Editorial: Responding to disasters - the role of protected areas Yoshitaka Kumagai, Naoya Futura, Nigel Dudley, Nobukazu Naniwa and Radhika Murti

Nature needs half: a necessary and hopeful new agenda for protected areas Harvey Locke

The Serengeti of Asia: conservation in two major protected areas of the eastern plains landscape protected area complex, Cambodia Rohit Singh, Phan Channa, Prum Sovanna, Pin Chanratana, Gerard Ryan and Mark Wright

The vulnerability of communities around the marine protected areas of Bamboung, Cayar and Joal-Fadiouth in Senegal: places of adaptation to climate change Aby Drame and Pr Bienvenu Sambou

Improving the sustainable operation of a world heritage site: increasing energy efficiency and implementing a renewable energy system on Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles Christina Quanz, Nancy Bunbury and Frauke Fleischer-Dogley

Multi-level co-management in government-designated protected areas – opportunities to learn from models in mainland Southeast Asia John W.K. Parr, Paul Insua-Cao, Hoang Van Lam, Hoang Van Tue, Nguyen Bich Ha, Nguyen Van Lam, Nguyen Ngoc Quang, Nguyen The Cuong and Brian Crudge

The three new R’s for protected areas: repurpose, reposition and reinvest Jamison Ervin

A draft code of practice for research and monitoring in protected areas Marc Hockings, William Adams, Thomas M. Brooks, Nigel Dudley, Holly Jonas, Wayne Lotter, Vinod Mathur, Rauno Väisänen and Stephen Woodley

Transboundary protected areas management: experiences from W-Arly-Pendjari parks in West Africa Isidore O. Amahowé, Laurent G. Houessou, Soulemane Ashanti and Aristide C. Tehou