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Assessing Protected Area Management Effectiveness: the Need for a Wetland-Specific Evaluation Tool
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat was developed in 1971, and has established the world’s...
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Management effectiveness and conservation prioritizing the protected areas using RAPPAM methodology (case study: Khuzestan province)
In the world today, where the industrialization of countries is still on the increase, protecting habitats and wildlife will be possible only in...
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Protected Area Effectiveness: What Is It and How to Assess It?
Different studies have shown that, despite the rise in PA numbers and coverage worldwide, the global deterioration of biodiversity has not been...
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BREMi—A New Tool for the Evaluation of UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Management Effectiveness: Case-study in the Arab Man and Biosphere (ArabMAB) Regional Network
Scholars and practitioners have been striving to develop straightforward and effective tools to measure protected area management effectiveness...
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Evaluation of the Impact of Policymakers’ Decisions in the Management Capacity of Protected Areas: Efficiency Evidence from Five Countries
Protected areas play an important role in biodiversity conservation and tourism. Significant efforts have been made to increase the amount of...
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The evaluation of environmental, economic and social services of national parks
One of the most effective factors in the sustainability of national parks (NPs) is the identification and determination criteria and indicators of...
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Evaluating the management effectiveness of protected areas in Mongolia using the management effectiveness tracking tool
The importance of management increases in the context of numerous and intensive inner and outer pressures on Protected Areas (PAs). The need to...
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Sustainable Hydropower: Using Ecosystem-based Adaptation to Increase Local Adaptation Capacity in Brazil
Recent observed changes in climate patterns in Brazil has increased the importance of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in order to reduce the effects...
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Expanding Staff Voice in Protected Area Management Effectiveness Assessments within Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve
The concept of protected areas (PA) is one of the most widely used policy tools for biodiversity conservation including habitat and wildlife...
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Simulation of the spatial stresses due to territorial land development on Yellow River Delta Nature Reserve using a GIS-based assessment model
This study aimed at assessing the stresses from land development in or around Yellow River Delta Nature Reserve (YRDNR) and identifying the impacted...
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Do Global Indicators of Protected Area Management Effectiveness Make Sense? A Case Study from Siberia
Driven by the underperformance of many protected areas (PAs), protected area management effectiveness (PAME) evaluations are increasingly being...
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Evaluating the Management Effectiveness of Five Protected Areas in Taiwan Using WWF’s RAPPAM
This study adopts and modifies the WWF Rapid assessment and prioritization of protected areas management methodology (RAPPAM) to evaluate the...
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The Role of Protected Areas for Conserving Biodiversity and Reducing Poverty
The practice of setting lands aside for the preservation of natural and cultural heritage, sometimes in the face of a perceived threat to that site...
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A Global Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectiveness
We compiled details of over 8000 assessments of protected area management effectiveness across the world and developed a method for analyzing results...
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Evaluating the last remnants of Butea monosperma (Lam.) Kuntze Forest for their in situ conservation: a case study
This paper provides a suitable framework for consolidating knowledge and providing a useful starting point to undertake conservation of the last...
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Accountability, Reporting, or Management Improvement? Development of a State of the Parks Assessment System in New South Wales, Australia
Management effectiveness evaluation has been recognized as an important mechanism for both reporting on and improving protected area management. The...
