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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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