John W K Parr

Biographic Data

ID5582747
NAMEJohn W K Parr
GIVEN NAMESJohn W K
FAMILY NAMEParr
SIGNATUREPARR J W K
AFFILIATIONSProtected area management specialist, Vientiane, Lao PDR
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Strengthening National Wildlife Enforcement Networks

    Open AccessJohn W K Parr, Michael Brocklehurst et al.ARTICLEPARKS2026

    The roles of protected area law enforcement personnel are largely confined to protected areas and their buffer zones, with strong emphasis on core responsibilities for wildlife protection. Little attention is given to a potential role in strengthening wildlife crime enforcement within subnational or provincial landscapes, particularly through cooperation with provincial law enforcement bodies. This paper examines wildlife crime cases encountered …

  • Lessons learned on governance from a gap analysis assessment in Nam Et-Phou Louey National Park, northern LAO PDR

    Open AccessJohn W K Parr, Teaunchay Phongkhamphanh et al.ARTICLEPARKS2024

    In Southeast Asia, the collaborative management system within government managed protected areas is one of the least well understood fields of protected area management. The large scale of these natural landscapes, the diversity of management issues found within them, and the diversity of actors to be engaged at the different administrative levels make the mechanisms for implementing effective collaborative management unclear. In December 2022, t…

  • Evaluating Collaborative Management within the National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries of Bangladesh

    Open AccessShams Uddin, John W K ParrARTICLEPARKS2018

    The protected area system of Bangladesh in March 2017 comprised 17 national parks covering 45,740 hectares and 21 wildlife sanctuaries covering 394,053 hectares. The Government of Bangladesh introduced collaborative management in these reserves in three successive, expanding phases undertaken between 2003 up until the present time. During this period, the successive programmes introduced an elaborate collaborative management system. This paper ev…

  • Collaborative governance improves management effectiveness of Hin Nam No National Protected Area in Central Lao PDR

    Open AccessMirjam De Koning, John W K Parr et al.ARTICLEPARKS2016

    This paper examines the multi-level collaborative governance system in Hin Nam No National Protected Area in central Lao PDR. The paper assesses the governance and management system's potential as an exemplar to protected areas practitioners, and discusses how such a system might be initiated and replicated elsewhere in the country and the region. Five building blocks of an experimental collaborative governance model are described. These comprise…

  • Institutional Analysis of Multi-level Collaborative Management in Periyar Tiger Reserve, Southern India

    Open AccessJohn W K ParrARTICLEPARKS2015

    There are few cases where institutional mappings of multi-level arrangements for collaborative management have been conducted. If at all documented, these experiences remain unevaluated. Periyar Tiger Reserve in the Southern Western Ghats is a well-resourced government-managed protected area that extends management interventions into the buffer zone. It has been designated as a Learning Centre of Excellence by the Government of India, and recogni…

  • Multi-level co-management in government-designated protected areas – opportunities to learn from models in mainland Southeast Asia

    Open AccessJohn W K Parr, Paul Insua-Cao et al.ARTICLEPARKS2013

    There is broad consensus that the ecological-social landscapes for government-designated protected areas should comprise core areas and their surrounding buffer zones and that the essential tasks for managing these landscapes should comprise: (i) ecological research and monitoring, (ii) law enforcement, (iii) community outreach and awareness raising, (iv) community livelihoods development and engagement with community managed lands, (v) ecotouris…