The world's protected areas : status, values and prospects in the 21st century / edited by Stuart Chape... [et al.] - Berkeley : University of California P., 2008. - xv, 359 p. : ill., graphs, col. photos, maps.

Includes bibliographical references.

History, definitions, values and global perspective -- Protected areas and biodiversity -- Threats to protected areas -- Protected areas in the wider context -- The functions and processes of protected area management -- Managing the marine environment -- Prospects for protected areas in the 21st century -- Regional analysis -- North America -- The Caribbean -- Central America -- Brazil -- South America -- Europe -- West and Central Africa -- Eastern and Southern Africa -- North Africa and the Middle East -- Northern Eurasia -- South Asia -- East Asia -- Southeast Asia -- Australia and New Zealand -- Pacific Islands.


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Protected areas.

S944.5 P78 W67 2008