Sustainable development requires improvement of both the quantity and quality of protected
areas (PAs). This paper reviews the assessments of PAs' effectiveness and provides further …

Protected areas (PAs) play an important role in biodiversity conservation and the
implementation of ambitious multilateral environmental agreements, like the 2010 targets of …

The Framework for management effectiveness developed by the IUCN World Commission
for Protected Areas was published in the first version of this Best Practice Guideline. It is …

We compiled details of over 8000 assessments of protected area management effectiveness
across the world and developed a method for analyzing results across diverse assessment …

Protected areas (PAs) are the most important conservation tool, yet assessing their
effectiveness is remarkably challenging. We clarify the links between the many facets of PA …

Concerns about the extent to which protected areas around the world have been able to
achieve the conservation and other objectives for which they were established has led to …

Draft for discussion| IUCN Library Sy… Evaluating management effectiveness: a framework
for evaluating management of protected areas.[...] Draft for discussion Complete Title: IUCN …

The management effectiveness of protected areas is a critically important consideration for
their conservation success. Over 40 different protected area management effectiveness …

To maximise the potential of protected areas, we need to understand the strengths and
weaknesses in their management and the threats and stresses that they face. There is …

Executive summary The Social Assessment of Protected Areas initiative was launched in
2008 and responds to the need for a relatively simple, low-cost methodology to assess the …