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The book focuses on the relationship between nature conservation policies and landscape policies. This is a relevant subject due to the current need of reviving nature conservation policies, which are today affected by a general effectiveness deficiency. To this end, landscape policies can play a crucial role, bridging nature and culture, fostering more integrated approaches to nature conservation and stimulating the active participation of local communities. The book gathers reflections, researches and experiences developed on an international level on this subject by experts coming from different international contexts (Europe, U.S.A.), various disciplinary backgrounds (geographers, planners, biologists, historians, jurists, economists, etc.) and several institutional bodies (Universities, administrative bodies, international organizations such as IUCN, EUROPARC Federation, UNESCO, etc.). The overall reflections gathered in the book - which is divided in three main sections: regulations and institutional frameworks, policies, actions and tools - combine to suggest innovative visions about the relationships between nature policies and landscape policies.
Geography. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Nature Conservation. --- Géographie --- Cultural landscapes. --- Landscape changes. --- Change, Landscape --- Urban geography. --- Nature conservation. --- Geomorphology --- Cultural geography --- Landscapes --- Landscape archaeology --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Conservation --- Geography
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The global agenda of Nature conservation has led to the creation of the Masoala National Park in Madagascar and to an exhibit in its support at a Swiss zoo, the centerpiece of which is a mini-rainforest replica. Does such a cooperation also trigger a connection between ordinary people in these two far-flung places? The study investigates how the Malagasy farmers living at the edge of the park perceive the conservation enterprise and what people in Switzerland see when looking towards Madagascar through the lens of the zoo exhibit. It crystallizes that the stories told in either place have alm
Nature conservation --- Rain forest conservation. --- Nature --- Social aspects --- Effect of human beings on --- Parc national de Masoala (Madagascar) --- Social aspects. --- Rain forest conservation --- Forest conservation --- Conservation of nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Conservation --- Masoala National Park (Madagascar)
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Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passé. Conservation, they argue, should instead focus on lands managed for human use—working landscapes—and abandon the goal of preventing human-caused extinctions in favor of maintaining ecosystem services to support people. If such arguments take hold, we risk losing support for the unique qualities and values of wild, undeveloped nature. Protecting the Wild offers a spirited argument for the robust protection of the natural world. In it, experts from five continents reaffirm that parks, wilderness areas, and other reserves are an indispensable—albeit insufficient—means to sustain species, subspecies, key habitats, ecological processes, and evolutionary potential. A companion volume to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth, Protecting the Wild provides a necessary addition to the conversation about the future of conservation in the so-called Anthropocene, one that will be useful for academics, policymakers, and conservation practitioners at all levels, from local land trusts to international NGOs.
Environment. --- Nature Conservation. --- Environmental sciences. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- National parks and reserves. --- Nature conservation. --- Protected areas. --- Wilderness areas. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Lands, Protected wild --- Places, Protected wild --- Protected wild lands --- Protected wild places --- Protected wildlands --- Regions, Wilderness --- Wild lands, Protected --- Wild places, Protected --- Wilderness areas --- Wilderness regions --- Wildlands, Protected --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation --- National parks and reserves --- Natural areas --- Protected areas --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems
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"Ecosystems today are dynamic and complex, leaving conservationists faced with the paradox of conserving moving targets. New approaches to conservation are now required that aim to conserve ecological function and process, rather than attempt to protect static snapshots of biodiversity. To do this effectively, long-term information on ecosystem variability and resilience is needed. While there is a wealth of such information in palaeoecology, archaeology, and historical ecology, it remains an underused resource by conservation ecologists. In bringing together the disciplines of neo- and palaeoecology and integrating them with conservation biology, this novel text illustrates how an understanding of long-term change in ecosystems can in turn inform and influence their conservation and management in the Anthropocene. By looking at the history of traditional management, climate change, disturbance, and land-use, the book describes how a long-term perspective on landscape change can inform current and pressing conservation questions such as whether elephants should be culled, how best to manage fire, and whether ecosystems can or should be "re-wilded"."--
Biodiversity conservation. --- Paleoecology. --- Environmental management. --- Nature conservation. --- Landscape ecology. --- Ecology --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Palaeoecology --- Paleobiology --- Biodiversity --- Biological diversity conservation --- Conservation of biodiversity --- Diversity conservation, Biological --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Maintenance of biological diversity --- Preservation of biological diversity --- Ecosystem management --- Conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Paleoecology --- Environmental management --- Nature conservation --- Landscape ecology
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Many people working toward sustainability recognize the important role of conservation but are inadequately prepared to deal with the large spatial, temporal, and complexity scales that are involved in large-scale conservation efforts. Problems in large-scale conservation require navigating an intermixture of geophysical, biological, and political dimensions. Coming to grips with these many natural and human forces and factors at large scales, much less the myriad details in any single case, is challenging in the extreme and becomes more critical with each day that passes. Large-scale conservation poses many complex challenges that single disciplines, approaches, or methods cannot fully address alone. Interdisciplinarity can significantly strengthen large-scale conservation efforts. Throughout Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest the editors and authors argue that a more holistic and genuinely interdisciplinary approach is required to solve the complex and growing challenges associated with large-scale conservation. The chapters within offer such an approach and define key terms, bring challenges to light, and employ case studies to offer concrete practical and strategic recommendations to help those who are engaged in the interactive tasks of promoting sustainability and human dignity. This book is intended for a broad audience, including students and professors new to the field of large-scale conservation, experienced field-based practitioners in science and management, and decision and policy makers who set specific and strategic direction for large landscapes. Professors can use this book to introduce students to the challenges of successful large-scale conservation design and implementation and to teach interdisciplinarity as a framework, concept, and tool. Professionals will find this book offers a new way of using science, management, and policy to make decisions. Finally, this volume can be used as a guide to set up workshops, seminars, or projects involving diverse people and perspectives.
