Making Parks Work
Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature
Most scientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biodiversity in those regions. Rather than giving up on parks that are foundering, ways must be found to strengthen them, and Making Parks Work offers a vital contribution to that effort. Focusing on the "good news" -- success stories from the front lines and what lessons can be taken from those stories -- the book gathers experiences and information from thirty leading conservationists into a guidebook of principles for effective management of protected areas. The book:
- offers a general overview of the status of protected areas worldwide
- presents case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia written by field researchers with long experience working in those areas
- analyzes a variety of problems that parks face and suggests policies and practices for coping with those problems
- explores the broad philosophical questions of conservation and how protected areas can -- and must -- resist the mounting pressures of an overcrowded world
Contributors include Mario Boza, Katrina Brandon, K. Ullas Karanth, Randall Kramer, Jeff Langholz, John F. Oates, Carlos A. Peres, Herman Rijksen, Nick Salafsky, Thomas T. Struhsaker, Patricia C. Wright, and others.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Part I Introduction
1. Why the World Needs Parks
2. Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Problems and
Potential
3. The History of Protection: Paradoxes of the Past and Challenges for
the Future
Part II Case Studies
4. Scenes from the Front Lines of Conservation
Africa
5. West Africa: Tropical Forest Parks on the Brink
6. Parks in the Congo Basin: Can Conservation and Development Be
Reconciled?
7. Conservation in Anarchy: Key Conditions for Successful Conservation
of the Okapi Faunal Reserve
8. Strategies for Conserving Forest National Parks in Africa with a Case
Study from Uganda
9. Making a Rain Forest National Park Work in Madagascar: Ranoma-
fana National Park and Its Long-term Research Commitment
Latin America
10. Expanding Conservation Area Networks in the Last Wilderness
Frontiers: The Case of Brazilian Amazonia
11. The National Sanctuary Pampas del Heath: Case Study of a Typical
""Paper Park"" under Management of an NGO
12. Successes and Failings of the Monteverde Reserve Complex and Costa
Rica's System of National Protected Areas
13. Privatey Owned Parks
Asia
14. Nagarahole: Limits and Opportunities in Wildlife Conservation
15. Conserving the Leuser Ecosystem: Politics, Policies, and People
16. Conservation of Protected Areas in Thailand: A Diversity of
Problems, a Diversity of Solutions
17. Biodiversity Conservation in the Kingdom of Bhutan
Part III Themes
18. Overcoming Impediments to Conservation
Park Level
19. Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Southern Asia
20. Enforcement Mechanisms
21. Ecotourism Tools for Parks
22. The Problem of People in Parks
National Level
23. Political Will for Establishing and Managing Parks
24. The Role of the Private Sector in Protected Area Establishment
and Management
25. Anarchy and Parks: Dealing with Political Instability
International Level
26. Financing Protected Areas
27. Internationalization of Nature Conservation
General Tools
28. Monitoring Protected Areas
29. Breaking the Cycle: Developing Guiding Principles for Using
Protected Area Conservation Strategies
30. The Frontier Model of Development and Its Relevance to Protected
Area Management
Part IV Conclusions
31. Putting the Right Parks in the Right Places
32. Making Parks Work: Past, Present, and Future
List of Contributors
Index"
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