ABSTRACT
Evolution of the contexts for governance over protected areas is a matter about governance generally. While local situations will remain critically important for dealing with such issues, everything that happens locally isn’t caused there. The importance of ‘global change’ that sets the larger contexts for local governance has also to be considered. But how? The two lead-in epigraphs capture the larger quandary underlying this situation. Similar concerns are being addressed in most countries either in the context of ‘governability’ generally, or in other contexts, such as managing resource systems for sustainability that include a strong conservation component.
