IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v12y2020i17p7135-d407313.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evaluation of the Management Effectiveness of German National Parks—Experiences, Results, Lessons Learned and Future Prospects

Author

Listed:
  • Stefan Heiland

    (Landscape Planning and Development, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany)

  • Anja May

    (Consultant Research and Monitoring, Nationale Naturlandschaften Deutschland e.V. (“National Natural Landscapes e.V.”, Formerly EUROPARC Deutschland e.V.), 10717 Berlin, Germany)

  • Volker Scherfose

    (Department Protected Areas, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz), 53179 Bonn, Germany)

Abstract

Since 2005 until today, experience has been gained in the preparation, implementation and impacts of the evaluation of the management effectiveness of German national parks. This process began with the development of a quality set containing fields of action, criteria, standards and a questionnaire to assess the state of national park management. This quality set was applied in the first voluntary full evaluation of German national parks, which took place from 2009 to 2012. An assessment of the full evaluation and the following interim evaluation (2015–2018) demonstrated the positive effects of the evaluation for the national parks, but also revealed some weaknesses of the quality set and the evaluation process. For this reason, work has been underway since 2019 to further improve the evaluation method; however, this has not yet been completed. The article provides an overview of the entire process. It concludes with considerations on the transferability of the evaluation method to other countries and gives some recommendations as to the most important aspects to be considered when evaluating the management effectiveness of national parks.

Suggested Citation

  • Stefan Heiland & Anja May & Volker Scherfose, 2020. "Evaluation of the Management Effectiveness of German National Parks—Experiences, Results, Lessons Learned and Future Prospects," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(17), pages 1-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:17:p:7135-:d:407313
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/17/7135/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/17/7135/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:17:p:7135-:d:407313. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.