The World s Protected Areas: Status, Values and Prospects in the 21st Century - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0520246608 ISBN 13: 9780520246607

Verlag: University of California Press, 2008

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"Represents an important contribution to the environmental literature and should be in all libraries." Choice: Current Reviews For Academic Libraries 20090615 "Timely [and] authoritative... Reflects the latest thinking about protected-area management... The book usefully examines the various approaches that are being applied around the world." Bioscience 20090729 "Concise, comprehensive and very informative." Eco.mont 20100712

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Extensively illustrated with maps, color photographs, and graphics, this state-of-the-art reference offers a comprehensive and authoritative status report on the world's 100,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas currently designated as protected areas. Now covering over 12 per cent of the Earth's land surface, protected areas are the great strongholds of biodiversity and landscape conservation. They also provide a wide range of valuable ecosystem services: protecting food and water supplies; regulating weather patterns; protecting watersheds and coastlines from erosion; maintaining places of historical or cultural significance for recreation, solace or spiritual wellbeing; generating income and employment from tourism; and, more. This timely volume offers a benchmark overview of where these protected areas exist worldwide, what they have and have not accomplished, what threats they face, and how they can be better managed to achieve the goals of conserving biodiversity and other natural resources. It is co-published by UNEP-WCMC.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0520246608
• ISBN 13: 9780520246607
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376
• Herausgeber: Chape Stuart, Spalding Mark D., Jenkins M.D.