The Australian Protected Areas Congress 2008 was held at Twin Waters Resort, Queensland.
Read the consolidated proceedings Protected Areas in the Century of Change, ~279 pages, here. A wealth of information, from a formidable cast of knowledgeable people.
Masterclass
The Congress included a Masterclass on “Management Effectiveness Evaluation” of protected areas. The aims were to:
- hear from a number of park agencies and research institutions about their experiences applying the World Commission for Protected Areas Management Effectiveness Evaluation framework
- discuss different management effectiveness evaluation tools, their application and lessons learnt from their implementation.
Participants (minus email addresses, but PaRC holds a copy)
Design and analysis issues for ME evaluations
Process guidelines for indicator selection for Protected Area Management Effectiveness Evaluations
Management Effectiveness Evaluation within State of the Parks Assessment and Reporting Systems: Draft Principles
Ridgeline, the newsletter of the Australian Research Council (ARC) linkage project titled “Building capacity for adaptive management in protected areas through improved systems for monitoring and evaluation”:
Presentations
Introductory presentation. Marc Hockings and Fiona Leverington.
Linking management effectiveness evaluations with on-ground management activities: An example from the NSW State of the Parks Program. Andrew Growcock.
Designing Reliable Management Effectiveness Assessments. Carly Cook.
Linking evaluation to the needs of managers. Chris Jacobson.
Great Parks Network Benchmarks: An analysis of membership management performance. Parks Forum.
Spatial tools for understanding performance within a landscape context. Josie Kelman.
Effectively managing management effectiveness. Peter Stathis et al.
Performance Assessments in Western Australia. Conservation Council of Western Australia.
Linking short-term and longer term evaluation. Tony Varcoe.
Discussion
Slides of the discussion – consolidated
Findings – with shorter list of participants, email addresses deleted.