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

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.