Governance of protected landscapes and its implications for economic evaluation

The goal of this chapter is to provide an introduction to the governance of protected landscapes and to shed some new light on how the increasing complexity of this topic requires a multifaceted and nuanced economic evaluation approach. Because the term “governance” – and especially its relation to “protected areas” – is crucial to this chapter, we will in this introductory section first elaborate on these two items, before we briefly outline the structure of this chapter.