IUCN WCPA Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines, Technical Reports and related documents Schedule
IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and the Global Protected Areas Programme (GPAP) maintain the IUCN WCPA Best Practice Protected
Area Guidelines, Technical Reports and related protected area publications. In October 2010, the Best Practice Protected Area Series took on even greater
relevance when the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP10 in Nagoya mandated IUCN to advise parties on how best to implement the CBD Strategic
Plan and the Programme of Work on Protected Areas. We regard an updated series of Best Practice Guidelines endorsed by both IUCN and the CBD to be an
important contribution to this task.
The IUCN WCPA Publications Policy, endorsed by the IUCN WCPA Steering Committee, 6th April 2011, requires the IUCN WCPA Executive Committee (EXCO) to
approve each publication and to appoint a Publication Manager for each publication. These decisions are reflected in the Table below. See the WCPA
Publications policy here: http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/iucn_wcpa_publications_policy.pdf and the Best Practice Protected Areas Guidelines Series
Editorial Policy and Guidance for Authors here: http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/iucn_wcpa_best_practice_guidelines_series_editorial_policy.pdf
Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series -Completed Products
BP1: National Systems Planning for Protected Areas
BP2: Economic Values of Protected Areas
BP3: Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas
BP4: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas
BP5: Financing Protected Areas
BP6: Evaluating Effectiveness: A Framework for Assessing the Management of Protected
Areas: 1st edition
BP7: Transboundary Protected Areas for Peace and Cooperation
BP8: Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas
BP9: Management Guidelines for IUCN Category V Protected Areas Protected
Landscapes/Seascapes
BP10: Guidelines for Management Planning of Protected Areas
BP11: Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas: Towards Equity and Enhanced
Conservation
BP12: Forests and Protected Areas: Guidance on the use of the IUCN Protected Area
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Publication
date
1998
1998
1999
2000
2000
2000
Series Editor
Translations*/Notes
Adrian Phillips
Adrian Phillips
Adrian Phillips
Adrian Phillips
Adrian Phillips
Adrian Phillips
2001
2002
2002
Adrian Phillips
Adrian Phillips
Adrian Phillips
A, C, E, R
E, R
E
E, S
E
C, E, R- 1st Edition
E, F- 2nd Edition
C, E
C, E, R
C, E, F, S
2003
2004
Adrian Phillips
Adrian Phillips
A, C, E, F, J
E
2006
Adrian Phillips
E
Management Categories
BP13: Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas
BP14 Evaluating Effectiveness: A Framework for Assessing the Management of Protected
Areas: 2nd edition
BP15: Identification and Gap Analysis of Key Biodiversity Areas: Targets for Comprehensive
Protected Area Systems
BP16: Sacred Natural Sites: Guidelines for Protected Area Managers
BP17: Protected Area Staff Training: Guidelines for Planning and Management
BP18: Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas: Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
2006
2006
Peter Valentine
Peter Valentine
E
E, F
2006
Peter Valentine
E, F
2008
2011
2012
Peter Valentine
Peter Valentine
Peter Valentine
E, ES, F, K, R, S
E
E, F, K
BP19: Guidelines for applying the IUCN Protected Area Management Categories to Marine
Protected Areas: Supplement to the 2008 IUCN Guidelines for Applying Protected Area
Management Categories
BP20: Governance of Protected Areas: From Understanding to Action
BP21: Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories (reprint of 2008
publication) Including IUCN WCPA Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas
and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types by Sue Stolton,
Peter Shadie and Nigel Dudley
BP22: Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
2012
Peter Valentine
E, F, S
2013
2013
Adrian Phillips
Nigel Dudley
and Sue Stolton
E, F, S, IT
A, E, F, J, K, S (2008
publication)
2014
Craig Groves
E
IUCN WCPA Publications not in Best Practice Protected Areas or Technical
Reports- Completed
IUCN WCPA
Publications
not in Best
Practice
Protected
Areas or
Technical
ReportsCompleted
2014
Editors
Notes
Graeme
Worboys,
Michael
Lockwood,
Ashish Kothari,
Sue Feary and
Ian Pulsford
E
Available as an EBook.
