TRP 3.5

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Competence Level

Category name:

Tourism recreation and public use

Category code:

TRP

Category function:

Providing environmentally and economically sustainable tourism and recreation opportunities in and around protected areas.

Competence level:

LEVEL 3

Code:

Scope of work:

Direction and management of medium sized organisations.

Typical function:

SENIOR MANAGER

Knowledge statement:

Ensure monitoring and management of the impacts of public use.

Knowledge criterion:

Potential range of impacts of recreation and public use and of options for impact reduction. Species ecosystems and locations that are particularly vulnerable. Approaches for defining carrying capacities and determining limits of acceptable change. Impact monitoring techniques.

Performance criterion:

Identifying/predicting/monitoring negative environmental impacts of public use of a protected area (e.g. killing and disturbance of wildlife habitat damage erosion waste pollution vandalism pest species). Identifying/predicting/monitoring social and cultural impacts of public use of a protected area (e.g. erosion of local cultures unfair competition with local businesses behaviours and practices unacceptable to local sensitivities etc.) Developing suitable solutions (in collaboration with users and local stakeholders) for elimination or reduction of impacts. Introducing limits on activity on the basis of carrying capacity and/or limits of acceptable change.