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OUTPUTS
OF THE CONGRESS
Managing
Protected Areas in the 21st Century
The Protected Area "User Manual"
Concept
Objectives
Specifications
Target Audience
Structure and Content
Project Management
The
Protected Area "User Manual" Concept
The
World Parks Congress in Durban South Africa September 2003 will
be an important milestone in the evolution and development
of protected area management philosophy, principles and practice.
An extraordinary amount of protected area management information
will be generated for the Congress. Even more exciting and useful
information will be generated at the actual workshop streams and
other Congress sessions
as well as the all important Durban Accord,
a statement arising from the Congress that will guide and influence
protected area management into the future. Add to this the best
practice and other information
IUCN WCPA has systematically generated over many years and there
will be at one point in time, a collection of information of enormous
potential to help protected area management practitioners.
IUCN WCPA plans to ensure
that this information is assembled and made available for park managers
and others. The vision is simple. A "protected area user
manual" will be created following the Congress as a single
unified text. It will be a clear, cohesive, practical and an integrated
publication that will provide essential information to underpin
the effective management of terrestrial and marine protected areas
in the 21st Century.
IUCN WCPA has provided
a name for this "Users Manual". It will be titled Managing
Protected Areas in the 21st Century, and is programmed to be
completed as early as possible after the Congress. The product will
be an IUCN WCPA book. It will be managed so that it can be web-accessible
and can be generated in a CD-ROM format. It will be clearly distinguishable
from other Durban Congress products including the State
of the World Parks report and the UN
list of National Parks.
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Objectives
of "Managing Protected Areas in the 21st
Century"
The publication will
have regard to the following objectives:
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Specifications
for "Managing Protected Areas in the 21st
Century"
The publication will:
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Be
written in a style that combines accessibility, rigour and interest |
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Be
richly illustrated (with highly relevant photographs, maps,
figures and tables) |
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Include
a wealth of rich practical protected area management advice
and practical examples (including a wide cross-section of case
studies) |
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Be
a reference document of benefit to protected area managers and
others throughout the world |
It will be a published
as an A4 book. The publication will:
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Be approximately
450 pages including annexures |
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Be illustrated
with colour photographs, figures, tables and backgrounders |
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Include
a range of context setting maps potentially including: |
Political boundaries |
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Global biomes |
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Global areas of species
richness (and how pa's help protect these areas) |
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Global maps illustrating
routes of migratory species (and how a network of pa's assist
these species) |
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Protected
areas of the world |
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World
Heritage Areas |
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Ramsar
Areas |
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World
Biosphere Reserves |
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Continental scale
conservation corridors |
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Transboundary protected
areas |
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International peace
parks |
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Protected areas subject
to conflict |
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Include
schedules of the Protected Area Agencies of the world as of
2003 |
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Include
schedules of World Biosphere Reserves, World Heritage Areas,
and Ramsar Areas |
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Include
schedules of Countries who are signatory to global Conventions
including Biodiversity, World Heritage and others |
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Include
a schedule on the historical evolution of the concept of protected
areas |
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Target
Audience and scope for "Managing Protected Areas in the 21st
Century"
The publication is targeted
for protected area management agencies, managers, local communities,
students, government policy makers and other key stakeholders globally
The publication will be designed:
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To
be of benefit for protected areas in developed and developing
nations |
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To
be apolitical |
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To
be representative of a wide range of protected area types located
within a wide range of biomes |
Great care will be taken
to ensure that the publication is designed consistent with the following
principles:
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It
is representative, (as much as possible) of the range of the
protected areas and protected area systems found throughout
the world |
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It is inclusive of the key aspects of protected area management
that exist in the world in the 21st Century |
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It
is illustrative of the guiding principles of protected area
management in the 21st Century |
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It
accounts for strengths and weaknesses of present protected area
systems as a basis for management improvements |
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It
provides an account of the full cross-section of protected area
management skills information required by protected area managers |
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It
accounts for the variation in regional issues and approaches
to protected area management issues |
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Structure and Content of "Managing Protected Areas in the 21st
Century"
The publication will
consist of at least three parts.
The final publication
content may include topics which include:
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Part
A: Global Protected Areas in the 21st Century: Establishing
the Context |
| 1. The planet earth-nature |
| 2. The planet earth-culture
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| 3. The planet earth
in the 21st Century-condition, pressures and changes |
| 4. The concept and
purpose of protected areas in the 21st Century |
| 5. The concept and
purpose of management |
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Part
B: 21st Century Protected Area Management, Principles
and Practice |
| 6. Sustainable
Management |
| 7. Information
Management |
| 8. Establishment
of Protected aAreas |
| 9. Protected
Area pPlanning |
| 10.
Protected Area gGovernance/Administration |
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Capacity Building |
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Economics of Protected Area |
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Natural Heritage Management |
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Cultural Heritage mManagement |
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Threats to Protected Areas |
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Incident Management |
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Tourism and rRecreation Management |
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Interpretation and Education |
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Working with the Community |
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Indigenous People and Protected aAreas |
| 21 Integrated
Conservation Management, Landscape Scale Management and Trans-boundary
Management |
| 22.
Marine protected area management |
| 23. Effectiveness
of protected area management |
| 24. Protected
Areas and the Future |
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Part
C: Schedules |
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Project Management of "Managing Protected Areas in the 21st
Century"
IUCN WCPA has commissioned
the author team (Graeme
Worboys, Deputy
Vice Chair Mountains, Dr Mike Lockwood, University
of Tasmania; and, Professor
Terry De Lacy, University
of Queensland) who produced the very successful 2001
Oxford University Published (Australian) text, "Protected
Area Management, Principles and Practice".
It is proposed that there
will be an executive editorial team comprising:
It is proposed that there
will be a collaborative reference group as well as editorial advisors
potentially including:
The book is programmed
to be completed by the end of 2005
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