Options For Guaranteeing the Effective Management of the World's Protected Areas

Dudley, Nigel; Hockings, Marc; Stolton, Sue

doi:10.1080/1523908042000320713

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“…Monitoring and evaluation can help planners and managers to assess the extent to which their plans have been implemented and resources have been conserved (Day et al 2002;Pullin and Knight 2005). Moreover, this evaluation process can provide important scientific evidence to help government and civil society track the effectiveness of nature reserves, which should be integral activities within reserve management (Danielsen et al 2000;Dudley et al 2004;Hockings 2003).…”

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“…Adequate and well-trained staff members can perform their management duties more effectively and are a basic condition for the efficient management of nature reserves (Dudley et al 2004Lacerda 2004). …”

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“…Although this trend of increasing conservation is welcome, there has been some debate as to its effectiveness, and concern has arisen that China may be establishing ''paper parks'' rather than achieving sustainable conservation outcomes (Liu et al 2003). There is increasing evidence of serious breakdowns in many protected-area systems (Stolton and Dudley 1999;Hockings et al 2004a;Dudley et al 2004;Fischer 2008). As a result, many individual protected areas are currently being degraded and destroyed (Liu et al 2001;Hockings 2003;Dudley et al 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is increasing evidence of serious breakdowns in many protected-area systems (Stolton and Dudley 1999;Hockings et al 2004a;Dudley et al 2004;Fischer 2008). As a result, many individual protected areas are currently being degraded and destroyed (Liu et al 2001;Hockings 2003;Dudley et al 2004). Protected areas can deliver environmental, social and economic benefits only if they are effectively managed (Hockings 2000).…”

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Assessment of the effectiveness of nature reserve management in China

Quan

Ouyang

et al. 2011

Biodivers Conserv

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Assessing the management effectiveness of nature reserves is an effective way to promote management quality and achieve management targets. Using a questionnaire developed by the World Bank (WB) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as a tool for tracking management effectiveness, we carried out a survey in 535 nature reserves in China to assess the management status quo in 2005. The results indicated that the indices related to management regulation, infrastructure and equipment, monitoring and evaluation, budget and community involvement produced relatively lower scores, while the indices related to management of protection targets and resources, setup of management agency and reserve boundary had better performances. The independent variables of reserve class, time since establishment, distribution region, economic condition and staff number exhibited strong correlations with the effective management of nature reserves. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to measure the association between the 3 assessment indices representing management effectiveness and other 28 assessment indices. Among these 28 assessment indices, the indices of personnel management, resource management, monitoring and evaluation, and management plan had more effects on the management effectiveness of nature reserves than other indices. When the most pressing management issues and influence factors have been identified, countermeasures can be implemented to improve the management of nature reserves.

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Assessment of the effectiveness of nature reserve management in China

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Ouyang

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Biodivers Conserv

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“…Obligation for data holders to publicly provide data US FOIA, Berlin and Budapest Declaration, UK Environmental Information Regulations Assurance of intellectual property rights and offering incentives for provision of data Creative commons license Standardization of evaluation procedures as essential elements in protected area management Self-reporting or certification systems (Dudley et al, , 2004 Decision-making reporting ISO standard system after Huettmann (2005) To foster financial and/or technical capacity building activities for collection, analysis, and use of monitoring data in protected areas (non-existing data)…”

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