Protected Area Governance and Management

Pittock, Jamie; Finlayson, Max; Arthington, Angela; Matthews, John; Roux, Dirk J.; Biggs, Harry; Blom, Esther; Flitcroft, Rebecca; Froend, Raymond H.; Harrison, Ian; Hermoso, Virgilio; Junk, Wolfgang J.; Kumar, Ritesh; Linke, Simon; Nel, Jeanne; Cunha, Cátia Nunes da; Pattnaik, Ajit K.; Pollard, Sharon; Rast, Walter; Thieme, Michele; Turak, Eren; Turpie, Jane; Niekerk, Lara Van; Willems, Daphne; Viers, Joshua H.

doi:10.22459/pagm.04.2015

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“…The principles from Durban are now widely accepted and appear in IUCN publications on governance (e.g. Borrini-Feyerabend et al, 2013) and most recently in the IUCN book Protected Area Governance and Management (Worboys et al, 2015). The principles are provided as a basis for assessing the quality of governance (Borrini-Feyerabend et al, 2013;Borrini-Feyerabend & Hill, 2015).…”

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Indicators for assessing good governance of protected areas: Insights from park managers in Western Australia

Shields¹,

Moore²,

Eagles³

2016

PARKS

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Effective management of protected areas relies on good governance. An assessment was undertaken using the standards provided by the United Nations Development Programme's characteristics of good governance for sustainable development as a starting point. Being able to assess governance based on indicators is essential for ongoing effective management through improving practice. Although indicators and evaluation frameworks are available, they do not offer protected area managers a quick, comprehensive measure of governance. We used a three-round Delphi method with a cohort of 33 managers and researchers from government and non-government organizations, and universities. This participatory research process established a set of 20 indicators addressing public participation, consensus orientation, strategic vision, responsiveness, effectiveness, efficiency, accountability, transparency, equity, and rule of law. Accompanying output measures were provided by management plans, annual reports, audits, and stakeholder engagement. The findings emphasize the contributions of management plans and annual reports in establishing evaluation requirements and providing a place where results are publicly available. Further participatory research to refine these indicators and apply them in a diversity of contexts is advocated.

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Section:  Principles Of Good Governancementioning

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Indicators for assessing good governance of protected areas: Insights from park managers in Western Australia

Shields¹,

Moore²,

Eagles³

2016

PARKS

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“…Many regions have adopted the IUCN's six-level protected area categorization (see Table 1 below), with a set of guiding principles common across categories, including that these areas should seek to retain and if possible to increase the natural condition of the ecosystem under protection (Worboys et al 2015).…”

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“…Worboys et al (2015) have identified supporting services (e.g., biodiversity maintenance and protection), provisioning services (e.g., water and food), regulating services (climate and natural hazards regulation), and cultural services (opportunities for recreation and tourism). Cultural services include esthetic values, inspiration for the arts, spiritual and cultural experiences, opportunities for peace and tranquility, and psychological wellbeing (e.g., Lemieux et al 2012;Hughes 2014;Worboys et al 2015). It is estimated that globally between now and 2050, there will be an increase from approximately fifty-four per cent of the world's population living in cities to seventy per cent (IUCN 2014).…”

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Understanding the conflicting values associated with motorized recreation in protected areas

Jones

Newsome

Macbeth

2015

Ambio

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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Parks Congress in 2014 reported that the quality of management of protected areas is crucial in halting the loss of the world's biodiversity and meeting global environmental challenges. However, increasingly high-impact activities, including motorized recreation are occurring in protected areas such as national parks, creating an ongoing clash of values and further compromising protected area management. This paper discusses the values of protected areas in the context of increasingly high-impact motorized usage, the impact of divergent values placed on green spaces such as national parks, and perceptions about these spaces. Given the changing global context of this millennium, and increasing populations requiring space for high-impact activities including motorized recreation, rethinking recreation in protected areas is needed. A protected area classification to accommodate high-impact activities away from vulnerable natural areas may assist in maintaining protected area quality.

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“…Source: Borrini-Feyerabend et al (2013) The management instruments range from international and local rules to provision of education programs and law enforcement. For example, management approaches include education of local communities, which can increase local knowledge about the value of the natural resources and landscape (Worboys, Lockwood, Kothari, Feary & Pulsford, 2015). To strengthen communication, education and public awareness, there is a need for programs ranging from basic trainings for local communities to specialised academic education for professionals.…”

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Environmental protection and local resident attitudes at early stages of tourism development

Rastegar¹

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In many developing countries, there are protected areas with very strong natural resources and tourism development potential but in a poor conservation condition. Many of these areas are at pre or early stages of tourism development. These protected areas face problems including shortages of financial resources and park staff, and difficulty in enforcing conservation laws. Strict conservation laws have limited local residents' access to the natural resources and created problems such as increased poaching, habitat destruction and local people-park conflicts. This study adopts a case study approach, choosing two villages in rural Iran that are located near protected areas, one with no tourism and one at the early stage of tourism. Both these villages are experiencing challenges in striving for environmental protection and community development in a remote area of the country.There is a growing body of literature that recognises the importance of local resident attitudes and local people-park relationship roles in achieving both conservation goals and sustainable tourism development in and around protected areas. It is also suggested that incentives from tourism have a pivotal role in positively affecting local resident attitudes to the environment and consequently their behaviour.However, a challenge in the tourism literature is that most of the studies on local resident attitudes to the environment were conducted at a certain stage of development and their results cannot be applied to other stages. Although the literature indicates that tourism revenues improve local resident attitudes towards the environment and conservation, with no study comparing attitudes before and after tourism development, it is unclear whether these positive attitudes are due to tourism benefits or whether the local resident attitudes were positive even before tourism development.It is also widely discussed and hypothesised in the tourism literature that people with positive environmental attitudes are more likely to support environmental conservation activities.Local resident attitudes towards conservation have generally been studied as a single variable in the tourism literature. Importantly the environmental literature suggests that local resident attitudes towards environmental conservation and their attitudes towards protected area management might be different and a distinction has been made in studying these attitudes as separate variables.Consequently, this study aims to investigate the differences between local resident attitudes towards the environment, protected area management (PAM) and tourism at two early stages of tourism development by comparing attitudes in a community that has no prior experience of tourism and a community at an early stage of tourism development. This involved developing six ii hypotheses to assess the association between the three variables within and across a non-tourism setting and a setting with some tourism development in the two case study villages.A survey instrument was designed to mea...

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Protected Area Governance and Management

Cited by 170 publications

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Indicators for assessing good governance of protected areas: Insights from park managers in Western Australia

Indicators for assessing good governance of protected areas: Insights from park managers in Western Australia

Understanding the conflicting values associated with motorized recreation in protected areas

Environmental protection and local resident attitudes at early stages of tourism development

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