Book ID: 92210
Chape, Stuart, Mark D. Spalding and Martin D. Jenkins (eds.)
The World's Protected Areas. Status, Values, and Prospects in the Twenty- first Century. 2007. 118 col. photogr. 396 line drawings. 64 col. maps. tabs. illus. XV, 359 p. 4to. Hardcover.
This state-of-the-art reference offers a comprehensive andauthoritative status report on the world's 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas currently designated as protected areas. It offers a benchmark overview of where the protectedareas exist worldwide, what they have and have not accomplished, whatthreats they face, and how they can be better managed to achieve thegoals of conserving biodiversity and other natural resources.