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

Heiland, Stefan; May, Anja; Scherfose, Volker

doi:10.3390/su12177135

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“…The Bivariate Moran's I analysis revealed some useful information of linkages between effectiveness factors. In the same dimension, there is a negative correlation between function and efficiency, indicating that better resource background conditions tend to slow development efficiency and are more likely to occur in villages with stable development, which can also reflect a mismatch of resource factors and thus affect the village's long-term sustainability [47]. At the same time, communities with lower baseline circumstances have better development efficiency, showing the village's transformational development dynamics.…”

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Rural Effectiveness Evaluation: A New Way of Assessing Village Development Status

2022

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China is currently at a crucial stage of rural revival and transformation growth. Accurate measurement of rural development status is able to provide decision-making services for rural revitalization plan implementation. To address this issue, combining with effectiveness concepts and on the basis of the widely recognized “production–living–ecology” perspective of rural development in the world, this study proposes an innovative technical evaluating system for rural effectiveness. We constructed a rural effectiveness evaluation index system and measurement model, as well as a four-quadrant approach to identify the effectiveness of villages, selecting Xintai county, a typical resource-depleted city, for empirical analysis to verify the evaluation technical system. The results show that (1) 220 villages had comprehensive effectiveness, accounting for 27.8% of the total; the amount of effectiveness for villages in terms of the production, living, and ecological dimensions were 204, 229 and 195, respectively, and they clearly displayed heterogeneity in terms of spatial distribution. (2) The following are village effectiveness dominant types: the function dominates the comprehensive effectiveness. For each dimension, there is a functionally dominant type. (3) Bivariate Moran′s I analysis revealed the relationships’ internal effectiveness. In the same dimension, there was a conflict between efficiency and function. In each dimension, trade-offs were found between the production function, ecological function, living efficiency, as well as production efficiency, ecological function, and efficiency. Synergies were found among the production function and ecological efficiency. Living efficiency had synergies with production efficiency and ecological efficiency. This research enriched the theoretical approach of assessing rural development status and can help guide the rational conversion of village elements to achieve village transformation and sustainability development, as well as providing technical assistance for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.

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Rural Effectiveness Evaluation: A New Way of Assessing Village Development Status

2022

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“…Negru Ciprian et al developed a grassroots management effectiveness assessment for Ecuador's national parks [22]. Heiland Stefan et al summarized the experiences of evaluating the management effectiveness of German national parks, emphasizing the importance of establishing quality systems [23]. The academic community has extensively discussed how to optimize the relationship between central and local governments in managing national parks and generally agrees that their functions differ.…”

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Contractual Mechanisms in National Park Management: A Multi-Task Principal–Agent Model

Lin,

Wen

2024

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In the management of national parks, the principal–agent relationship is key to efficient and effective management. Based on multi-task principal–agent theory, this study examines the dual functions of central government incentives and guidance and the objectives of local National Park Administration offices in environmental conservation and reasonable resource utilization. First, this study constructs a multi-task principal–agent model for central and local governments within the national park management system and identifies effective contractual mechanisms. Second, this study examines the relationship between the intensity of central government incentives and the ecological conservation atmosphere coefficient. Third, by integrating the three stages of national park management system advancement, this study explores the central government’s incentive strategies at different stages. The findings indicate that local governments receive limited ecological conservation support, underscoring the need for long-term central government incentives. The findings also confirm that the effective management of national parks by local governments can only be achieved by eliminating external uncertainties, reducing the variable costs of innovative advancements, and controlling risk aversion in local National Park Administration processes. In addition, this study includes empirical data for sensitivity analyses to understand the robustness of the model under different scenarios. This study offers valuable insights and practical suggestions for enhancing national park management.

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“…Currently, the evaluation research on national parks often separates the eco-environmental and socioeconomic evaluations. The ecological aspects include the evaluation of ecosystem integrity and authenticity (Jiang et al, 2021;Zhao, 2021), ecological sensitivity (Yang et al, 2017;Meng et al, 2018), ecological health (Su, 2019), and ecosystem service value (Li et al, 2016;Zhang and Zhang, 2019), whereas the social aspects mainly include the evaluation of national park management efficiency (Rudnicki et al, 2005;Heiland et al, 2020), resident livelihood flexibility (Meng and Chen, 2019), and resident sustainable livelihoods (Shang and Cao, 2019;Yu et al, 2020). The evaluation research also includes an assessment of economic aspects such as suitability for research and study travel (Chen et al, 2020) and for recreational use (Xiao et al, 2019).…”

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Quantitative assessment of the degree of harmony between humanity and nature for national parks in China: A case study of the Three-River-Source National Park

Guo

Liu²,

Liu³

et al. 2023

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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IntroductionNational parks, defined as the mainstay of the nature reserve system in China, pursue to achieve scientific protection and rational utilization of natural resources. However, eco-environmental and socioeconomic benefits are rarely considered together. Hereby, how to quantitatively express the relationship between humanity and nature in national parks needs further exploration. We selected the Three-River-Source National Park (TRSNP), China's largest national park by area and the world's highest altitude national park, as a representative case to construct an evaluation model for the degree of harmony between humanity and the nature of the national alpine ecological park.MethodsBased on the field survey data, the meteorological data, the remote sensing data, and the socioeconomic data, the study used the model inversion and the spatial analysis methods to quantitatively evaluate the degree of harmony consisting of 12 indexes from a fresh perspective of a combination of the ecological environment and social economy. Considering the TRSNP establishment in 2016 as the time node, we assessed and compared the degree of harmony between humanity and nature during the dynamic baseline period (2011–2015) and the evaluation period (2016–2020).ResultsThe results show that the degree of harmony between humanity and nature showed a gradual upward trend from the northwest to the southeast in the TRSNP. Compared with the dynamic baseline period, the eco-environmental and socioeconomic levels of the evaluation period were increased by 34.48 and 5.46%, respectively. Overall, the degree of harmony between humanity and nature visibly increased by 23.38%.DiscussionThis study has developed a novel comprehensive method for evaluating national parks at the regional scale for the win-win goal of both protection and development, and it provides a theoretical basis for effective planning and management policies for national parks.

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

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Rural Effectiveness Evaluation: A New Way of Assessing Village Development Status

Rural Effectiveness Evaluation: A New Way of Assessing Village Development Status

Contractual Mechanisms in National Park Management: A Multi-Task Principal–Agent Model

Quantitative assessment of the degree of harmony between humanity and nature for national parks in China: A case study of the Three-River-Source National Park

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