Parks and Protected Areas: Mobilizing Knowledge for Effective Decision-Making

• Other Authors: Hvenegaard, Glen (Editor), Halpenny, Elizabeth (Editor), Bueddefeld, Jill (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; pastoral enclosures; vernacular architecture; minor rural buildings; art of dry-stone walling; indigenous and community conserved areas; Galicia; Cornwall; forestry heritage; heathland and grassland conservation; plant biodiversity; protected areas; knowledge governance; cross-scale management; knowledge systems; temporal dimensions; time; local tacit experiential knowledge; participatory mapping; conservation planning; connectivity conservation; wildlife movement pathways; ecological corridors; Yosemite National Park; ethnographic databases; ethnography; National Park Service; cultural resource management; tribal co-management; Southern Sierra Miwuk; Mono Lake Paiute; data sources; Indigenous knowledge; industrial development; semi-aquatic mammals; knowledge mobilization; evidence-based decision making; Indigenous Knowledge; traditional knowledge; traditional ecological knowledge; subsistence, caribou; Iñupiat, Alaska; national parks; co-management; social science; natural science; local knowledge; indigenous knowledge; parks and protected areas management; biosphere reserve; co-design; transdisciplinary practices; public participation geographic information system (PPGIS); softGIS; parks planning; Delta; structured decision-making; evidence; wildlife; management effectiveness; grizzly bears; decision-making; evidence-informed policy; Alberta Parks; research; n/a
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Parks and protected areas provide important services to nature and society. Park managers make difficult decisions to achieve their diverse mandates, and need current, relevant, and rigorous information. However, effective use of research provided by social scientists, natural scientists, local people, or Indigenous people is an ongoing challenge. Through case studies, this book examines knowledge mobilization in parks and protected areas, with a focus on successes and failures, barriers and enablers, diverse theoretical frameworks, and structural innovations. This book embraces the generation and use of knowledge, especially natural science, social science, local knowledge, and Indigenous knowledge, in relation to policy, planning, and management of parks and protected areas.