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Protected Areas

2022
This chapter studies one of the most used, successful, and surprisingly flexible of the tools for conservation: the creation of protected areas. A protected area (PA) is a clearly defined geographical space, recognized, dedicated, and managed, through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ...
David Rodríguez-Rodríguez   +1 more
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Marine Protected Areas and Highly Protected Marine Areas

2023
A POSTnote summarising the types and network of Marine Protected Areas and the designation Highly Protected Marine Areas in English inshore and offshore waters.
Hazel Cooley, Jonathan Wentworth
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Protected Areas

Protected areas are land and sea parts that are managed and protected in situ (InSITU) within the framework of national and international laws and agreements and other effective means in order to ensure the continuity and protection of biological diversity, natural and cultural resources at a local, national and universal scale.
Demırel, Öner   +2 more
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Streamlining China's protected areas

Science, 2016
China is a mega-diverse country, harboring more than 30,000 vascular plant species and about 2340 terrestrial vertebrate species, about half of which are found exclusively in China ([ 1 ][1]). The conservation of this unique flora and fauna strongly depends on China's protected areas. Currently,
Junsheng, Li   +4 more
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Protected Area Dilemmas

2021
This chapter looks at contradictions in protective network comparisons, rankings, and their overall place within a biosphere whose vulnerabilities continue to be exploited by one species. The dialectic at the heart of ecological paradox is unsparing.
Michael Charles Tobias   +1 more
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Protected Areas

2017
There are a significant number of protected areas in the world today, but their creation has occurred only relatively recently. The designation of protected areas can be linked back to the Romantic Movement in England and continental Europe (Mason, 2016).
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Mediterranean marine protected areas

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2001
A collection of five recent papers assesses the role and effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Mediterranean. The papers provide a broad perspective of MPAs and include social, economic, cultural, biological and statistical components.
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Protected Areas

2015
Abstract This chapter discusses the conditions governing protected areas in the Geneva Conventions. These cover hospital zones and localities, hospital and safety zones and localities, neutralized zones, non-defended localities, and demilitarized zones. It also considers protected areas established by the UN Security Council.
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Greek Marine Protected Areas

European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 2000
A survey of the law concerning marine protected areas in Greece, and the actions which have been taken pursuant to those laws. The international conventions on environmental protection areas: the Ramsar Convention, the Cultural and Natural Heritage Convention, the Bern Convention, UNCLOS, the Biodiversity Convention, the Bonn Convention, the Barcelona ...
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