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Scientific understanding of the relationship between people and parks is critically important to protected area management. The social sciences can and must provide usable knowledge to managers, at the appropriate scale and dealing with issues relevant to protected area management. In this paper, the social sciences are defined and described, as is the concept of usable knowledge. The ecological context of protected area management is discussed, and a research agenda for the social sciences is presented. To accomplish this agenda, an international network of Cooperative Protected Area Studies Units (CPASUs) is proposed.
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Machlis, G., Soukup, M. (1997). Usable Knowledge for National Park and Protected Area Management: A Social Science Perspective. In: Nelson, J.G., Serafin, R. (eds) National Parks and Protected Areas. NATO ASI Series, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60907-7_15
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