Enhancing the Diversity, Quality and Vitality of Governance of Protected and Conserved Areas
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Enhancing the diversity, quality and vitality of governance of protected and conserved areas PROCEEDINGS OF STREAM 6 OF THE IUCN WORLD PARKS CONGRESS SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) 12-19 NOVEMBER, 2014 EDITORS: ALESSANDRA PELLEGRINI ARCHI RASTOGI Enhancing the diversity, quality and vitality of governance of protected and conserved areas Proceedings of Stream 6 of the IUCN World Parks Congress, Sydney 2014 Table of Contents Enhancing the diversity, quality and vitality of governance ......................................................................... 1 About the Governance Stream and this report ........................................................................................ 1 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................... 2 Acronyms and abbreviations .................................................................................................................... 3 Part I: Introduction and background ............................................................................................................. 4 Why governance? ..................................................................................................................................... 5 From Durban to Sydney and beyond ........................................................................................................ 6 The governance frontier ........................................................................................................................... 7 A variety of actors in conservation ........................................................................................................... 8 Structure of the Proceedings .................................................................................................................... 9 Part II: A strategy of innovative approaches and recommendations to enhance the diversity, quality and vitality of governance in the next decade ................................................................................................... 12 Three strategic directions ....................................................................................................................... 13 Twenty recommendations ...................................................................................................................... 14 Part III: Reports from the workshops and side events ................................................................................ 19 Section III A: Governance for the conservation of nature – understanding who, what and why .......... 20 Governance for the conservation of nature, and ‘Celebrating governance!’ ..................................... 20 Achieving Aichi Target 11: governance diversity, coverage and conservation ................................... 25 Achieving Aichi Target 11: governance and equity ............................................................................. 31 Achieving Aichi Target 11: governance and the law ........................................................................... 33 Assessing, evaluating and improving governance of protected and conserved areas ....................... 36 The judiciary and protected areas ...................................................................................................... 39 Section III B: Implementing agreement and consolidating achievements ............................................ 42 Protected areas under government governance ................................................................................ 42 Privately protected areas .................................................................................................................... 44 Territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities ............................... 47 Protected areas under shared governance: inspiring solutions for adaptive co-management ......... 50 Governance, sustainable use of wild resources, and combating wildlife crime ................................. 53 Governance and procedural rights: securing collective responsibilities and citizen oversight in conserving nature ............................................................................................................................... 56 Advancing the quality of governance beyond national boundaries: challenges and solutions for the high seas and international seabed area ............................................................................................ 59 Environmental monitoring, mapping and other basic tools for grassroots conservation .................. 63 A call for limits: the need for “no-go” areas for industrial activities (No-Go Approaches - Part I.) .... 66 Building a global “no˗go” commitment: strengthening, expanding and enforcing “no-go” policies (No-Go Approaches - Part II.) .............................................................................................................. 69 Advancing protected area governance in Africa ................................................................................. 72 Collaborative governance of protected areas in Australia ................................................................. 74 Section III C: Advancing the governance frontier ................................................................................... 79 Making indigenous and community rights a global conservation priority ......................................... 79 Governing bio-cultural diversity for food security and food sovereignty ........................................... 82 Overlapping governance types: dealing with complexity and diversity ............................................. 84 Effective and equitable systems of protected areas........................................................................... 89 Effective and equitable governance of the landscape ........................................................................ 93 Effective and equitable governance of the seascape ......................................................................... 97 Governance of transboundary conservation areas .......................................................................... 100 Adaptive governance for resilient protected areas – preparing for the challenges ahead .............. 103 Inspiring solutions: governance, sustainable living and well-being .................................................. 105 Inspiring solutions: better-governed seascapes as models for sustainable living ............................ 109 Transboundary conservation: a systematic and integrated approach. Presenting IUCN WCPA Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines on transboundary conservation .............................................. 112 Social Assessment of Protected Areas .............................................................................................. 115 References ............................................................................................................................................ 117 Online Resources .................................................................................................................................. 117 Annex I: Repository of PowerPoint presentations and Rapporteur reports ........................................ 117 Annex II: The programme of the Stream .............................................................................................. 119 Annex III: List of Governance Stream Active Participants ..................................................................... 121 About the Governance Stream and this report The World Parks Congress is a landmark global forum held every ten years. The IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 was held in Sydney, Australia, on the theme of Parks, People, Planet – Inspiring Solutions. Organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and hosted by the Australian and New South Wales Governments, the Congress brought together more than 6,000 participants from over 170 countries. The main activities of the Congress were divided into eight streams and four themes. Stream 6 of the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 was “Enhancing the diversity, quality and vitality of governance of protected areas”, which came to be known as the ‘Governance Stream’. This report covers the activities of the Governance Stream, and its outcomes. Rather than a simple description of the events, we aim for the report to focus on the Stream’s main outcome and provide evidence and support for it: three strategic directions of work and twenty specific recommendations to enhance the diversity, quality and vitality of governance in the next decade. As part of the preparation for the Congress, there was a broad call for programme content in early 2014. Hundreds of submitted proposals, mostly self-identifying as pertinent to the Governance Stream, were reviewed and assessed on the basis of merits and relevance. Selected participants were invited to present their findings as part of 22 broadly identified workshops and 9 side-events. Simultaneously, the Stream co-leaders identified a group of potential ‘governance ambassadors’, who were invited to lead workshops and side-events on the basis of their known expertise and specific submissions. The workshop leaders were encouraged to develop the contents of the workshops in collaboration with the selected presenters. Each event in the Stream was covered by a team of rapporteurs, who provided their views and a report.