 | Clare Shine, Cyrille de Klemm - Law - 1999 - 350 pages
...World Conservation Union refers to "an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means". These definitions are sufficiently comprehensive to support... | |
 | French language - 2000 - 75 pages
...Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) defines a protected area as an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance...natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means. The main purposes of management are scientific research, wilderness... | |
 | IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas - Environmental protection - 2000 - 67 pages
...why are they important? Protected areas are recognised by IUCN (1994) as areas: "of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance...natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means ". Thus protected areas represent special places in the world... | |
 | Marc Hockings, Sue Stolton, Nigel Dudley - Natural areas - 2000 - 136 pages
...of management. Protected area: ILJCN (1994) defines a protected area as: An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance...natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means. Abbreviations CBD CNPPA GEF IUCN TNC WCMC WCPA WWF Convention... | |
 | F.T. Short, R.G. Coles - Science - 2001 - 482 pages
...project ceases 23.5.2 Marine Protected Areas A marine protected area (MPA) is defined as any area of sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance...natural and associated cultural resources and managed through legal and other effective means (IUCN 1994). An MPA may be a 'no-take' area like a terrestrial... | |
 | Paul F. J. Eagles - Business & Economics - 2001 - 116 pages
...Protected Areas The World Conservation Union (IUCN) defines a protected area as an "area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance...natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means." This definition outlines the general purposes of all protected... | |
 | David Newsome - Education - 2017 - 356 pages
...management strategy is designation as a protected area. A protected area is an 'area of land and /or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance...natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means' (IUCN, 1994). When countries such as the United States, Canada... | |
 | Timothy O'Riordan, Susanne Stoll-Kleemann - Business & Economics - 2002 - 338 pages
...area and protected landscape/seascape). IUCN defines a protected area as 'an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance...natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means.' 3 The USFWS has responsibility for threatened and endangered... | |
 | Andrew S. Pullin - Nature - 2002 - 362 pages
...adopted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is: an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance...natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means. Protected areas vary greatly in their status and there are... | |
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An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means 
