Societies collapse when there is an increasing natural resource scarcity and growing
stratification of society into rich and poor. The neoliberal world of targets, business plans and …

Biodiversity management has traditionally followed two contradictory approaches. One
champions ecosystem protection through rigorous law enforcement and exclusion of …

This article investigates if the recommendations provided in the statutory documents of the
UNESCO MAB (Man and Biosphere) Programme introducing the World Network of …

This paper conducts a systematic review of the literature (SRL) to update the relevance of
social perception (SP) for managing protected areas and conservation spaces that …

Evaluating the effectiveness of protected areas for sustaining biodiversity is crucial to
achieving conservation outcomes. While studies of effectiveness have improved our …

Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, and stands out for its
commitment to conservation. Along its two coasts, it presents a great heterogeneity of …

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag untersucht Großschutzgebiete aus der Perspektive der
raumbezogenen Governance-Forschung. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Analyse der Governance …

International case studies of protected area performance increasingly report that
conservation and socio‐economic outcomes are interdependent. Effective conservation …

This paper adopts an actor‐oriented approach to identify and conceptualise common
challenges to interactive environmental governance in three well‐known Mexican biosphere …

Conflicts of interest between conservation objectives and the continuation of conventional
land uses have accompanied national parks in Germany since the first park's designation in …