Environment. --- Environmental Management. --- Nature Conservation. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental management. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Environnement --- Droit --- Gestion --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Conservation biology. --- Environmental policy. --- Nature conservation. --- Ecology --- Nature conservation --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- Environmental policy --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Law and legislation --- Conservation --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy
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This unique book is dedicated to helping promote geoheritage, geoconservation, and geoparks in Africa and the Middle East. Local, regional, global and thematic case studies including a geoheritage toolkit are used to illustrate the scope and depth of geoheritage and highlight some current geoparks and aspiring candidates in Africa, the Middle East, China , Europe,and Australia. This special issue mainly consists of the proceedings of the First International Conference on Geoparks in Africa and Middle East (FICGAME) held in, El Jadida, Morocco in 2011. The conference, hosted by the Faculty of Sciences of Chouaib Doukkali University, was organized by the African Geoparks Network and the African Association of Women in Geosciences incollaboration with the UNESCO Cairo Office.
Environment. --- Nature Conservation. --- Geology. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental management. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Géologie --- Environnement --- Gestion --- Conservation of natural resources -- Social aspects -- Africa. --- Ecotourism. --- Geology -- Social aspects. --- Geoparks -- Africa -- Case studies. --- Geoparks -- Case studies. --- Geoparks -- Middle East -- Case studies. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Geography, Ancient --- Ancient geography --- Geography --- Nature conservation. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Conservation
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"River Dynamics and Integrated River Management” provides comprehensive information on rivers for integrated management, including natural processes, stresses resulting from human activities, and restoration of various parts of the river basin, including the watershed, mountain streams, alluvial rivers, estuaries, and natural and man-made lakes. Essential concepts, traditional and modern, such as river patterns, step-pool systems, vegetation-erosion charts, habitat diversity, and flushing times of bays, are clearly defined physically and explained with figures and pictures. Detailed mathematics and rigorous analyses are avoided so as to facilitate a holistic view of the subject of integrated river management. Researchers can easily familiarize themselves with the science of river management in its widest sense with the impressive pictures and examples in this book. Dr. Zhaoyin Wang is a professor at the Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. Dr. Joseph H.W. Lee is a Chair Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China. Dr. Charles S. Melching is a Professor at the College of Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Environment. --- Environmental Management. --- Hydrology/Water Resources. --- Geoecology/Natural Processes. --- Nature Conservation. --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental management. --- Ecology. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Environnement --- Ecologie --- Gestion --- Rivers -- Regulation -- Environmental aspects. --- Rivers -- Regulation. --- Stream channelization. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Water resources development. --- Hydrology. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Geoecology. --- Environmental geology. --- Nature conservation. --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Energy development --- Natural resources --- Water-supply --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Conservation --- Ecology --- Geoecology --- Environmental protection --- Physical geology
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The book introduces tourism earth-science as a new scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth-science in the study of natural and human tourism resources. It involves studying the geo-scientific characteristics of these tourism resources through surveys, evaluation and aesthetic value assessment. It also discusses about the principles behind geopark establishment and management. It is an important publication providing direction for geopark and tourism developments in China. The book is a tool for geological heritage survey, assessment and research. It can also be used to assist planning of geopark, national parks, heritage protection and scientific interpretation. It is a valuable teaching material for teachers and students of geoscience and tourism as well as providing useful guidance for geopark managers and tour guides in their operation. In addition, the book also offers scientific knowledge of the surrounding natural and cultural landscapes to the public and the general visitors.
