Assessing the Management Effectiveness of Three Protected Areas in Ghana
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F21%3A87002" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/21:87002 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41340/21:87002
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26979974.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26979974.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_20_28" target="_blank" >10.4103/cs.cs_20_28</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Assessing the Management Effectiveness of Three Protected Areas in Ghana
Original language description
Assessments of management effectiveness of protected areas offer vital information about threats and management issues at the protected area. However, these assessments are frequently conducted mainly at the internal management level, without input from the local communities that implicitly influence the resources of the protected areas. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of three protected areas in Ghana, Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve, Gbele Resource Reserve, and Kalakpa Resource Reserve using the Rapid Assessment and Prioritisation of Protected Areas Management assessment tool. The study included workshops with park managers and representatives from local communities, district assemblies, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Poaching, settlements, agricultural encroachment, poverty in nearby communities, and bush fires were identified as common pressures to all the assessed protected areas. The degree of these pressures was influenced by little or no funding, poor com
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Conservation & Society
ISSN
0972-4923
e-ISSN
0975-3133
Volume of the periodical
19
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
IN - INDIA
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
13-24
UT code for WoS article
000621017300003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85101418099