4. Governance

Community Conserved Areas
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend and Nigel Dudley

Community Conserved Areas (CCAs) have been defined as:
“natural and modified ecosystems, including significant biodiversity, ecological functions and cultural values, voluntarily conserved by indigenous peoples and local and mobile communities through customary laws or other  effective means”.
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Private Protected Areas
Brent Mitchell
This paper relates to other submissions on governance and protected area categories, by focusing on one of four types of governance—private protected areas—arguably the only type that does not include ownership or direct control by a government of any kind.
Protected areas are owned and managed through private mechanisms in most of the world, and their number and extent are growing fast.  Often the result of local initiative and conducted without the direct intervention of government, they are not yet fully integrated in national conservation planning or reporting in many countries. The international system of protected area management categories historically emphasized the role of governments. Reflecting this, private protected areas are not as well understood globally as their contributions warrant. The current review of the categories represents an opportunity to recognize the full spectrum of protected area governance
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The “IUCN protected area matrix”—A tool towards effective protected area systems
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend
This paper reviews the understanding of the concept of “governance” of PAs emerging from the Vth WPC in Durban, the 7th COP of CBD and the IIId WCC, and governance’s fundamental descriptors:  “type” and “quality”.   It then illustrates the “IUCN protected area matrix” as a conservation tool with application at international, national and local level.

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Categories and Governance Tool
Nigel Dudley and Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend
Many governments and NGOs are seeking advice about which categories to apply in a given situation. This draft tool provides guidance for selecting both category and governance type.
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