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Parks and Protected Areas: Mobilizing Knowledge for Effective Decision-Making

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July 2021
250 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-1072-9 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-1073-6 (PDF)
https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-1073-6
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This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Parks and Protected Areas: Mobilizing Knowledge for Effective Decision-Making that was published in

Business & Economics
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Summary

Parks and protected areas provide important services to nature and society. Park managers make difficult decisions to achieve their diverse mandates, and need current, relevant, and rigorous information. However, effective use of research provided by social scientists, natural scientists, local people, or Indigenous people is an ongoing challenge. Through case studies, this book examines knowledge mobilization in parks and protected areas, with a focus on successes and failures, barriers and enablers, diverse theoretical frameworks, and structural innovations. This book embraces the generation and use of knowledge, especially natural science, social science, local knowledge, and Indigenous knowledge, in relation to policy, planning, and management of parks and protected areas.

Format
  • Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
pastoral enclosures; vernacular architecture; minor rural buildings; art of dry-stone walling; indigenous and community conserved areas; Galicia; Cornwall; forestry heritage; heathland and grassland conservation; plant biodiversity; protected areas; knowledge governance; cross-scale management; knowledge systems; temporal dimensions; time; local tacit experiential knowledge; participatory mapping; conservation planning; connectivity conservation; wildlife movement pathways; ecological corridors; Yosemite National Park; ethnographic databases; ethnography; National Park Service; cultural resource management; tribal co-management; Southern Sierra Miwuk; Mono Lake Paiute; data sources; Indigenous knowledge; industrial development; semi-aquatic mammals; knowledge mobilization; protected areas; evidence-based decision making; Indigenous Knowledge; traditional knowledge; traditional ecological knowledge; subsistence, caribou; Iñupiat, Alaska; national parks; co-management; knowledge mobilization; social science; natural science; local knowledge; traditional knowledge; indigenous knowledge; parks and protected areas management; biosphere reserve; co-design; transdisciplinary practices; public participation geographic information system (PPGIS); softGIS; parks planning; Delta; structured decision-making; knowledge mobilization; protected areas; evidence; wildlife; management effectiveness; grizzly bears; decision-making; evidence-informed policy; social science; protected areas; Alberta Parks; research; n/a