Sandy Paterson Appointed to IUCN ELC Protected Areas Steering Committee

Sandy Paterson has recently been appointed as a member of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre's Steering Committee tasked with overseeing the Building Capacity on Protected Areas Law and Governance Project. He has further been tasked with leading the development of the core curriculum underpinning the Project. The Project is a three-year initiative with it’s objective being to produce a set of educational tools (concentrating on a variety of easily accessible e-learning tools for different uses and audiences) to provide a ‘blended learning’ package (online learning tools, hard-copy, and face to face instruction) for teaching protected areas (PA)-relevant law at university and practitioner education levels. The overall goal is to support trainers and teachers to prepare their own courses, providing them with guidance on content to teach in their region with a view to reinforcing endogenous expertise in PA law. The principle source materials for this project are the IUCN Guidelines for Protected areas Legislation (Guidelines) (2011), the Connectivity Conservation and the Law: A Concept Paper (2013) and their corresponding case studies.