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related: iucn, tapas

Key Links: http://www.solutionsexplorer.org http://www.panorama.solutions

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[|About Panorama - Inspiring Protected Area Solutions (IPAS)]
The Panorama is an effort to collate case studies that showcase how protected areas provide solutions to some of the world’s challenges – we call these case studies Inspiring Protected Areas Solutions. The Panorama allows practitioners to share their stories and to learn about how others have tackled problems related to protected areas across the globe. An initial portfolio of solution case studies was launched at the IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC) 2014 in Sydney, together with the first prototype of the online platform.

The congress was leveraged as an opportunity to complement this portfolio with a multitude of "solution stories" from participants.

What are Inspiring Protected Area Solutions? Criteria for Solutions:
 * 1) Replicable and/or scalable
 * (Components of) the Solution can be applied, with slight modifications, in other geographic, social or sectoral contexts
 * (Components of ) the Solution can be applied at a larger geographic scale
 * 1) Topic relevant
 * The Solution is implemented in, or for the benefit of, protected areas
 * A Solution has successfully addressed a specific issue in a specific place (site or network of sites)


 * 1) Impactful
 * The Solution has had a proven (measured, testified…) impact
 * Solutions are more than mere ideas

Inspiring Protected Area Solutions demonstrate success: For Parks: They show fair and positive ways to conserve natural and cultural diversity, involving governments, businesses and citizens in establishing and managing protected areas For People: They inspire people around the world and across generations to reconnect with nature, and support people’s lives For the Planet: They demonstrate how nature provides solutions to challenges facing our planet such as climate change, health, food and water security. A solution is comprised of distinct key components, or building blocks, that can be replicated. Building blocks may be adapted and recombined with others to address specific challenges in other socio-cultural, ecological, political or economic contexts, sectors, or geographies. Sharing your solution and distilling the components that have made it work supports inter-sectorial knowledge transfer and enables mutual learning. The aim is to inspire others to replicate tools, methods, processes and approaches that have worked before in and for protected areas. Replicating success across silos The Panorama has evolved from related efforts, particularly the Blue Solutions initiative, in which IUCN is a partner. It also builds on IUCN’s engagement with the Resilience Exchange, an initiative to accelerate the pace of social change by identifying, sharing and replicating development solutions. The ultimate goal of these efforts is to enable learning from success across geography, sector and scale, transforming the way that we view solutions: not as fixed, context-specific proof-points, but instead as successes that can be leveraged to inspire and catalyse progress. By borrowing from other sectors, and encouraging sharing across geographies, we can establish new learning networks to ultimately strengthen protected area systems.

A new web platform, the [|Solutions Explorer], is envisioned to realize this goal of assembling solutions from various sectors and topics. The Solutions Explorer currently hosts Inspiring Protected Area Solutions from Panorama, as well as marine and coastal solutions gathered through the Blue Solutions initiative. This new platform will gradually replace the current Panorama prototype website. Visit the Solutions Explorer here.

Related inks: IUCN’s work on protected areas

Blue Solutions

Resilience Exchange

    Links to recordings for the twin IUCN Panorama tourism and protected areas webinars! Webinar 1< [] > Webinar 2 < [] >

All presentations here < [] >.

If you'd like to get involved in the Panorama initiative< [] >, please be in touch with Marie Fischborn: marie.fischborn@iucn.org (see details below)

Marie Fischborn Programme Officer, Protected Area Solutions Global Protected Areas Programme IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Basel, Switzerland Tel: +41229990304 < tel/%2B41229990304 >; Skype: marie.fischborniucn [|www.iucn.org] < [|http://www.iucn.org] >< [] > [|www.panorama.solutions] < [|http://www.panorama.solutions] >