Task Description:

Understanding the spatial context of protected areas is fundamental for management and decision making. For this task, you are required to create a map for your chosen protected area (see task 3) using the tools and resources taught in the Unit. This map, after addressing feedback, should be used in your report Task 3. Your map should include a description that clearly explains and justifies what the map is about and the information that is presented.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 7

Weight:

30 %

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Task Description:

The goal for this task is to conduct a thorough analysis of the management effectiveness within the chosen protected area. Students will choose a protected area from the following list:
1. Banff National Park, Canada
2. Cairngorms National Park, Scotland
3. Cape Byron Marine Park, Australia
4. Cradle Mountain National Park, Australia
5. Freycinet National Park, Australia
6. Kakadu National Park, Australia
7. Kruger National Park, South Africa
8. Mt Field National Park, Australia
9. Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada
10. Yellowstone National Park, USA

The report should be presented in 4 sections as follows.

1. Basis of management:
• Introduce the protected area (location, boundary and values).
• Indicate the management authority and the IUCN category of your chosen protected area.
• Indicate the key management objectives and show how these relate to the IUCN category.

2. Issues of management:
• Present threats to the long-term viability of the protected area.
• Identify the most significant threat to your chosen protected area.
• Justify your choice for the most significant threat to your chosen protected area.


3. Management responses:
• identify current management responses (voluntary, economic and/or regulatory management instruments) that have been used to address the most significant threat.
• examine the effectiveness of the management responses.

4. Future management:
• propose solutions to the most significant threat.
• propose and explain the way in which geographical information systems can be used to deal with the most significant threat you have identified in section 2.
• conclude the report with your thoughts on the future of your chosen protected area.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 11

Weight:

40 %

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Task Description:

This task requires the active participation of students during workshops/tutorials.

Workshop outputs are composed of two (2) parts:

1) Students are to complete online quizzes (six quizzes administered at different times during the teaching period) to capture and consolidate their learnings through a series of questions, relevant to the topics covered.

2) Students will also complete exercise questions related to the workshops content, documenting their answers on a written document to be submitted via MyLo.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Refer to Assessment Description

Weight:

30 %

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