Protected areas, conservation and resource capacity: Historical lessons for conservation from Western Australia's South Dandalup Reserve

Conservation and development Evidence from Thai protected areas

Protected areas are a key tool for conservation policy but their economic impacts are not well understood. This paper presents new evidence about the local effects of strictly protected areas in Thailand, combining data on socioeconomic outcomes from a poverty mapping study with satellite-based estimates of forest cover. The selective placement of protected areas is addressed by controlling for...

Conservation Biology: Beyond Marine Protected Areas

Socioeconomic and ecological analyses of eleven coral reef conservation efforts make clear that marine protected areas are not the answer, and that in fact support of local communities is far more important than some government mandated 'fishing closure'. Apparently there are marine 'paper parks' just as there are terrestrial 'paper parks'.

Protected areas and prospects for endangered species conservation in Canada.

Reserve networks figure prominently in conservation strategies that aim to reduce extinction rates. We tested the effectiveness of the current reserve network at protecting species at risk in Canada, where relatively extensive wilderness areas remain. We compared numbers of terrestrial species at risk included in existing reserves to randomly generated networks with the same total area and numb...

The conservation reserve in south-central Iowa

Uncertainty, resource exploitation, and conservation: lessons from history.

The r e are currently many plans for sustainable use or sustainable development that are founded upon scienti f ic information and consensus. Such ideas ref lect ignorance of the history of resource exploitation and misunderstanding of the possibility of achieving sc ient i f ic consensus concerning resources and the environment. Although there is considerable variation in detail, there i s rem...