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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 "
Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution - Page 24
edited by - 2007 - 406 pages
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Adaptive Management: From Theory to Practice

James Oglethorpe - Biodiversity - 2002 - 176 pages
...elaborate, definition of protected areas which expands on the CBD definition: "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." Using the proceeding definitions, and recognising that while...
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Transboundary Protected Areas: The Viability of ..., Volume 17, Issues 1-2

Yale University - Nature - 2003 - 296 pages
...states, sub-national units such as provinces and regions, autonomous areas and/or areas beyond the limits of national sovereignty or jurisdiction, whose constituent...managed co-operatively through legal or other effective means. calation of global attention for international collaboration for conservation in border regions...
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Ecotourism Policy and Planning

David A. Fennell, Ross Kingston Dowling - Travel - 2003 - 392 pages
...marine parks) are defined by the World Conservation Union (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'. In Australia, most protected areas are managed by the states...
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The Antarctic Environmental Protocol and Its Domestic Legal Implementation

C. J. Bastmeijer, Kees Bastmeijer - Law - 2003 - 546 pages
...(WCPA), "IUCN - the World Conservation Union - 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". See <http://wcpa.iucn.org/wcpainfo/protectedareas.html>, October...
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Textbook of Biodiversity

K V Krishnamurthy - Business & Economics - 2003 - 280 pages
...Categories (IUCN 1994a,b) define a protected area as follows: 'An area of land and/ or sea specially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological...natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means'. Protection of areas is a recent phenomenon dating back only...
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The Full Value of Parks: From Economics to the Intangible

David Harmon, Allen D. Putney - Nature - 2003 - 364 pages
...parks, IUCN — The World Conservation Union, is careful to define protected area as that which is "dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological...of natural and associated cultural resources, and [which is] managed through legal or other effective means" (IUCN 1994: 7; emphasis added). Intent and...
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2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: A Global Species Assessment

Jonathan Baillie, Craig Hilton-Taylor, S. N. Stuart, IUCN Species Survival Commission - Endangered plants - 2004 - 228 pages
...and Ed Saul (Takitumu Conservation Area, Cook Islands) Protected areas are 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 (IUCN 1994b). They are a major tool for habitat protection,...
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Speaking a Common Language: The Uses and Performance of the IUCN System of ...

Kevin Bishop - Protected areas - 2004 - 196 pages
...now over 100,000 sites that meet the IUCN definition of a protected area: "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". Together, places thus defined cover nearly 11.7 per cent of...
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Guidelines for Planning and Managing Mountain Protected Areas

Lawrence S. Hamilton, Linda McMillan - Mountain ecology - 2004 - 92 pages
...the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). This definition 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. Management of these areas includes action for achieving a wide...
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International Environmental Governance: An International Regime for ...

John Scanlon, Françoise Burhenne-Guilmin - Law - 2004 - 92 pages
...seek to address targeted management. 4. 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'. It is this definition which is followed in this work. Thus,...
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