Speaking a Common Language: Uses and performance of the IUCN System of Management Categories for Protected Areas (2004)

An international system of protected area categories In 1994, after several decades of development, IUCN – The Conservation Union and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) published Guidelines for Protected Area Management Categories, in English, French and Spanish1 – guidance on the on...

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Source https://resources.unep-wcmc.org/products/WCMC_RT371
Author UNEP-WCMC
Maintainer UNEP-WCMC
Last Updated March 9, 2023, 14:16 (UTC)
Created March 9, 2023, 12:15 (UTC)
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citation Bishop, K. Dudley, N. Phillips, A. And Stolton, S. (2004) Speaking a Common Language: Uses and performance of the IUCN System of Management Categories for Protected Areas (2004). Cambridge, England, UK.https://resources.unep-wcmc.org/products/WCMC_RT370
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short_description This report provides an overview of the use of Management Categories for Protected Areas. It looks at the emergence of the system of protected area management categories, the original purposes of the system and new uses being made of it. Suggestions are made as to how the system can be used more effectively. Finally there is a set of recommendations, along with a vision as to the place of the categories in the future.