ASSESSING AND ABATING KEY THREATS

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Ervin, J. 2003a. Rapid Assessment of Protected Area Management Effectiveness in Four Countries. BioScience 53(9): 833-841.

Stedman-Edwards, P. 2000. “A framework for analyzing biodiversity loss” in The Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss.  A. Woods, P. Stedman-Edwards and J. Mang, eds. London: Earthscan.

Margoluis, R. and N. Salafsky. 1999.  “Threat Reduction Assessment: a Practical and Cost-Effective Approach to Evaluating Conservation and Development Projects.”  Conservation Biology 13 (4), 830–841.

Worboys, G, C. Winkler and M. Lockwood. 2006. Managing Protected Areas. Eds M. Lockwood, G. Worboys and A. Kothari. London: Earthscan.

Guides, tools and methods

Ervin, J. 2003b. “Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management (RAPPAM).” Gland, Switzerland: WWF.  61 pp.

Margoluis, R. and N. Salafsky. 2001. Is our project succeeding? A guide to Threat Reduction Assessment for conservation.Washington, D.C.: Biodiversity Support Program. 54 pp.

Case studies, reports and PDF downloads

Dudley, N., A. Belokurov, L. Higgins-Zogib, M. Hockings and S. Stolton. 2007. “Tracking progress in managing protected areas around the world.” Gland, Switzerland: WWF. 29 pp.

Ervin, J. and J. Parrish. 2006. “Toward a Framework for Conducting Ecoregional Threats Assessments.” In: Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium: Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere Proceedings, C. Aguirre-Bravo, J. P. Pellicane, P. D. Burns, and S. Draggan, eds. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 105-112

IUCN. 1999. Threats to Forest Protected Areas: Summary of a survey of 10 countries. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. Unpublished paper, 46 pp.

Prato, T. 2003. Alleviating Multiple Threats to Protected Areas with Adaptive Ecosystem Management: The Case of Waterton–Glacier International Peace Park. George Wright Forum 20(4): 41-52.

Theobald, D., N. Peterson, J. Terlaak and G. Wilcox. 2004. Mapping and assessment of protected areas and broadscale threats in the shortgrass prairie of Colorado. A report to the Colorado Division of Wildlife. Boulder, CO: Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University. Unpublished paper, 20pp.

Websites

Coming soon: Threat-specific resources

Invasive species

De Poorter, M. 2007. Invasive Alien Species and Protected Areas: A scoping report.  Cambridge, UK: IUCN. Working paper, 93 pp.

Tourism

Eagles, P., S. McCool and C. Haynes. 2002. Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas: Guidelines for Planning and Management. IUCN Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. xv + 183pp.

Eagles, P., M. Bowman, and T. Tao. 2001. Guidelines for Tourism in Parks and Protected Areas of East Asia. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 99 pp.