Crisis has enveloped the more than 200,000 nationally and regionally protected natural and cultural heritage sites around the world. Heritage managers – those who manage natural sites such as national parks, wilderness areas, and biosphere reserves, as well as those who manage cultural sites including historic monuments, battlefields, heritage cities, and ancient rock art sites – face an urgent need to confront this crisis, and each day that they don't, more of our planet's common heritage disappears. Although heritage management and implementation suffer from a lack of money, time, personnel, information, and political will, The Future Has Other Plans argues that deeper causes to current problems lurk in the discipline itself. Drawing on decades of practical experience in global heritage management and case studies from around the world, Jon Kohl and Steve McCool provide an innovative solution for conserving these valuable protected areas. Merging interdisciplinary and evolving management paradigms, the authors introduce a new kind of holistic planning approach that integrates the practice of heritage management and conservation with operational realities.   This book has been reviewed in Parks Journal (IUCN; Dr. Karen Vella), Built Heritage Journal (Dr. Ryan Sharp), Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events (Dr. Betty Weiler) , Journal of Community Archeology and Heritage (Prof. Blake Belanger), privately on LinkedIn by Francisco Valenzuela . See below. The authors of a book matter; and these authors matter, including Dr. Sam Ham the applied communication series editor. I have met and am anadmirer of these consummate professionals and academics. Kohl comes from the perspective of a professional practitioner who has beenfighting battles trying to make significant, lasting positive change inthe management of protected areas around the world for decades. Myimpression of him which comes out in this book is that key to thesuccess of any major planning effort is personal and organizationalintegrity. Integrity is the underlying theme of this book in the sense that professionals and the planning process they lead must be in thestate of being whole and undivided. In that sense this book is like a self-help book for planners dedicated to making a realand meaningful contribution to stewardship of natural andcultural heritage. To achieve a community's or protected area's desiredfuture means that planners must have must first start with ourselves.To that end this publication calls on the visionary work of Ken Wilberand his Integral map and Dr. Tam Lundy and her work in human andcommunity development and Dr. Otto Scharmer and his "Theory U" and applies these frameworks to protected areaplanning and implementation. This is the book's strength and weakness.Weakness only because you may think you need to believe these theoriesas strong foundations to build a successful plan on. I would say you do not need to believe these theories but instead trust the authors' experience. They pass on wisdom and the theories provide astructured way to understand this wisdom. Those of us who have been in the field of managing protected areashave seen so many plans produced, but never implemented, so muchinfrastructure built, but never maintained, so many consultants come and then go, leaving nothing of value, and so many sad failures. I have no doubt that this book provides the critical humanguidelines for success. Planning is primarily a social enterprise. Thebook touches on some technical aspects of recreation/protected areaplanning but this is not the emphasis. While theprivate sector and most government planning agencies have moved beyondthe long-range rational plan as a technical process to more strategicand lean process full of learning and emergentstrategies, public land use plans are trapped in the past with a veryacademic perspective. Consequently most of these plans are neverimplemented because by the time they are done the future has moved on or they never gained the public support needed for implementation. Most other protected area planning books like "Managing Protected Areas; A Global Guide" are more a collection of bestpractices and tools; this book is about the necessary relationships andmindset needed before any of these practices can be successful. Ifprotected area planning and management is a tree, this book is aboutwhat is going on below the ground that allows the tree toflourish. That below ground invisible aspect is often what is mostneglected and yet it's the most important part of planning. In the end the authors propose "Holistic Planning". Theyprovide principles and an outline for that would be but do not gointo detail. I read this book over 2 weeks and felt enriched butwanting more. This is not the fault of this book because I think this'more' is another book that addresses the how and what of Holistic Planning means on the ground. I highly recommend all students and professi