Geography. --- World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions). --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Nature Conservation. --- Tourism Management. --- Géographie --- Ecotourism. --- Geotourism. --- Geo-tourism --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Tourism. --- Management. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Physical geography. --- Nature conservation. --- Tourism --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Economic aspects --- Conservation --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Geography
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El archipiélago de las Galápagos, catalogado como «patrimonio natural de la humanidad», alberga un parque nacional prestigioso que cuenta con ayuda internacional considerable. Destinado a facilitar las investigaciones naturalistas y en principio a servir de modelo para nuevas formas de valorización turística más respetuosas del entorno (ecoturismo), este parque es hoy en día objeto de muchas críticas. El desarrollo de las redes turísticas y migratorias ha acelerado la conexión del archipiélago al territorio ecuatoriano y al mercado mundial. La naturaleza «protegida» se ha convertido en un espacio sometido a las exigencias de rentabilidad de un mundo caracterizado por la mercantilización y la uniformización de los lugares. Esta «conservación contra natura» tiene consecuencias catastróficas para los ecosistemas y los habitantes del archipiélago. Más allá del estudio de una región emblemática, el autor hace una reflexión sobre el sitio del hombre en la naturaleza, verdadero alegato en favor de la preservación de la geodiversidad. Su obra innovadora y estimulante se dirige a todos los actores preocupados por el porvenir de nuestro planeta. Esta edición en español ha sido enriquecida con un epílogo escrito por el autor diez años más tarde, después de dos nuevas misiones en las islas en 2001 y 2005.
Ecotourism --- Nature conservation --- Galapagos Islands --- Environmental aspects. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Tourism --- Conservation --- Galápagos (Ecuador : Province) --- Archipiélago de Colón --- Colón, Archipiélago de --- Archipelago of Galápagos --- Enchanted Islands --- Islas Encantadas --- Islas Galápagos --- Iye ha-Galapagos --- Archipiélago de Colón (Ecuador) --- Archipiélago de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia Insular de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Territorio de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Provincia de Galápagos (Ecuador) --- Equateur --- Galápagos --- protection --- environnement --- écotourisme --- diversité biologique --- ressources naturelles
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This book is a critical analysis of the concept of marine protected areas (MPAs) particularly as a tool for marine resource management. It explains the reasons for the extraordinary rise of MPAs to the top of the political agenda for marine policy, and evaluates the scientific credentials for the unprecedented popularity of this management option. The book reveals the role played by two policy networks – epistemic community and advocacy coalition – in promoting the notion of MPA, showing how advocacy for marine reserves by some scientists based on limited evidence of fisheries benefits has led to a blurring of the boundary between science and politics. Second, the study investigates whether the scientific consensus on MPAs has resulted in a publication bias, whereby pro-MPA articles are given preferential treatment by peer-reviewed academic journals, though it found only limited evidence of such a bias. Third, the project conducts a systematic review of the literature to determine the ecological effects of MPAs, and reaches the conclusion that there is little proof of a positive impact on finfish populations in temperate waters. Fourth, the study uses discourse analysis to trace the effects of a public campaigning policy network on marine conservation zones (MCZs) in England, which demonstrated that there was considerable confusion over the objectives that MCZs were being designated to achieve. The book’s conclusion is that the MPA issue shows the power of ideas in marine governance, but offers a caution that scientists who cross the line between science and politics risk exaggerating the benefits of MPAs by glossing over uncertainties in the data, which may antagonise the fishing industry, delay resolution of the MPA issue, and weaken public faith in marine science if and when the benefits of MCZs are subsequently seen to be limited.
Environment. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Nature Conservation. --- Environmental sciences. --- Aquatic biology. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental management. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Hydrobiologie --- Environnement --- Droit --- Gestion --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Marine parks and reserves --- Conservation areas, Marine --- Marine conservation areas --- Marine protected areas --- Marine reserves --- Marine sanctuaries --- MPAs (Marine protected areas) --- Sanctuaries, Marine --- Aquatic ecology. --- Environmental policy. --- Nature conservation. --- Aquatic parks and reserves --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Hydrobiology --- Water biology --- Aquatic sciences --- Biology --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- Environmental policy --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Conservation --- Law and legislation --- Aquatic ecology . --- Aquatic biology --- Ecology --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy
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