Wilfrid Laurier University Scholars Commons @ Laurier Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) 2017 Accountability, Conservation and Community: Measuring the Local Economic Impacts of Protected Areas Catharine A.M. Brazeau Wilfrid Laurier University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd Part of the Environmental Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Brazeau, Catharine A.M., "Accountability, Conservation and Community: Measuring the Local Economic Impacts of Protected Areas" (2017). Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). 1917. https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1917 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) by an authorized administrator of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Accountability, Conservation and Community: Measuring the Local Economic Impacts of Protected Areas By C. A. M. Brazeau Bachelor of Arts, University of Ottawa, 2015 THESIS Submitted to the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Environmental Studies degree Wilfrid Laurier University 2017 © C. A. M. Brazeau, 2017 0 Abstract As a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada has committed to help protect biodiversity through an increase in effectively and equitably managed systems of protected areas (PAs) by 2020. If Canada fulfills this commitment, the country will see the largest expansion of PA networks in its history. Although employing ‘equitable and effective management’ suggests PAs have a responsibility to consider their effects on local stakeholders, on the whole, Canada’s PA agencies do not publicly and systematically report on their jurisdictions’ local economic impacts.