Protected Area Management Tools

Tool - WWF Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Areas Management (RAPPAM) — by webadmin — last modified 2006-02-22 19:48

WWF's Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Areas Management (RAPPAM) methodology was created by the Forests for Life Programme to provide policy makers and park managers with an appropriate tool to assess the management effectiveness of protected area systems. Among other, the RAPPAM identifies management strengths and weaknesses, analyses the scope, severity, prevalence, and distribution of a variety of threats and pressures, and identify areas of high ecological and social importance and vulnerability

Is Our Project Succeeding: A Guide to Threat Reduction Assessment for Conservation — by Richard Margoluis — last modified 2007-07-07 20:28

Measuring Project Success 2 Like any other project, conservation projects are designed to change something, to have an impact on some state or condition. The main goal of this change is to protect biodiversity. One of the major differences we see between conservation projects and other projects, however, is that it is often difficult to define—in clear, operational terms—precisely what it is that conservation projects are trying to achieve. In a business setting, the project goal is usually financial profit and it is usually pretty easy to evaluate how much money a company is making or losing. For a health project, it is relatively easy to measure the health status of a particular population and to track changes over time to measure the success of a given intervention. But for conservation projects, what practical and meaningful measures of project impact are available to us? ...

Link to - Tool - A Guide to Threat Reduction Assessment for Conservation — by Portal Web Editor — last modified 2007-03-15 13:52

This Guide, written by Richard Margoluis and Nick Salafsy, was produced under the Biodiversity Support Program (1988-2001) as a Program Evaluation and Conservation Impact Assessment Tool.

Renewable Energy for Protected Area Management in the Yucatan Peninsula — by Auturo Romero-Paredes Rubino — last modified 2007-07-07 22:17

Renewable energy technologies have been widely applied to support diverse protected areas in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, Under the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US Department of Energy Program (MREP)., over 70 renewable energy systems have been installed in Mexico.