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SANParks Research Strategy 2020

This research strategy aims to facilitate and enable the generation, translation, sharing and uptake of research-related knowledge, information and experience, and build organisational capacity to more effectively manage biodiversity in, create societal benefits from, and promote sustainability of, national parks in an ever-changing socio-ecological context.

In addition, it underlies the ethos of adaptive management and encourages learning through doing by monitoring, evaluating, reflecting on and reporting progress. It also highlights strategic thematic areas to guide and actively encourage a broadened future direction of research endeavours.

SANParks Research Strategy 2020

Dr Danny Govender

Dr Danny Govender

General Manager: Sustainable Development and Management

Dr Stefanie Freitag-Ronaldson

Dr Stefanie Freitag-Ronaldson

GM: Garden Route and Frontier Research Unit

Dr Izak PJ Smit

Dr Izak PJ Smit

Senior Scientist

Prof Dirk Roux

Prof Dirk Roux

Specialist Scientist: Social-Ecological Systems

Dr Nicola van Wilgen

Dr Nicola van Wilgen

Global Change Scientist


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