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9780520246607

World's Protected Areas Status, Values, and Prospects in the Twenty-first Century

World's Protected Areas Status, Values, and Prospects in the Twenty-first Century
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  • ISBN-13: 9780520246607
  • ISBN: 0520246608
  • Edition: 1
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Publisher: University of California Press

AUTHOR

Jenkins, Martin D., Chape, Stuart, Spalding, Mark D.

SUMMARY

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 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas currently designated as protected areas. Now covering about 12% of the Earth's surface, protected areas provide a wide range of valuable ecological benefits: they contribute to biodiversity conservation; supply food, water, and other resources; regulate weather patterns; contain potential medicines; generate income at local, regional, and national levels through 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.Jenkins, Martin D. is the author of 'World's Protected Areas Status, Values, and Prospects in the Twenty-first Century', published 2008 under ISBN 9780520246607 and ISBN 0520246608.

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