Assessing climate change-robustness of protected area management plans - The case of Germany. Geyer, J., Kreft, S., Jeltsch, F., & Ibisch, P. L. PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2017. Cited by: 5; All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access
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Protected areas are arguably the most important instrument of biodiversity conservation. To keep them fit under climate change, their management needs to be adapted to address related direct and indirect changes. In our study we focus on the adaptation of conservation management planning, evaluating management plans of 60 protected areas throughout Germany with regard to their climate change-robustness. First, climate change-robust conservation management was defined using 11 principles and 44 criteria, which followed an approach similar to sustainability standards. We then evaluated the performance of individual management plans concerning the climate change-robustness framework. We found that climate change-robustness of protected areas hardly exceeded 50 percent of the potential performance, with most plans ranking in the lower quarter. Most Natura 2000 protected areas, established under conservation legislation of the European Union, belong to the sites with especially poor performance, with lower values in smaller areas. In general, the individual principles showed very different rates of accordance with our principles, but similarly low intensity. Principles with generally higher performance values included holistic knowledge management, public accountability and acceptance as well as systemic and strategic coherence. Deficiencies were connected to dealing with the future and uncertainty. Lastly, we recommended the presented principles and criteria as essential guideposts that can be used as a checklist for working towards more climate change-robust planning. © 2017 Geyer et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
@ARTICLE{Geyer2017,
	author = {Geyer, Juliane and Kreft, Stefan and Jeltsch, Florian and Ibisch, Pierre L.},
	title = {Assessing climate change-robustness of protected area management plans - The case of Germany},
	year = {2017},
	journal = {PLoS ONE},
	volume = {12},
	number = {10},
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0185972},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85030675956&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0185972&partnerID=40&md5=01da84e0e52e3e57da5cadbfa477a588},
	affiliations = {Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany; Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany},
	abstract = {Protected areas are arguably the most important instrument of biodiversity conservation. To keep them fit under climate change, their management needs to be adapted to address related direct and indirect changes. In our study we focus on the adaptation of conservation management planning, evaluating management plans of 60 protected areas throughout Germany with regard to their climate change-robustness. First, climate change-robust conservation management was defined using 11 principles and 44 criteria, which followed an approach similar to sustainability standards. We then evaluated the performance of individual management plans concerning the climate change-robustness framework. We found that climate change-robustness of protected areas hardly exceeded 50 percent of the potential performance, with most plans ranking in the lower quarter. Most Natura 2000 protected areas, established under conservation legislation of the European Union, belong to the sites with especially poor performance, with lower values in smaller areas. In general, the individual principles showed very different rates of accordance with our principles, but similarly low intensity. Principles with generally higher performance values included holistic knowledge management, public accountability and acceptance as well as systemic and strategic coherence. Deficiencies were connected to dealing with the future and uncertainty. Lastly, we recommended the presented principles and criteria as essential guideposts that can be used as a checklist for working towards more climate change-robust planning. © 2017 Geyer et al. This is an open access article distributed under the      terms      of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,      distribution,      and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source      are      credited.},
	keywords = {Climate Change; Conservation of Natural Resources; Germany; checklist; climate change; European Union; Germany; knowledge management; law; uncertainty; environmental protection; Germany},
	correspondence_address = {J. Geyer; Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany; email: juliane.geyer@hnee.de},
	publisher = {Public Library of Science},
	issn = {19326203},
	coden = {POLNC},
	pmid = {28982187},
	language = {English},
	abbrev_source_title = {PLoS ONE},
	type = {Article},
	publication_stage = {Final},
	source = {Scopus},
	note = {Cited by: 5; All Open Access, Gold Open Access, Green Open Access}
}

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