Story | 10 11月, 2015

Parks Journal 21.2 November 2015

Edited by Sue Stolton and Nigel Dudley, Equilibrium Research and IUCN WCPA.

Photo: WCPA

The journal's aim of building global knowledge and best practice in protected area management is ably met this issue with papers from Africa (Ghana/Zambia), North America and South America (Paraguay), Asia (India/Nepal) and Australia. Issues are diverse covering Indigenous protected areas, buffer zone and local community management, tourism, reptilian conservation and the urgent need to connect people to nature.

Editorial: To go, or not to go? What are the business attitudes to the philosophy of no-go policies and protected areas
Nigel Dudley, Marc Hockings and Bas Verschuuren

Building a culture of conservation: Research findings and research priorities on connecting people to nature in parks
Pamela A. Wright and Carling Mathews

Perceptions and attitudes of local communities towards Kafue National Park, Zambia
Ngawo Namukonde and Rhoda N. Kachali

Institutional analysis of multi-level collaborative management in Periyar Tiger Reserve, Southern India
John W. K. Parr

Determinants of tourism attractiveness in the national parks of Brazil
Ernesto Viveiros de Castro, Thiago Beraldo Souza and Brijesh Thapa

Buffer zone management issues in Chitwan National Park, Nepal: A case study of Kolhuwa Village Development Committee
Bhuwan Dhakal and Brijesh Thapa

Indigenous Protected Areas and ICCAs: Commonalities, contrasts and confusions
Dermot Smyth

Assessing the socio-economic stressors of Ghana’s only strict reserve: Kogyae
Jesse S. Ayivor and Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu

Conservation implications of protected areas’ coverage for Paraguay’s reptiles
Pier Cacciali, Hugo Cabral and Alberto A. Yanosky

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