The world’s more than 200 000 protected areas come
in many forms, on land and at sea, and occur in every
country (Bertzky et al. 2012). They are places that people
establish to conserve natural and cultural heritage and
to sustain their benefits for society. Among other values,
protected areas allow people to connect with nature for
their inspiration, education, wellbeing and recreation.
While protecting ecosystems that are essential for life,
they can support human livelihoods and aspirations
and offer nature-based solutions for the complex
challenges faced by the world today. Contemporary
systems of protected areas include a great variety of
areas established over generations by diverse actors and
for many purposes, yet they have some very important
features in common, regardless of their origins or their
direction. The International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN) definition of a protected area creates a
common framework for understanding the essence of
the governance and management regimes that are at
the heart of every protected area as a ‘clearly defined
geographical space, recognised, dedicated and managed,
through legal or other effective means, to achieve
the long-term conservation of nature with associated
ecosystem services and cultural values’ (Dudley 2008:8).
This book has been prepared as a contribution to the
IUCN World Parks Congress in Sydney in 2014. The
global community is at the interface of ensuring the
quality of protected area governance and management,
together with the way that effectively managed and
equitably governed protected areas systems can support
society to meet current and future challenges. Resources
that support capacity development are a crucial
component of the value chain to enable competent
professionals and effective institutions to achieve
satisfactory outcomes. It is our hope that this learning
resource will be an excellent foundation for the major
enterprise in capacity development that must follow—
one of the important outcomes of the IUCN World
Parks Congress contributing to ‘The Promise of Sydney’.
Author(s): Graeme L Worboys; Michael Lockwood; Ashish Kothari; Sue Feary; & Ian Pulsford, (eds.)
Publisher: The Australian National University (ANU)
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 966+xxvi
City: Canberra
Tags: Protected areas--Management--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Conservation of natural resources--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Natural resource management areas--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Nature conservation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Preliminary pages
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
The Editors
Foreword
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Concept , Purpose and Challenges
Chapter 3. Earth ’s Natural Heritage
Chapter 4. Earth ’s Cultural heritage
Chapter 5. Social and Economic Influences Shaping Protected Areas
Chapter 6. Values and Benefits of Protected Areas
Chapter 7. Governance for the Conservation of Nature
Chapter 8. Managing Protected areas
Chapter 9. Capacity development
Chapter 10. Benefiting from Complexity Thinking
Chapter 11. Knowledge Generation, Acquisition and Management
Chapter 12. Leadership and executive management
Chapter 13. Planning
Chapter 14. Engagement and Participation in Protected Area Management: Who, wh y, how and when?
Chapter 15. The Media and protected
Chapter 16. Managing Threats
Chapter 17. Climate Change and Protected Areas
Chapter 18. Geoconservation in Protected Areas
Chapter 19. Managing Freshwater, River, Wetland and Estuarine Protected Areas
Chapter 20. Marine Protected Area Management
Chapter 21. Managing Protected Areas for Biological Diversity and Ecosystem Functions
Chapter 22. Managing Cultural Uses and Features
Chapter 23. Visitor Management
Chapter 24. Managing Operation sand Assets
Chapter 25. Managing Resource Use and Development
Chapter 26. Managing Incidents
Chapter 27. Connectivity Conservation Management
Chapter 28. Protected Area Management Effectiveness
Chapter 29. Conclusion
Index
