000 protected areas, established under conservation legislation of the European Union, belong to the sites with especially poor performance, with lower values in smaller areas. In general, the individual principles showed very different rates of accordance with our principles, but similarly low intensity. Principles with generally higher performance values included holistic knowledge management, public accountability and acceptance as well as systemic and strategic coherence. Deficiencies were connected to dealing with the future and uncertainty. Lastly, we recommended the presented principles and criteria as essential guideposts that can be used as a checklist for working towards more climate change-robust planning.

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A Methodical Framework for Climate Change-Adapted Management in Protected Areas

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A climate‐change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for Brazil's protected areas

A climate‐change vulnerability and adaptation assessment for Brazil's protected areas

Assessing climate change-robustness of protected area management plans—The case of Germany

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