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Ecological Principles for the Establishment and Management of National Parks and Equivalent Reserves*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Nicholas Polunin  and
Harold K. Eidsvik
Nicholas Polunin
Affiliation:
President of the Foundation for Environmental Conservation; Secretary-General and Editor of the International Conferences on Environmental Future; Founder and Editor of Environmental Conservation; Convener and Editor of Environmental Monographs and Symposia, 15 Chemin F.-Lehmann, 1218 Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland.
Harold K. Eidsvik
Affiliation:
Executive Officer, IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1110 Morges, Switzerland; formerly Deputy Chairman, IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas and Senior Policy Adviser to Parks, Canada.
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The central role of ecology in park planning and management is now so well recognized that the establishment of park programmes without ecological advice seems unthinkable. Yet attempts to link ecological principles and planning principles are still fraught with difficulty. Communications between interdisciplinary teams are complex.

The Authors of this paper illustrate how the principles of ecology and the practices of park management are interconnected and interdependent. The need for resource inventories as a foundation of park management is explored and emphasized as essential, as is the need for constant monitoring to ensure that conservation goals are attained. Underlying the article are basic convictions that dynamic ecosystems require dynamic management, and that management in the future will be required increasingly to attain specific conservation objectives.

Type
Main Papers
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , Spring 1979 , pp. 21 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1979

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