Marc HOCKINGS

Marc Hockings is Emeritus Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland. He is a long-term member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) through its World Commission on Protected Areas where he leads the Green List Standard and Management Effectiveness Specialist Group. He is also a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and the Commission on Ecosystem Management. Marc was the principal author of the IUCN’s best practice guidelines on evaluation of management effectiveness in protected areas. He has led international projects to evaluate management of protected areas in South Korea, Colombia, Ecuador and Thailand. He is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on the evaluation of management effectiveness of protected areas and is the WCPA lead in the development of an IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas in collaboration with staff at IUCN. He is an honorary Senior Fellow at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, UK. Marc is Managing Editor of the IUCN journal PARKS. In 2008, he received the Kenton R. Miller Award for Innovation in Protected Area Sustainability for his work on management effectiveness.

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