scholarly journals EXCELLENCE MODEL IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: THE CAETÉS ECOLOGICAL STATION CASE

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIANNINA CYSNEIROS BEZERRA ◽  
RENATA MARIA CAMINHA MENDES DE OLIVEIRA CARVALHO ◽  
MARÍLIA REGINA COSTA CASTRO LYRA
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Conservation Units ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Unit Management ◽  
Model Of Excellence

Abstract The Model of Excellence in Public Management (MEGP) stands out for the results from the management of protected areas. This study aimed to analyze the applicability of this model to improve the effectiveness in management of the Pernambuco conservation units. As a reference, the Ecological Station chosen was Caetés, the first State unit deployed with a management plan and participatory management. Adapting the model to the unit management conditions and, through workshops with managers, the MEGP criteria were analyzed, the existing management practices identified and the results presented. The analysis revealed managerial gaps that interfere with the unit management and the use of the model helps to improve it, also improving outcomes for biodiversity conservation policies.

scholarly journals UNIDADES DE CONSERVAÇÃO CARIOCAS: HISTÓRICO E CENÁRIO ATUAL

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 890-902
Author(s):  
Bruna Lobo de Mattos Bezerra ◽  
◽  
Paula Koeler Lira
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Conservation Units ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Management Responsibility ◽  
The City

Protected areas are the main strategy for biodiversity conservation. The Atlantic Forest is a biodiversity hotspot therefore a priority site for establishing protected areas. This work describes the history and current scenario of the Conservation Units (UCs – Unidades de Conservação in Portuguese) – as protected areas are called in Brazil – in Rio de Janeiro municipality. Therefore, this study reports the process of UCs creation in Rio de Janeiro, analyzes how they are distributed among the different categories of the Brazilian National Protected Areas System and spatially throughout the city and, finally, verifies if UCs have a management plan and how they were elaborated. The process of UCs establishment in Rio de Janeiro seems to reflect the world growing concern about environmental issues which resulted in changes in the Brazilian environmental policies. Currently, 24% of the city area is covered by forests and 67% of this forest cover is inside its 60 UCs. This scenario is not as positive as it sounds: (1) half of Rio de Janeiro UCs belongs to a category which might be of little efficiency in conserving biodiversity, (2) the existence of these UCs does not guarantee biodiversity conservation as many seem to be “paper parks” and only 25% of the UCs have its most relevant management tool and (3) most UCs overlap among each other which can lead to uncertainties regarding the management responsibility of the areas that they share. Considering that the city has forest cover below the minimum quantity to maintain biodiversity integrity, the effectiveness of its UCs have to be maximized. This requires that Rio de Janeiro UCs have their limits revised to eliminate their overlaps and have an appropriate management guided through well-designed and frequently updated management plans.

scholarly journals Management of Antarctic Specially Protected Areas: permitting, visitation and information exchange practices

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.R. Pertierra ◽  
K.A. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Full Disclosure ◽  
Environmental Management Practices ◽  
Previous Season ◽  
Antarctic Treaty ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Specially Protected Areas

AbstractAntarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs) represent the highest level of area protection within the Antarctic Treaty area. To reduce environmental impacts, ASPA visitors must comply with the Area's management plan and receive an entry permit from an appropriate national authority. Parties to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty are obliged to exchange information on: i) the number of permits allocated for the forthcoming season, and ii) the number of visits to ASPAs during the previous season. We assessed the effectiveness of current permitting and information exchange practices by examining ASPA visitation data supplied to the Antarctic Treaty System's Electronic Information Exchange System during 2008/09–2010/11. We found that Parties have interpreted and implemented the protected area legislation inconsistently. Furthermore, some Parties did not fulfil their obligations under the Protocol by failing to provide full information on ASPA visitation. Estimations suggested that the level of ASPA visitation varied with ASPA location and the main value being protected. However, without full disclosure by Parties, ASPA visitation data is of limited use for informing general and ASPA-specific environmental management practices. Improved provision and formal interpretation of ASPA visitation data are recommended to enable more co-ordinated and effective management of activities within ASPAs.

