Measuring impact of protected area management interventions: current and future use of the Global Database of Protected Area Management Effectiveness

Lauren Coad; Fiona Leverington; Kathryn Knights; Jonas Geldmann; April Eassom; Valerie Kapos; Naomi Kingston; Marcelo de Lima; Camilo Zamora; Ivon Cuardros; Christoph Nolte; Neil David Burgess; Marc Hockings

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Measuring impact of protected area management interventions: current and future use of the Global Database of Protected Area Management Effectiveness

Lauren Coad, Fiona Leverington, Kathryn Knights, Jonas Geldmann, April Eassom, Valerie Kapos, Naomi Kingston, Marcelo de Lima, Camilo Zamora, Ivon Cuardros, Christoph Nolte, Neil David Burgess, Marc Hockings

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Protected areas (PAs) are at the forefront of conservation efforts, and yet despite considerable progress towards the global target of having 17% of the world’s land area within protected areas by 2020, biodiversity continues to decline. The discrepancy between increasing PA coverage and negative biodiversity trends has resulted in renewed efforts to enhance PA effectiveness. The global conservation community has conducted thousands of assessments of protected area management effectiveness (PAME), and interest in the use of these data to helpmeasure the conservation impact of PAmanagement interventions is high. Here, we summarize the status of PAME assessment, review the published evidence for a link between PAMEassessment results and the conservation impacts of PAs, and discuss the limitations and future use of PAME data in measuring the impact of PAmanagement interventions on conservation outcomes.We conclude that PAME data,while designed as a tool for local adaptivemanagement, may also help to provide insights into the impact of PA management interventions from the local-to-global scale. However, the subjective and ordinal characteristics of the data present significant limitations for their application in rigorous scientific impact evaluations, a problem that should be recognized and mitigated where possible.

Original language	English
Article number	20140281
Journal	Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences
Volume	370
Issue number	1681
ISSN	0962-8436
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0281
Publication status	Published - 12 Oct 2015

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Coad, L., Leverington, F., Knights, K., Geldmann, J., Eassom, A., Kapos, V., Kingston, N., de Lima, M., Zamora, C., Cuardros, I., Nolte, C., Burgess, N. D., & Hockings, M. (2015). Measuring impact of protected area management interventions: current and future use of the Global Database of Protected Area Management Effectiveness. Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences, 370(1681), Article 20140281. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0281

Measuring impact of protected area management interventions: current and future use of the Global Database of Protected Area Management Effectiveness. / Coad, Lauren; Leverington, Fiona; Knights, Kathryn et al.
In: Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences, Vol. 370, No. 1681, 20140281, 12.10.2015.

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Coad, L, Leverington, F, Knights, K, Geldmann, J, Eassom, A, Kapos, V, Kingston, N, de Lima, M, Zamora, C, Cuardros, I, Nolte, C, Burgess, ND & Hockings, M 2015, 'Measuring impact of protected area management interventions: current and future use of the Global Database of Protected Area Management Effectiveness', Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions B. Biological Sciences, vol. 370, no. 1681, 20140281. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0281

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