Publications
Annotated Bibliography (Updated July 2022)
Selected Peer-reviewed publications
Yan, Y., Tan, S. L., Webb, E. L., Watson, J. E. M., & Carrasco, L. R. 2024. Ability of new protected areas to counteract losses from downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement. Conservation Biology, e14381. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14381
Cook, C.N., Lemieux, C.J., and Golden Kroner, R. 2024. Increasing Transparency and Accountability in Global Protected and Conserved Area Reporting. One Earth 7(3), 421–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.01.022.
Nuttall, M., Olsson, E., Washington, H., Ung, V., Bunnefeld, N., Merriman, J., Griffin, O., Hobson, K., Diment, A., & Kroner, R. G. 2023. Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement in Cambodia: Enabling conditions and opportunities for intervention. Conservation Science and Practice, 5(4), e12912. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12912
Keles, D., Pfaff, A., Mascia, M.B., Does the Selective Erasure of Protected Areas Raise Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon?. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 10(4), 1121-1147. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/723543
Albrecht, R., Cook, C. N., Andrews, O., Roberts, K. E., Taylor, M. F. J., Mascia, M. B., & Golden Kroner, R. E. 2021. Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) in marine protected areas. Marine Policy, 129, 104437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104437
Golden Kroner, R.E., Barbier, E. B., Chassot, O., Chaudhary, S., Cordova, L., Cruz-Trinidad, A., Cumming, T., Howard, J., Said, C. K., Kun, Z., Ogena, A., Palla, F., Valiente, R. S., Troëng, S., Valverde, A., Wijethunga, R., & Wong, M. 2021. COVID-era policies and economic recovery plans: Are governments building back better for protected and conserved areas? Parks, 27(Special Issue). https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.CH.2021.PARKS-27-SIRGK.en
Keles, D., Delacote, P., Pfaff, A., Qin, S., & Mascia, M. B. (2020). What Drives the Erasure of Protected Areas? Evidence from across the Brazilian Amazon. Ecological Economics, 176, 106733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106733
Hockings, M., Dudley, N., Elliot, W., Napolitano, M., MacKinnon, K., Pasha, M., Phillips, A., Woodley, S., Appleton, M., Chassot, O., Galliers, C., Golden Kroner, R., Hopkins, J., Jackson, W., Jonas, H., Mumba, M., Plowright, R., Rao, M., Redford, K., Robinson, J., Rodriguez, C.M., Sandwith, T., Spenceley, A., Stevens, C., Tabor, G., Troeng, S., Wilmore, S., and Yang, A. 2020. Editorial Essay: COVID-19 and protected and conserved areas. 18. 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2020.PARKS-26-1MH.en
Thieme, M. L., Khrystenko, D., Qin, S., Golden Kroner, R. E., Lehner, B., Pack, S., Tockner, K., Zarfl, C., Shahbol, N., & Mascia, M. B. 2020. Dams and protected areas: Quantifying the spatial and temporal extent of global dam construction within protected areas. Conservation Letters, e12719. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12719
Qin, S., R.E. Golden Kroner, C. Cook, A.T. Tesfaw, R. Braybrook, Rowan, C.M. Rodriguez, C. Poelking, M.B. Mascia. 2019. Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement as a threat to iconic protected areas. Conservation Biology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.13365
Golden Kroner, R.E., Qin, S., Cook, C., Pack, S., Krithivasan, R., Bonilla, O.D., Cort-Kansinally, K.A., Coutinho, B., Feng, M., Martinez Garcia, M.I., He, Y., Kennedy, C., Lebreton, C., Ledezma, J.C., Lovejoy, T.E., Luther, D., Parmanand, Y., Ruíz-Agudelo, C., Yerena, E., Zambrano, V.M., and Mascia, M.B. 2019. The uncertain future of protected lands and waters. Science. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6443/881
Tesfaw, A. T., Pfaff, A., Kroner, R. E. G., Qin, S., Medeiros, R., & Mascia, M. B. (2018). Land-use and land-cover change shape the sustainability and impacts of protected areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201716462. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716462115
Cook, C. N., Valkan, R. S., Mascia, M. B., & McGeoch, M. A. (2017). Quantifying the extent of protected-area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement in Australia. Conservation Biology, 31(5), 1039–1052. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12904
Pack, S. M., Ferreira, M. N., Krithivasan, R., Murrow, J., Bernard, E., & Mascia, M. B. (2016). Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) in the Amazon. Biological Conservation, 197, 32–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.02.004
Golden Kroner, R. E., Krithivasan, R., & Mascia, M. B. (2016). Effects of protected area downsizing on habitat fragmentation in Yosemite National Park (USA), 1864 - 2014. Ecology and Society, 21(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08679-210322
Symes, W. S., Rao, M., Mascia, M. B., & Carrasco, L. R. (2016). Why do we lose protected areas? Factors influencing protected area downgrading, downsizing and degazettement in the tropics and subtropics. Global Change Biology, 22(2), 656–665. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13089
Forrest, J. L., Mascia, M. B., Pailler, S., Abidin, S. Z., Araujo, M. D., Krithivasan, R., & Riveros, J. C. (2015). Tropical Deforestation and Carbon Emissions from Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement (PADDD). Conservation Letters, 8(3), 153–161. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12144
Mascia, M. B., Pailler, S., Krithivasan, R., Roshchanka, V., Burns, D., Mlotha, M. J., Murray, D. R., & Peng, N. (2014). Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, 1900–2010. Biological Conservation, 169, 355–361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.11.021
Mascia, M. B., & Pailler, S. (2011). Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) and its conservation implications. Conservation Letters, 4(1), 9–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00147.x
Other technical publications (selected)
Olsson, E., Golden Kroner, E. & Roerhdanz, R. 2022. Adoption and diffusion of the protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) concept in the scientific literature (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6647186
UNEP-WCMC. 2021. Protected Planet Report 2020. Box 3: Global figures showing net increases in protected area coverage obscure legal rollbacks.
Mascia, M.B., Pailler, S., Krithivasan, R., Qin, S., Albrecht, R., and Golden Kroner, R.E. 2020. PADDDtracker.org Technical Guide, Version 2. Conservation International, Arlington, VA and World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3608263
Mascia, M.B., Pailler, S., & Krithivasan, R. 2012. PADDDtracker.org Technical Guide (Version 1). World Wildlife Fund, Washington D.C. https://resilienceatlas.s3.amazonaws.com/PADDD/Mascia%20et%20al%202012%20PADDD%20Technical%20Guide.pdf