scholarly journals Participatory Management of Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation and Social Inclusion

2017 ◽  
pp. 295-332
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Briot ◽  
Marta de Azevedo Irving ◽  
José Eurico Vasconcelos Filho ◽  
Gustavo Mendes de Melo ◽  
Isabelle Alvarez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Agent Simulation ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Role Playing Game

The objective of this paper is to reflect on our experience in a serious game research project, named SimParc, about multi-agent support for participatory management of protected areas for biodiversity conservation and social inclusion. Our project has a clear filiation with the MAS-RPG methodology developed by the ComMod action-research community, where multi-agent simulation (MAS) computes the dynamics of the resources and role-playing game (RPG) represents the actions and dialogue between stakeholders about the resources. We have explored some specific directions, such as: dialogue support for negotiation; argumentation-based decision making and its explanation; technical assistance to the players based on viability modeling. In our project, multi-agent based simulation focuses on the negotiation process itself, performed by human players and some artificial participants/agents, rather than on the simulation of the resources dynamics. Meanwhile, we have also reintroduced the modeling of the socioecosystem dynamics, but as a local technical assistance/analysis tool for the players.

scholarly journals The use of scientific knowledge in the decision making process of environmental public policies in Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. A03 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria José Carneiro ◽  
Teresa da Silva Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Expert Advice ◽  
Conservation Units ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
The Way

The way policy makers mobilize scientific knowledge in order to formulate environmental policies is important for understanding the developmental process of environmental policies. Some biodiversity conservation policies, such as those establishing the conservation units and laws on the regulation of land use in protected areas, were selected as objects of analysis. The aim was to see whether political decision makers are supported by scientific knowledge or not. Based on interviews with technical staff from governmental institutions, politicians and scientists, this study analyzed the way the knowledge is mobilized by policy makers concerning measures related to biodiversity conservation in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). We have concluded that environmental policy makers do not normally use the knowledge produced by scientific and academic institutions. Rather than being based on a systematic bibliographic research on environmental issues, the decisions are supported either by personal experience or by expert advice. The measures under analysis were not supported by evidence based on knowledge but motivated by political or economic interests. Paradoxically, policy makers consider themselves sufficiently well informed to make decisions concerning the policy to be implemented.

OPTIMALISASI PERAN PEMDA DALAM MENGATASI KENDALA PELAKSANAAN KONSERVASI KEANEKARAGAMAN HAYATI DI DAERAH (STUDI KASUS PROVINSI BENGKULU)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antung Deddy Radiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Conservation Policies

Gaps in biodiversity conservation management within the Conservation Area that are the responsibility of the central government and outside the Conservation Areas or as the Essential Ecosystems Area (EEA) which are the authority of the Regional Government, have caused various spatial conflicts between wildlife /wild plants and land management activities. Several obstacles faced by the Local Government to conduct its authority to manage (EEA), caused the number and area of EEA determined by the Local Government to be still low. At present only 703,000 ha are determined from the 67 million ha indicated by EEA. This study aims to overview biodiversity conservation policies by local governments and company perceptions in implementing conservation policies and formulate strategies for optimizing the role of Local Governments. From the results of this study, there has not been found any legal umbrella for the implementation of Law number 23/ 2014 related to the conservation of important ecosystems in the regions. This regulatory vacuum leaves the local government in a dilemma for continuing various conservation programs. By using a SWOT to the internal strategic environment and external stratetegic environment of the Environment and Forestry Service, Bengkulu Province , as well as using an analysis of company perceptions of the conservation policies regulatary , this study has been formulated a “survival strategy” through collaboration between the Central Government, Local Governments and the Private Sector to optimize the role of Local Government’s to establish EEA in the regions.Keywords: Management gaps, Essential Ecosystems Area (EEA), Conservation Areas, SWOT analysis and perception analysis

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