Associate Professor, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, India
Online published on 31 October, 2017.
Assessing management effectiveness of protected areas has assumed importance in the face of accountability, transparency, and funding constraints. Prioritization of sites for bio diversity conservation, community conserved areas, recognition of forest rights have changed the way protected areas need to be managed. International organizations have come up with various tools for assessing management effectiveness. The paper discusses the framework for implementation of management effectiveness programmes in India.
Protected Areas (PA), Marine Protected Areas (MPA), International Union for Conservation of nature and Natural Resources(IUCN), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora(CITES), World wide Fund for Nature(WWF), Global Environment Facility(GEF), Management effectiveness
