Emerging Trends in Conservation Funding and Financing of Protected Areas

A special issue of Conservation (ISSN 2673-7159).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 523

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College of Sustainability and Tourism, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, 1-1 Jumonjibaru, Beppu, Oita 874-8577 Japan
Interests: sustainability; human geography; environmental policy; nature-based tourism

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Centre for Interdisciplinary Social Research, Phenikaa University, Yen Nghia Ward, Ha Dong District, Hanoi 100803, Vietnam
Interests: environmental psychology; conservation social science; environmental finance; sustainability; urban studies

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Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 111 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 1138657, Japan
Interests: planning; management; protected areas; forest environmental education; tourism; national parks

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, developed during the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15), has proposed 23 targets to be achieved by 2030. These include the effective conservation and management of at least 30% of terrestrial and inland water areas (including seas and coastlines), which are designated Protected Areas (PAs).

This “30 by 30” commitment to expand the monitoring and management of PAs will place extra pressure on funding bodies already experiencing crises in terms of funds available and their effective dispersal.

This Special Issue, therefore, welcomes submissions that will help to expand our collective and conventional understanding of the financial mechanisms set up to support PAs (e.g., government subsidies, international aids, voluntary donation, fee collection systems, taxes and park revenues, etc.)

Applicable funding and financing strategies are not limited to conventional sources and conditions that contribute to or hinder the funding and financing of PAs; they may also include emerging ones (e.g., crowdfunding, green bonds, conservation trust funds, biodiversity offsets, credit and trading systems, etc.) that function on a number of levels from macro-economic policy to individual willingness to pay on the part of (potential) PA visitors.

Prof. Dr. Thomas E. Jones
Dr. Minh Hoang Nguyen
Dr. Kiyotatsu Yamamoto
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Keywords

  • protected areas
  • biodiversity conservation
  • government subsidies
  • voluntary donation
  • fee collection systems
  • crowdfunding
  • green bonds
  • biodiversity offsets

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