Evaluation of the Strategic Factors of the Management of Protected Areas using SWOT Analysis-Case Study: Bashgol Protected Area-Qazvin Province
18 December 2019
18 December 2019
The majority of Iranian protected areas are being affected by human activities. Such areas demand continuous monitoring into account due to quality loss problem. This study identifies the weaknesses and strengths as well as opportunities and threats of Bashgol protected area and analyzes them using SWOT matrix in order to...
Co-management of protected areas without local knowledge: a case study of Lawachara national park
18 December 2019
18 December 2019
This study assesses local knowledge and perceptions of biodiversity issues among members of specific co-management insistutions, and among local people who do not belong to these bodies. The study considers how local knowledge is incorporated into park management. The findings reveal that the current co-management Council and Committee members possess...
Policy and related issues pertaining community participation in the management of Protected Areas: A case of Pahang National Park, Malaysia.
18 December 2019
18 December 2019
This chapter examines the issue pertaining to the community participation in the PA with particular reference to Taman Negara Pahang. Interviews are conducted with local communities that are living in Pahang National Park, specifically in Kuala Tahan vicinity. The data analyzes three features to a community engagement process: (i) the...
Effect of Legal protection and management of protected areas at preventing land development: a Spanish case study
18 December 2019
18 December 2019
Using a semi-experimental BACI research design, this study assesses the environmental effectiveness of two highly related multiple-use protected area (PA) categories of European relevance at preventing land development: Sites of Community Importance (SCIs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs). By doing so, it intends to discriminate the effect of legal...
Protected Areas and Regional Development: An Austrian Case Study
18 December 2019
18 December 2019
The potential conflicts as well as synergies between Natura 2000 areas are rarely studied with respect to the marginal change of regional and local development brought about by conservation policies. This chapter presents empirical evidence on the linkages between Natura 2000 areas and local development in Austrian municipalities. The...
Solutions in Focus: Transboundary Protected Area Solutions
18 December 2019
18 December 2019
The benefits of transboundary conservation are numerous and obvious to those familiar with the negative impacts of fragmentation on ecosystem functionality. However, to successfully facilitate the cooperation required to achieve effective transboundary conservation, the process can be complex, costly and long. The Guidelines contain many transboundary conservation case study examples...
Compensatory Conservation Cases Studies - Forest Trends
18 December 2019
18 December 2019
This report aims to discuss the full spectrum of compensatory conservation activities undertaken by companies in the context of particular development projects. It covers not only biodiversity offsets that achieve net gain or no net loss of biodiversity, but also compensatory conservation measures, which provide some form of reparation...
Assessing the management effectiveness of a protected area system can enable policymakers to develop strategic, system wide responses to pervasive management problems. The World Wide Fund for Nature International has developed the Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management (RAPPAM) methodology. This article summarizes results from the implementation of...
Outcomes of three case studies in Indigenous Partnerships in Protected Area Management
18 December 2019
18 December 2019
This briefing paper presents a summary of the findings and recommendations arising out of three case studies of Indigenous partnerships in the management of protected areas in Australia. The case studies were commissioned by the Poola Foundation (Tom Kantor Fund) in response to a joint proposal by the Australian Collaboration...
Economic benefits generated by protected areas, the case of the Hoge Veluwe forest, the Netherlands
19 June 2014
19 June 2014
Eliciting the economic benefits provided by protected areas is important in order to ensure that they are properly considered in policy and decision making. There are relatively few studies that provide a comprehensive overview of the economic benefits provided by European forest ecosystems, in spite of the large share of...