ABSTRACT
Protected areas play a large part in a sustainable world by maintaining and enhancing a wide range of values and benefits (see Chapter 4). They should also provide models for best practice conservation. Protected area management itself must therefore implement best sustainability practice. The processes and activities of protected area management consume energy and natural resources and produce wastes. Roads and buildings are constructed; light and energy for heat or cooling are used to make offices functional; human wastes must be disposed of; and so on. Managers have a responsibility to adopt sound environmental management practices and behave in a manner consistent with wider sustainability principles.
