Making Parks Work

by Terborgh, John; Van Schaik, Carel; Davenport, Lisa; Rao, Madhu

• ISBN13: 9781559639057
• ISBN10: 1559639059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Island Pr

Summary

Most scientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biodiversity in those regions. Rather than giving up on parks that are foundering, ways must be found to strengthen them, and Making Parks Workoffers a vital contribution to that effort. Focusing on the "good news" -- success stories from the front lines and what lessons can be taken from those stories -- the book gathers experiences and information from thirty leading conservationists into a guidebook of principles for effective management of protected areas. The book: offers a general overview of the status of protected areas worldwide presents case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia written by field researchers with long experience working in those areas analyzes a variety of problems that parks face and suggests policies and practices for coping with those problems explores the broad philosophical questions of conservation and how protected areas can -- and must -- resist the mounting pressures of an overcrowded worldContributors include Mario Boza, Katrina Brandon, K. Ullas Karanth, Randall Kramer, Jeff Langholz, John F. Oates, Carlos A. Peres, Herman Rijksen, Nick Salafsky, Thomas T. Struhsaker, Patricia C. Wright, and others.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xiii
List of Tables	xv
Preface	xvii
Part I Introduction
Why the World Needs Parks	3	(12)
John Terborgh
Carel van Schaik
Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Problems and Potential	15	(15)
Carel van Schaik
Herman D. Rijksen
The History of Protection: Paradoxes of the Past and Challenges for the Future	30	(23)
Lisa Davenport
Madhu Rao
Part II Case Studies
Scienes from the Front Lines of Conservation	53	(4)
Peter A. Frykholm
AFRICA
West Africa: Tropical Forest Parks on the Brink	57	(19)
John F. Oates
Parks in the Congo Basin: Can Conservation and Development Be Reconciled?	76	(10)
Caroline E. G. Tutin
Conservation in Anarchy: Key Conditions for Successful Conservation of the Okapi Faunal Reserve	86	(11)
Terese Hart
Strategies for Conserving Forest National Parks in Africa with a Case Study from Uganda	97	(15)
Thomas T. Strubsaker
Making a Rain Forest National Park Work in Madagascar: Ranomafana National Park and Its Long-term Research Commitment	112	(25)
Patricia C. Wright
Benjamin Andriamihaja
LATIN AMERICA
Expanding Conservation Area Networks in the Last Wilderness Frontiers: The Case of Brazilian Amazonia	137	(12)
Carlos A. Peres
The National Sanctuary Pampas del Health: Case Study of a Typical ``Paper Park'' under Management of an NGO	149	(7)
Fernando B. Rubio del Valle
Successes and Failings of the Monteverde Reserve Complex and Costa Rica's System of National Protected Areas	156	(16)
George V. N. Powell
Suzanne Palminteri
Bob Carlson
Mario A. Boza
Privately Owned Parks	172	(17)
Jeff Langholz
ASIA
Nagarahole: Limits and Opportunities in Wildlife Conservation	189	(14)
K. Ullas Karanth
Conserving the Leuser Ecosystem: Politics, Policies, and People	203	(15)
Michael Griffiths
Carel van Schaik
Herman D. Rijksen
Conservation of Protected Areas in Thailand: A Diversity of Problems, a Diversity of Solutions	218	(14)
Sompoad Srikosamatara
Warren Y. Brockelman
Biodiversity Conservation in the Kingdom of Bhutan	232	(11)
Herman D. Rijksen
Part III Themes
Overcoming Impediments to Conservation	243	(7)
John Terborgh
PARK LEVEL
Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Southern Asia	250	(15)
K. Ullas Karanth
M. D. Madhusudan
Enforcement Mechanisms	265	(14)
Warren Y. Brockelman
Michael Griffiths
Madhu Rao
Rosie Ruf
Nick Salafsky
Ecotourism Tools for Parks	279	(28)
Lisa Davenport
Warren Y. Brockelman
Patricia C. Wright
Karl Ruf
Fernando B. Rubio del Valle
The Problem of People in Parks	307	(13)
John Terborgh
Carlos A. Peres
NATIONAL LEVEL
Political Will for Establishing and Managing Parks	320	(15)
Marc J. Dourojeanni
The Role of the Private Sector in Protected Area Establishment and Management	335	(17)
Randall Kramer
Jeff Langholz
Nick Salafsky
Anarchy and Parks: Dealing with Political Instability	352	(12)
Carel van Schaik
INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
Financing Protected Areas	364	(19)
Barry Spergel
Internationalization of Nature Conservation	383	(12)
John Terborgh
Mario A. Boza
GENERAL TOOLS
Monitoring Protected Areas	395	(14)
John Terbourgh
Lisa Davenport
Breaking the Cycle: Developing Guiding Principles for Using Protected Area Conservation Strategies	409	(15)
Nick Salafsky
Richard Margoluis
The Frontier Model of Development and Its Relevance to Protected Area Management	424	(19)
Carel van Schaik
Madhu Rao
Part IV Conclusions
Putting the Right Parks in the Right Places	443	(25)
Katrina Brandon
Making Parks Work: Past, Present, and Future	468	(15)
Carel van Schaik
John Terborgh
Lisa Davenport
Madhu Rao
List of Contributors	483	(4)
Index	487