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Change the IUCN protected area categories to reflect biodiversity outcomes. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2008 Current classifications of IUCN protected areas are based on management objectives. Fully revising the category system to reflect each category's contributions to biodiversity would greatly enhance their value as effective tools for conserving biodiversity.
Luigi Boitani +8 more
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Cautionary thoughts on IUCN protected area management categories V–VI
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015 The debate about the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) protected area management categories V–VI has been ongoing since the mid-1990s. Even though these two categories were officially adopted at the Fifth World Parks Congress in
Craig L. Shafer
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Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes, 2023 Protected areas (PA) have been considered as biodiversity conservation hub across the globe. The conventional “top-down” management approach has been failed to ensure resource sustainability in many PA.
Kazi Mohammad Masum +6 more
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The revised IUCN protected area management categories: the debate and ways forward [PDF]
Oryx, 2010 AbstractThe global protected area estate is the world’s largest ever planned land use. Protected areas are not monolithic and vary in their purpose, designation, management and outcomes. The IUCN protected area category system is a typology based on management objectives.
Dudley, N +3 more
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Global patterns of forest loss across IUCN categories of protected areas
Biological Conservation, 2020 Abstract Forests are under increasing pressure globally and the establishment of protected areas has long been used as a conservation tool to preserve them. Seven categories of protected areas have been defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) with different management objectives and protection levels.
Roxanne Leberger +4 more
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IUCN management categories fail to represent new, multiple-use protected areas in Madagascar [PDF]
Oryx, 2011 AbstractThe IUCN protected area management category system provides an internationally-recognized, unifying framework for the description and classification of the world’s diverse protected areas. It includes six main categories, of which category V has attracted debate because of its emphasis on the role of harmonious people–nature interactions in ...
Charlie J. Gardner
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Biophilic design. Prishtina natural landscape restoration according to IUCN categories in Urban protected areas [PDF]
The Scientific Journal of the Observatory of Mediterranean Basin, 2019 Prishtina is the capital and the most populated city of Kosova with high air pollution and water contamination. Landscape restoration as a sustainable strategy in management and rescue the ecology and environment in this area is a fundamental approach and has various benefits in social, economic and environmental categories.
Sara Pouryousefzadeh
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PARKS, 2013 Many Pacific island nations lag behind more developed countries with respect to achieving Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) targets for protected area coverage. The modified definition of protected areas under the IUCN’s 2008 Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories offers opportunities for Pacific islands nations to formally
Hugh Govan, Stacy Jupiter
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Guidelines for applying the IUCN protected area management categories to marine protected areas
, 2019 The development of this second edition of these guidelines was in part a response to evidence of the widespread incorrect application of the categories to marine protected areas (MPAs). Marine management and sustainable fisheries management are critical elements of good oceans management, but are not the same as protected areas management, where the ...
Jon Day
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Application of IUCN Category Regarding the Designation of Overlapping Protected Areas
Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment, 2014 The purpose of this study is to seek the application of IUCN categories of overlapping protected areas which is legally designated in South Korea. Different government departments in South Korea have managed and designated as protected areas. However, the protected areas due to different management agencies can be confused with restricting behaviors ...
Sung Ho Kil +6 more
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