Dr Arturo Izurieta
Research Fellow
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BSc, MSc, PhD |
Contact details Fax: + 61 8 8946 7720 Office: 31.2.25 |
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Research interestsArturo holds a PhD in natural and rural systems management and has over 15 years of experience in management, planning and management effectiveness evaluation of protected areas. He is a former Director of the Galapagos Islands National Park and Marine Reserve and World Heritage Area. He was also Senior Officer for the WWF Central America Programme which involved bioregional planning, coordinating conservation activities in the Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef Ecoregion and evaluating conservation projects in the Central American region. Before coming to Australia in 2003, Arturo was managing a GEF-UNDP project on Introduced Species in the Galapagos Islands. He was also a member of a ‘task force’ of the World Commission on Protected Areas supporting the development of a Framework to Assess Management Effectiveness of Protected Areas, which have now been applied to about 800 protected areas around the world. Arturo's research interests have focused on providing tools to engage community leaders and stakeholders in the management of natural resources, particularly those within protected areas (land and marine) in Central and South America and in Queensland, Australia. His expertise in protected area management, community participation, evaluation and Participatory Action Research approaches are now being applied to the jointly managed protected areas in the Northern Territory in Australia.
Current projects
PublicationsBooks Cifuentes, M, Izurieta, A, De Faria, H., 2000. Measuring Protected Areas Management Effectiveness. WWF Central America, Technical Series No.2. WWF-IUCN-GTZ, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
Izurieta, A. 2000. Development and application of the WWF/CATIE methodology. In: Evaluating Effectiveness, Framework for assessing the Management of Protected Areas. Hockings, M., et al..IUCN. Gland Switzerland and Cambridge. UK. Izurieta, A. 2000. Management effectiveness evaluation of protected areas in Brazil. In: Evaluating Effectiveness, A Framework for assessing the Management of Protected Areas. Hockings, M., et al..IUCN. Gland Switzerland and Cambridge. UK.
Izurieta, A. 2000. Monitoring management of protected areas: A regional initiative for Central America (PROARCA/CAPAS). In: Evaluating Effectiveness, A Framework for assessing the Management of Protected Areas. Hockings, M., et al..IUCN. Gland Switzerland and Cambridge. UK. Izurieta, A. and Stacey, N. 2008, 'Developing a Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for Joint Management of Parks and Reserves in the Northern Territory: An Opportunity for Community Engagement, Training and Capacity Building', paper presented to Coast to Coast Collaboration: Crossing Boundaries, Darwin, Australia, 18-22 August 2008. Ross, H., Robinson, C. J, Hockings, M., Innes, J., Rist, P. & Izurieta, A. 2005. ‘Building co-management arrangements adaptively. Paper for the International Association for the Common Property Conference. Bali, Indonesia, June 19-23 2006.
Ross, H., Innes, J., George, M., Robinson, C., Hockings, M. & Izurieta, A. 2004, 'Supporting the development of cooperative management in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area', in C Richards & L Aitken (eds), Social Innovations in Natural Resource Management: A handbook of social research in natural resource management in Queensland, The State of Queensland, Department of Natural Resources and Mines.
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