Protected Area Governance And Management (paperback)

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’. Protected Area Governance and Management presents a compendium of original text, case studies and examples from across the world, by drawing on the literature, and on the knowledge and experience of those involved in protected areas. The book synthesises current knowledge and cutting-edge thinking from the diverse branches of practice and learning relevant to protected area governance and management. It is intended as an investment in the skills and competencies of people and consequently, the effective governance and management of protected areas for which they are responsible, now and into the future. The global success of the protected area concept lies in its shared vision to protect natural and cultural heritage for the long term, and organisations such as International Union for the Conservation of Nature are a unifying force in this regard. Nonetheless, protected areas are a socio-political phenomenon and the ways that nations understand, govern and manage them is always open to contest and debate. The book aims to enlighten, educate and above all to challenge readers to think deeply about protected areastheir future and their past, as well as their present. The book has been compiled by 169 authors and deals with all aspects of protected area governance and management. It provides information to support capacity development training of protected area field officers, managers in charge and executive level managers. ISBN (online): 9781925021691 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 "This book is about the governance and management of protected areas. It presents a compendium of original text, case studies and examples from across the world, by drawing on the literature, and on the knowledge and experience of those involved in protected areas. The book can be used as a reference text by protected area practitioners (including local communities) and professionals; in student teaching; for informing policy makers; and for wider public education. It is intended as an investment in the skills and competencies of people and consequently, the effective governance and management of protected areas for which they are responsible, now and into the future. The book synthesises current knowledge and cuttingedge thinking from the diverse branches of practice and learning relevant to protected area governance and management. Each of the book's 27 subject chapters explores a specific component of protected area governance and management, from the pragmatism of managing operations to the subtleties and nuances around the role of protected areas in poverty alleviation and social justice. Although each chapter is presented as a stand-alone resource, every component of managing and governing a protected area affects others - as with ecosystems that protected areas aim to conserve, everything is connected."--Box 1.1 A note from the editors

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