Protected Area Governance and Management
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IUCN WPA Technical Report Series-Completed Products
TR1: The Futures of Privately Protected Areas
WCPA Technical Report Series – In Production
Managing Illegal Wildlife hunting in Protected Areas: A Training Guide for Field Rangers
Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines in Production
Designs for Nature: Regional Conservation Planning, Implementation and Management
Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas (BP8 under revision)
Trans-boundary Conservation: Guideline for Planners and Practitioners
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2014
Sue Stolton,
Kent Redford,
Nigel Dudley et
al
E
Lead
Author (LA) or
Publications
Manager (PM)
Wayne Lotter
Editors
Notes
Wayne Lotter,
Keith Roberts,
Kurt Steiner,
Krissie Clark,
Ruben de Kock
and Damien
Mander
Approved by EXCO
via email February
8, 2014. Funding
secured from WWFUS. Projected
completion date
mid-2015
Lead Author
(LA) or
Publications
Manager (PM)
Stephen
Woodley (LA)
Editors ++
Notes
Samantha
Weber,
Stephen
Woodley, Bob
Pressey
Yu-Fai Leung
Approved by WCPA
Chair in 2008.
Projected
completion date
2015
TAPAS Group
coordinating the
work. Projected
completion date
2015
Proposal approved
by WCPA EXCO on
10 July 2013 via
Anna
Spenceley
(PM)
Yu-Fai Leung
(LA)
Maja
Vasilijevic
(PM)
Maja Vasilijevic,
Olivier Chassot,
Boris Erg,
Guidelines for the Design and Management of Large-scale Marine Protected Areas
Climate Change and Protected Areas
Nai’a Lewis
Dan Laffoley
(PM), John
Parks, Carlos
Gaymer
Leigh Welling
and Stephen
Woodley (coPM and LA)
Matthew
McKinney,
Michael
Schoon, Kevan
Zunckel
email. Projected
completion for the
WPC 2015
Nai’a Lewis
Proposal approved
by WCPA EXCO April
2013. Projected
Completion date
2015.
John Gross
Approved by WCPA
EXCO 7 April 2011.
Draft will be
presented at WPC
Nov. 2014 for input.
Projected
completion date
May 2015.
Approved by EXCO
10 May 2012. Draft
will be presented at
WPC November
2014. Projected
completion date
June 2015.
Approved by EXCO
via email February
8, 2014. Projected
completion date,
mid 2015.
Managing Alien Invasive Species in Protected Areas
Piero
Genovesi (PM)
Andrea
Monaco, Phil
Andreozzi, Jack
Ranney,
Cultural and Spiritual Significance of Protected Areas: Guidelines for Protected Area
Managers
Bas
Verschuuren,
Edwin
Bernbaum,
Thymio
Papayannis,
Josep-Maria
Mallarach,
Vita de Waal,
Radhika
Borde, Will
TBD
October 2014
Healthy Parks Healthy People Best Practice PA Guideline
TuladharDouglas
Ian Walker
(PM)
John Senior
Proposal approved
by WCPA EXCO on
10 May 2013 via
email. Draft will be
presented at the
Nov. 2014 WPC.
Projected
completion date
May 2015.
Approved by WCPA
EXCO on 22 March
2013. A draft will be
presented at the
WPC November
2014. Projected
completion date
early 2016.
Approved by EXCO
10 May 2012.
Completion date
dependent on
securing funding.
Social Assessment of Protected Areas
Colleen
Corrigan and
Dilys Roe,
(PM); Phil
Franks (LA)
Ro Hill and
colleagues
Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN Category 1b
Cyril Kormos
and Vance
Martin (PM)
TBD
Publication Project Proposals pending review by the WCPA Executive
Committee
Lead Author
(LA) or
Publications
Manager (PM)
Editor++
Notes
Publication Project Proposals discussed but not yet submitted to the WCPA
EXCO for consideration
Point of
contact
Editor++
Notes
Best Practice Guidelines on Management of category VI Protected Areas
Claudio
Maretti
TBD
Draft proposal
submitted to D.
Reynolds for review
July 2013.
None at present
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Islands and Protected Areas
Lloyd Gardner
TBD
Draft proposal
submitted July 2013
that included a
rough budget
*Translations Key: A=Arabic, B=Bulgarian, C=Chinese, E=English, ES=Estonian, F=French, G=German, H=Hungarian, I=Indonesian, IT=Italian,
J=Japanese, K=Korean, P=Portuguese, R=Russian, S=Spanish, T=Thai, TU=Turkish, U=Ukrainian
++ An IUCN WCPA Best Practice Protected Areas Guideline Editor will coordinate with each publication author/editors to ensure consistency in
quality and style for the guidelines.
Suggestions/updates may be directed to: David Reynolds, Senior Advisor, Protected Areas Capacity Development, Global Protected Areas Programme, IUCN, at
david.reynolds@iucn.org
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