Services:  Conservation and Sustainability

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Resolve Global offers general services in the fields of conservation and sustainability, with specific expertise in Protected Areas and World Heritage as well as Environmental Planning and Management.

Protected Areas and World Heritage Protected areas such as national parks, marine parks and nature reserves are the primary tool for protecting the world’s biodiversity. They also provide opportunities for communities to recreate and experience nature for physical, social and spiritual benefits. Protected areas are under increasing threat from development, illegal activities, over use and climate change. Resolve Global is able to deliver new community-based approaches and innovative solutions for protected area governance and management.

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World Heritage Areas provide particular challenges for communities because of the real and perceived constraints such designations create. Resolve Global works with communities and protected area agencies to equip them with the skills and knowledge to achieve cooperative management with mutually beneficial outcomes.

The Resolve Global team has extensive experience in protected area and World Heritage Area management with particular skills in community involvement, national park planning, protected area policy and visitor research.

Specific services include: Socio-environmental research Recreation ecology research Visitor research visitor and community surveys Protected area and world heritage planning Tourism sustainability planning Tourism environmental and sustainability assessment Protected area policy development Socio-economic valuation

Resolve Global is available to assist protected area agencies with sustainable tourism planning, recreation planning, coastal recreation planning and development, stakeholder and neighbour negotiation and joint management arrangements.

Areas of particular interest include climate change impacts on protected area tourism, park-community-tourism relations and recreation and tourism planning in water catchments.

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Environmental Planning and Management

Resolve Global provides specialist consulting services in tourism-environmental planning and research. This includes the provision of advice in the areas of resource efficiency, low impact facility design and operations, sustainable ecotourism-nature based tourism development, wildlife tourism, and land capability assessment for tourism.