Chapter 10
A Methodical Framework for Climate
Change-Adapted Management
in Protected Areas
Christian Wilke and Sven Rannow
10.1 Introduction
This chapter gives practical advice and recommendations to protected area managers
on how to prepare and organise the process of adaptation to climate change. It
highlights topics and working steps that are essential in the process of adaptation
but also need special attention and good preparation in order to be successful.
In this chapter, we present an approach for adapting protected area management to
climate change based on the specific duties, tasks, and competences of protected area
managers. This approach aims at helping those practitioners who have to plan,
implement and review conservation strategies and measures to protect biodiversity
in protected areas. The framework builds on the results of a literature review and –
even more substantially – on the experience gathered in the trans disciplinary project
HABIT-CHANGE (see www.habit-change.eu), where the approach was developed,
discussed, tested and improved as a result of the close cooperation between scientists
and protected area managers. The project focused on the management of protected
habitats in large protected areas like National Parks, Biosphere Reserves and Nature
Parks in Central and Eastern Europe. Its main purpose was to integrate climate
change issues into management planning for protected areas. This process of adaptation resulted in “Climate-Change Adapted Management Plans” (CAMPs).
C. Wilke (*)
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning,
Landscape Planning and Development, Technische Universita ¨t Berlin,
Straße des 17. Juni, 10623 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: christian.wilke@alumni.tu-berlin.de
S. Rannow
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development,
Weberplatz 1, 01217 Dresden, Germany
e-mail: sven.rannow@gmx.de
S. Rannow and M. Neubert (eds.), Managing Protected Areas in Central
and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change, Advances in Global Change Research 58,
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7960-0_10, © The Author(s) 2014
159
A Methodical Framework for Climate
Change-Adapted Management
in Protected Areas
Christian Wilke and Sven Rannow
10.1 Introduction
This chapter gives practical advice and recommendations to protected area managers
on how to prepare and organise the process of adaptation to climate change. It
highlights topics and working steps that are essential in the process of adaptation
but also need special attention and good preparation in order to be successful.
In this chapter, we present an approach for adapting protected area management to
climate change based on the specific duties, tasks, and competences of protected area
managers. This approach aims at helping those practitioners who have to plan,
implement and review conservation strategies and measures to protect biodiversity
in protected areas. The framework builds on the results of a literature review and –
even more substantially – on the experience gathered in the trans disciplinary project
HABIT-CHANGE (see www.habit-change.eu), where the approach was developed,
discussed, tested and improved as a result of the close cooperation between scientists
and protected area managers. The project focused on the management of protected
habitats in large protected areas like National Parks, Biosphere Reserves and Nature
Parks in Central and Eastern Europe. Its main purpose was to integrate climate
change issues into management planning for protected areas. This process of adaptation resulted in “Climate-Change Adapted Management Plans” (CAMPs).
C. Wilke (*)
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning,
Landscape Planning and Development, Technische Universita ¨t Berlin,
Straße des 17. Juni, 10623 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: christian.wilke@alumni.tu-berlin.de
S. Rannow
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development,
Weberplatz 1, 01217 Dresden, Germany
e-mail: sven.rannow@gmx.de
S. Rannow and M. Neubert (eds.), Managing Protected Areas in Central
and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change, Advances in Global Change Research 58,
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7960-0_10, © The Author(s) 2014
159