Management

A Basic Guide to Protected Area Management Plans

How does one incorporate climate change into a protected area management plan?  Incorporating climate change components into protected area planning is a relatively new field and for some practitioners has not been considered in management planning or implementation.

Samoa

Most of us try to plan the day ahead and perhaps for longer periods into the future.  We desire certain things for ourselves and families, and plan to address those needs and outcomes.  Private businesses plan ahead to achieve desirable profits and losses.  Militaries develop various contingency plans for certain scenarios.  Public agencies and private organisations plan for emergencies and evacuations.  Urban planning has been around for a long time, making plans for how a city should use space, resources and so forth.  So, planning in various forms is somethi

How thick should a management plan be?  To be sure, there are some thick plans out there heavy enough for use as a door stop.  Seriously, a management plan is as thick as it needs to be based upon near term (10-15 years) management needs, legal and regulatory complexity, the environmental setting of the protected area, social and economic issues, resources at the disposal of the team developing the plan, and other factors.  In wealthy nations such as the USA, there are abundant resources to develop detailed management plans, a Cadillac version if you will.  The U.S.

King, M., Passfield, K. and Ropeti, R.  2001. Management of Village Fisheries: Samoa’s Community-based Management Strategy.

Lee, T. and Middleton, J. 2003. Guidelines for Management Planning of Protected Areas.  IUCN Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

King, M, Lambeth, L. 2000. Fisheries Management By Communities: A Manual on Promoting the Management of Subsistence Fisheries by Pacific Island Communities. Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia.