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Title: Management effectiveness evaluation in protected areas of southern Ecuador
Authors: López-Rodríguez, Fausto
Rosado, Daniel
Keywords: Biodiversity
Conservation of Natural Resources
Ecosystem
Ecuador
Environmental Policy
Forests
Humans
Planning Techniques
Private Sector
Ecuador
Biodiversity
Conservation
Economics
Environmental protection
Forestry
Leisure
Classifieds
Critical component
Economic growths
Ecuador
Effectiveness evaluation
Management effectiveness
National parks
Protected areas
Southern ecuador
Well being
economic analysis
economic growth
environmental management
national park
protected area
resource availability
socioeconomic status
sustainable development
tourism development
economic development
Ecuador
forest
human
inheritance
manager
national park
questionnaire
sustainable development
tourism
vegetation
biodiversity
ecosystem
Ecuador
environmental policy
environmental protection
organization and management
private sector
procedures
Sustainable development
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Academic Press
Abstract: Protected areas are home to biodiversity, habitats and ecosystem as well as a critical component of human well-being and a generator of leisure-related revenues. However, management is sometimes unsatisfactory and requires new ways of evaluation. Management effectiveness of 36 protected areas in southern Ecuador have been assessed. The protected areas belong to three categories: Heritage of Natural Areas of the Ecuadorian State (PANE), created and funded by the State, Areas of Forest and Protective Vegetation (ABVP), created but no funded by the State, and private reserves, declared and funded by private entities. Management effectiveness was evaluated by answers of managers of the protected areas to questionnaires adapted to the socio-economic and environmental characteristics of the region. Questions were classified into six elements of evaluation: context, planning, inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes as recommended by IUCN. Results were classified into four levels: unsatisfactory, slightly satisfactory, satisfactory and very satisfactory. The PANE areas and private reserves showed higher management effectiveness levels (satisfactory and very satisfactory) than ABVP areas, where slightly satisfactory and unsatisfactory levels prevailed. Resources availability was found as the main reason behind this difference. The extension, age and province of location were found irrelevant. Outputs, inputs and processes require main efforts to improve management effectiveness. Improving planning and input in the PANE areas and inputs and outcomes on ABVP areas is necessary to obtain a similar result in all areas. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd
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http://dspace.utpl.edu.ec/handle/123456789/69532
ISSN: 03014797
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