Transforming Parks and Protected Areas

Kevin Hanna teaches environment and resource policy, environmental assessment and land use planning at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research centres on integrated natural resource management, impact assessment, forestry communities, and regional planning approaches. Scott Slocombe has taught resource and environmental management at Wilfrid Laurier University since 1989. His research and consulting interests focus on protected areas, environmental planning, management, policy and education, and systems approaches. Doug Clark studies and teaches governance for social-ecological systems, focusing on the circumpolar north. Doug spent 11 years with Parks Canada in a variety of postings, including as the first Chief Warden of Canadas Wapusk National Park established in 1997. He has twice received Parks Canada's Award of Excellence from the Agency's C.E.O. and in 2004 he became a Canon National Parks Science Scholar.

1. Introduction: Protected Areas in a Changing World Part 1: The Challenges of Governance 2. Evolution of Contexts for Protected Areas Governance 3. Governance Models for Parks, Recreation, and Tourism 4. Information Technology and the Protection of Biodiversity in Protected Areas Michael 5. Anthropological Contributions to Protected Area Management 6. Steering Governance through Regime Formation at the Landscape Scale: Evaluating Experiences in Canadian Biosphere Reserves Part 2: Critical Perspectives 7. Conflict and Protected Areas Establishment: British Columbias Political Parks 8. Deconstructing Ecological Integrity Policy in Canadian National Parks 9. The Science and Management Interface in National Parks 10. Indigenous Peoples and Protected Heritage Areas: Acknowledging Cultural Pluralism 11. Political Ecology Perspectives on Ecotourism to Parks and Protected Areas 12. Summary and Synthesis