Evaluating Effectiveness

A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas 2nd Edition

Marc Hockings, Sue Stolton, Fiona Leverington, Nigel Dudley and José Courrau
Peter Valentine, Series Editor

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Front: © WWF-Canon/Frederick J. Weyerhaeuser

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IUCN Publications Services Unit

DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2005.PAG.14.en
ISBN-10: 2-8317-0939-3
ISBN-13: 978-2-8317-0939-0

Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 14

 

 

 

World Commission on Protected Areas


 Index

Executive Summary

Information for this Title

Preface

Acknowledgements

Definitions

Acronyms

Further Reading and Resources

1. Introduction to management effectiveness evaluation

2. Purposes and applications of management effectiveness evaluation

3. A Framework for evaluating management effectiveness

4. Applying the Framework

5. Analysing and communicating results of evaluation

6. The way forward: guidelines, needs and directions

Guidelines for evaluating management effectiveness of protected areas

7. Case studies

Case Study I Evaluation of marine protected areas in the Western Indian Ocean

Case Study II Rappam: Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management: a methodology for assessing protected area networks

Case Study III Evaluation of the protected area system of Catalonia, Spain

Case Study IV Enhancing our Heritage: monitoring and managing for success in natural World Heritage sites

Case Study V Management Effectiveness Evaluation of Finland's Protected Areas

Case Study VI World Bank/WWF Alliance Tracking Tool: reporting conservation progress at protected area sites

Case Study VII State of the Parks assessment: New South Wales, Australia

Appendix 1 Management effectiveness and the Convention on Biological Diversity's Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Appendix II Management effectiveness evaluation to support protected area management

References