KNOWLEDGE GENERATION, ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT

• Published in: Protected Area Governance and Management p. 327
• Main Authors: Naomi Kingston, Brian MacSharry, Marcelo Gonçalves de Lima, Elise M. S. Belle, Neil D. Burgess
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: ANU Press 08-04-2015
• Subjects: Applied ecology; Applied sciences; Biodiversity; Biodiversity conservation; Biological sciences; Biological taxonomies; Biology; Conservation agriculture; Conservation biology; Data collection; Data products; Datasets; Ecology; Environmental management; Habitat conservation; Human geography; Information management; Information science; Knowledge management; Land use; Natural resource management; Natural resources conservation; Nature conservation; Population ecology; Protected areas; Public space; Research methods; Social sciences; Species; Synecology; Wildlife conservation; Wildlife management; Wildlife studies
• ISBN: 1925021688; 9781925021684

Decisions are made about protected area management every day. Decision-making can occur at different scales, including local, national or global, and by a range of different actors, such as site managers, planners or policymakers, politicians, business managers or funding bodies. In order to make good decisions, all these actors require access to quality data and information to understand and mitigate threats and pressures affecting protected areas and the implications of those threats for biodiversity, ecosystem services and the human communities they support. This chapter focuses on knowledge generation, acquisition and management, with particular reference to protected areas. Very often the