The Panel on the Ecological Integrity of Canada's National Parks: Ten Years Later

加拿大國家公園之生態完整性委員會：十年之後

Paul F. Wilkinson

《觀光休閒學報》 17卷2期 (2011/08) Pp. 335-360

https://doi.org/10.6267/JTLS.2011.17(2)10

摘要

1988年，加拿大國家公園法案修正要求加拿大國家公園管理計畫考量公園區域與遊客利用之時，藉由自然資源保護維持生態完整性應為優先要務。十年之後，加拿大襲產部門成立加拿大國家公園生態完整性委員會檢驗指令執行程度與進行如何使得指令可以進一步達成之建議。2000年三月，部長發佈委員會報告，並且承諾假若合乎法律規定與財務可行，擬將執行全數127個建議事項。本文聚焦於檢視前述建議措施之執行與報告書發佈十年以來加拿大國家公園之事件與公開文件，涵蓋新訂加拿大國家公園法案(2001)對於生態完整性要求之強化。研究結果顯示，儘管嚴重地理政治與經濟問題與政府改組，即使並非所有全數委員會之建議均獲執行，在於生態完整性之資金、新國家公園之設立、遊客資訊與公園管理程序方面，確實具有長足進步。安大略省立法處置省立公園之衝擊亦於本文加以檢視。

關鍵字

生態完整性 ； 公園報告狀態 ； 管理規劃 ； 國家公園 ； 省立公園 ； 加拿大 ； 安大略

並列摘要

In 1988, Canada's National Parks Act was amended to require that ”maintenance of ecological integrity through the protection of natural resources shall be the first priority when considering park zoning and visitor use in a management plan” for Canada's national parks. Ten years later, the Minister of Canadian Heritage formed the Panel on the Ecological Integrity of Canada's National Parks (PEICNP) to examine the extent to which that mandate had been implemented and to make recommendations on how that mandate could be furthered. In March 2000, the Panel's report was released by the Minister with a promise to implement each of its 127 recommendations if they were legally and financially feasible. This paper focuses on monitoring the implementation of those recommendations and the events and public literature of Parks Canada in the ten years following the report's release, including the strengthening of the ecological integrity mandate in a new Canada National Parks Act (2001). It demonstrates that, while not all of the Panel's recommendations have been implemented, there has been considerable progress, despite serious geopolitical and economic problems and changing governments, in such areas as funding for ecological integrity, establishment of new national parks, visitor information, and park management procedures. The impact on legislation in Ontario dealing with provincial parks will also be examined.

並列關鍵字

ecological integrity ； state of the park report ； management plan ； national park ； provincial park ； Canada ； Ontario