If you want free access (for next 90 days) to our One Earth Review “Multiple-use protected areas are critical to equitable and effective conservation” please follow this link and download now:
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hm7A9C%7EIu09pz.

If you miss out on the 90 day window just email me at vm.adams@utas.edu.au for a PDF too.

A bit about how we came to the conclusion that multiple-use protected areas are critical. We (myself, Alienor Chauvenet, Caitie Kuempel, Natasha Stoudmann, Georgina Gurney, and Dan Brockington) set out on a journey to review and synthesize evidence to date on the growth of the protected and conserved estate, where and why it was working, and where and why it wasn’t working and creating harm (to nature and people). In doing so we gathered a range of data and sources and independently began to re-analyze them. We didn’t set out to study multiple-use protected areas specifically, but what we found in the data through our various analyses is that they were profoundly important in terms of total area protected, proportion of global estate, alignment to equitable and effective conservation goals, and documented evidence that they can be effective in protecting biodiversity (and sometimes even more so than their strict counterparts). Essential to our approach was having a research team with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and personal value orientations to conservation, but that were open to what the data and results. We applied evidence based approaches alongside robust discussion and the outcome was our perhaps unexpected and not originally intended conclusion that multiple use protected areas are critical to equitable and effective conservation. The process of analyzing the global data and synthesizing the evidence to inform the future growth of the global protected and conserved estate was a particularly rewarding if not challenging experience — there’s a lot of data and analyses in there so it was not simple task to bring it all together but the team was up to the task!