Arguments for Protected Areas

Multiple Benefits for Conservation and Use
Herausgeber: Stolton, Sue; Dudley, Nigel

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781844078813
• ISBN-10: 1844078817
• Artikelnr.: 27197679

Autorenporträt

Nigel Dudley of Equilbrium Research ,based in Bristol, UK, is an ecologist and consultant working on issues relating to forest conservation, protected areas and broad scale approaches to conservation, co-author with Rodolphe Shlaepfer, William Jackson, Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud and Sue Stolton of Forest Quality (2006) and co-editor with Sue Stolton of Partnerships for Protection (1999.) Sue Stolton, also of Equilibrium Research, specialises in issues relating to protected areas and the assessment of conservation actions.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Arguments for Protected Areas
1. Protected Areas: Linking Environment and Well-Being
2. Vital Sites: Protected Areas Supporting Health and Recreation
Case study 2.1: Protecting Medicinal Resources in Colombia
Case Study 2.2: Parks Victoria (Australia) 'Healthy
Parks Healthy People Initiative'
3. Running Pure: Protected Areas Maintaining Purity and Quantity of Urban
Water Supplies
Case Study 3.1: Protecting Water Supplies to Caracas, Venezuela
4. Food Stores: Protected Areas Conserving Crop Wild Relatives and Securing
Future Food Stocks
Case Study 4.1: Crop Genetic Diversity Protection in Turkey
Case Study 4.2: Conservation of Endangered CWRs in Mexico's Sierra de
Manantl n
5. Nursery Tails: Protected Areas Conserving Wild Marine and Freshwater
Fish Stocks
Case Study 5.1: Freshwater Fishery Sustainability in Lake Malawi, East
Africa
Case Study 5.2: Managing and Monitoring Success: The Story of Tubbataha
Reefs, Philippines
6. Natural Security: Protected Areas and Hazard Mitigation
Case Study 6.1: Environmental Degradation and The Indian Ocean Tsunami of
2004
Case Study 6.2: Restoration and Protection Plan to Reduce Flooding in the
Lower Danube
7. Safety Net: Protected Areas Contributing to Human Well-Being
Case Study 7.1: Population-Health-Environment Approaches in Kiunga Marine
National Reserve, Kenya
8. Beyond Belief: Linking Faiths and Protected Areas to Support
Biodiversity Conservation
Case Study 8.1: The Ancient Sacred Natural Sites in Al Hoceima National
Park, Morocco
9. Living Traditions: Protected Areas and Cultural Diversity
Case Study 9.1: Angkor Wat Protected Landscape: Where Culture, Nature and
Spirit Meet
Case Study 9.2: Inuit Partnerships in the Torngat Mountains National Park,
Canada
10. Diverting Places: Linking Travel, Pleasure and Protection
Case Study 10.1: Managing Tourism in South Korea's Protected Area System
11. Climate Change: The Role of Protected Areas in Mitigati