The World's Protected Areas: Status, Values and Prospects in the 21st CenturyStuart Chape, Mark Spalding, Martin Jenkins Univ de Castilla La Mancha, 2008 - 359页 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 percent 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. Copub: UNEP-WCMC |
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7 | |
South Asia | 52 |
Eastern and Southern Africa | 62 |
Cultural Heritage Management | 73 |
Tables | 155 |
Global blueprints for protected areas | 164 |
Climate change and ecological | 171 |
networks | 195 |
160 | 202 |
Boxes | 210 |
1 | 218 |
North Africa and the Middle East | 258 |
Northern Eurasia | 268 |
International protected areas | 318 |
常见术语和短语
activities agencies agriculture area km² area protected Asia assessment Australia biodiversity biological diversity biosphere reserves Brazil Caribbean Central America climate change coastal communities conservation areas Convention corridors countries cultural designated dry forests ecological ecoregions ecosystems endemic environmental evaluation example fisheries fishing freshwater global grasslands habitat human impacts implementation important increased indigenous inland water ecosystems invasive species Islands IUCN IUCN category km² known establishment date landscape levels major management effectiveness management of protected marine protected areas ment million km² monitoring mountain MPAs National Park natural resources nature reserves North America North Eurasia number of sites Ocean Pacific percent populations protected area management protected area network protected area systems Ramsar Convention Ramsar sites range region sites with unknown South species stakeholders sustainable targets terrestrial threats tourism values WCPA WDPA wetland wildlife World Heritage sites World Parks Congress zone