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Useful references:

  • Day J., Hockings M., and Jones G. 2003. Measuring effectiveness in Marine Protected Areas – Principles and Practice.
  • Hatcher B., Sale P., Usseglio P., and Arias Gonzales J. Recommendations on Methodology for Monitoring the Effectiveness of MPA Management. Report to Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System Project Coordination Unit.
  • Hockings, M. 1998. Evaluating management of protected areas: integrating planning and evaluation. Environmental Management 22(3): 337–346.
  • Hockings, M. 1999. Management effectiveness of protected areas. Theme issue. Parks 9(2).
  • Hockings M. 2000. Evaluating protected Area Management. A review of systems for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas. School of Natural and Rural Systems.
  • Hockings, M., Stolton, S. and Dudley, N. 2000. Evaluating Effectiveness: A Framework for Assessing the Management of Protected Areas. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK, 121 pages.
  • Hockings, M., Stolton, S., Dudley, N. and Parrish, J. 2000b. The Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit – Book 1. A training manual on how to build assessment, monitoring and reporting systems on the management effectiveness of World Heritage Sites. 36pp.
    www.enhancingheritage.net
  • Hockings, M., Stolton, S., Dudley, N. and Parrish, J. 2000c. The Enhancing Our Heritage Toolkit – Book 2. A workbook on how to build assessment, monitoring and reporting systems on the management effectiveness of World Heritage Sites. 136pp.
    www.enhancingheritage.net
  • Kelleher, G. 1999. Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas. IUCN–The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland.
  • Mangubhai, S. 2002. Biological and socioeconomic monitoring programmes and assessment recently carried out or underway in MPAs in selected countries in the Western Indian Ocean: Kenya, Madagascar, Seychelles, South Africa and Tanzania. Unpublished report, IUCN Eastern Africa Regional Office, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Pomeroy R., Parks J., and Watson L. 2002. Working Draft Guidebook: How is Your MPA Doing? Guidebook for Evaluation Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas. A Resource Guide on Biophysical, Socio–Eonomic and Governance Indicators for Evaluating MPA Managment Effectiveness.
    http://effectivempa.noaa.gov
  • Stolton S. et al. 2003. Reporting Progress at protected Area Sites. A siple site–level tracking tool developed for the World Bank, Washington, DC and WWF.
  • WWF. Improving Protected Area Management – WWF’s Rapid Assessment and Prioritisation Methodology.
    www.panda.org/downloads/forests/ Summary_final.pdf