The World's Protected Areas

The World's Protected Areas
Author: Stuart Chape
Publisher: Univ de Castilla La Mancha
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2008
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780520246607

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"Illustrated with maps, color photographs, and graphics, this reference offers a comprehensive status report on the world's 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas designated as protected areas. It offers an overview of what these protected areas have and have not accomplished and what threats they face." -- Provided by publisher.

Managing Protected Areas

Managing Protected Areas
Author: Michael Lockwood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 842
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1136561757

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This handbook, produced by world renowned experts from the World Conservation Union (IUCN), spans the full terrain of protected area management and is the international benchmark for the field. The book employs dozens of detailed international cases studies, hundreds of concise topical snapshots, maps, tables, illustrations and a colour plate section, as well as evaluation tools, checklists and numerous appendices to cover all aspects of park management from biodiversity to natural heritage to financial management. The book establishes a conceptual underpinning for protected area management, presents guiding principles for the 21st century, reflects recent work on international best practice and provides an assessment of skills required by professionals. As the most authoritative guide ever compiled to the principles and practice of protected area management, this volume is essential for all professionals and students in all countries and contexts.

Protecting Nature

Protecting Nature
Author: Jeffrey A. McNeely
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1994
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9782831701196

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This volume describes the major issues facing protected areas, both terrestrial and marine, and discusses the approaches needed to address these issues. An additional section, drawing upon the expertise of CNPPA's vice-chair, marine, and members of 14 task forces, specifically addresses protected area issues in the coastal marine environment.

GEO Year Book 2006

GEO Year Book 2006
Author:
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
Total Pages: 92
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9280726684

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The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests

The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests
Author: Caroline Harcourt
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1996
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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This final volume in the The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests covers the Americas. It provides an up-to-date overview of the status of rain forests in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Following the format of the two previous volumes The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific (1991) and The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Africa (1992), the atlas is divided into two parts. Part I introduces and discusses the complex interrelated issues in the regions that are involved in both deforestation as well as conservation of the tropical forests. Included are discussions on the history of the forests, agricultural colonization policies and deforestation, conservation polices for plants and wildlife, protected areas, and the future of the tropical forests. Part II is a detailed and well referenced country-by-country analysis of conservation status and trends. Four-colour maps have been compiled from satellite and radar imagery, aerial photography, and the latest information provided by forestry departments and development agencies.