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Integrated Protected Area Selection in Australian Biogeographic Regions

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posted on 2023-05-16, 16:33 authored by Michael LockwoodMichael Lockwood, Bos, DG, Glazebrook, H
This paper reports on the development of a biogeographic-based protected area selection procedure (PASP) that addresses limitations of current reserve selection methods such as inflexibility, restrictive criteria structures, and disregard of social criteria. We argue that selection criteria are legitimately identified through the political process and can therefore have both social and biological content. PASP provides a systematic, flexible and efficient procedure for identifying a network of protected areas that satisfies a given set of selection criteria. PASP has 11 steps divided into three main stages: compilation, selection, and validation. A selection algorithm is used into which criteria specific to the biogeographic region under study can be incorporated. The procedure is able to accommodate both nominal and ranking criteria and gives the analyst the opportunity to specify thresholds and targets for each criterion. Other features of PASP include the minimization of data collection effort, consideration of reserve design principles, and inclusion of a network evaluation as a check to ensure that politically determined objectives have been met.

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Publication title

Environmental Management

Volume

21

Pagination

395-404

ISSN

0364-152X

Department/School

School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences

Publisher

Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Place of publication

New York

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Other environmental management not elsewhere classified

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