Protected areas spearhead our response to the rapidly accelerating biodiversity crisis. However, while the number of protected areas has been growing rapidly over the past 20 years, the extent to which the world s protected areas are effectively conserving species, ecosystems, and ecosystem services is poorly understood. Highlights new techniques for better management and monitoring of protected areas Sets guidelines for the decision making processes involved in setting up and maintaining protected areas Fully international in scope and covering all ecosystems and biomes INDICE: Notes on Contributors .Introduction: Do protected areas safeguard biodiversity?JEM Baillie, L Joppa and JG Robinson .PART I: The Global Protected Area Portfolio .1. Government commitments for protected areas, status of implementation and sources of leverage to enhance ambitionL Krueger .2. Protected area diversity and potential for improvementN Dudley and S Stolton .3. Sound investments: Protected areas as natural solutions to climate change and biodiversity conservationK Mackinnon .4. Optimal protection of the world s threatened birds, mammals and amphibiansJEM Watson, DB Segan and RA Fuller .5. Maintaining a global data set on protected areasA. Milam, S. Kenney, D. Juffe–Bignoli, B. Bertzky, C. Corrigan, Brian MacSharry, N. D. Burgess and N. Kingston .PART II: The Fate of Species in Protected Areas .6. Species population trends in protected areasB Collen, L McRae, E Nicholson, ID Craigie, EJ Milner–Gulland, J Loh and S. Whitmee .7. Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving large carnivores in EuropeL. Santini, L. Boitani, L. Maiorano and C. Rondinini .8. Towards understanding drivers of wildlife population trends in terrestrial protected areasM Barnes, I Craigie and M Hockings .PART III: Managing Protected Areas at System Scales .9. Towards assessing the vulnerability of US national parks to land use and climate changeA Hansen, C Davis, J Haas and N Piekielek .10. Integrating community managed areas into protected area systems: The promise of synergies and the reality of trade–offsM Rao, G Shahabuddin and LR Carrasco .11. The importance of Asia s protected areas for safeguarding commercially high value speciesJ Walston, EJ Stokes and S Hedges .PART IV: Monitoring Protected Areas at System Scales .12. Monitoring protected area coverage and impact on key biodiversity areas, important bird areas and alliance for zero extinction sitesSHM Butchart, TM Brooks, JPW Scharlemann and MAK Mwangi .13. Camera traps for conservation: Monitoring protected area investmentsT O Brien .14. Monitoring protected areas from spaceN Pettorelli, M Wegmann, L Gurney and G Dubois .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-118-33816-2
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
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- Fecha Publicación: 18/03/2016
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