 | Erich Hoyt - Business & Economics - 2012 - 521 pages
...World Conservation Union (lUCN, 1994), a protected area (PA) is defined 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'. A marine protected area is defined as 'any area of intertidal... | |
 | Richard Butler - Business & Economics - 2006 - 358 pages
...levels have been researched. Protected areas are defined by the IUCN 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' (IUCN, 1998: xiv). The world's first National Park, Yellowstone... | |
 | IUCN--The World Conservation Union - Nature - 2005 - 326 pages
...V.29 Poverty and Protected Areas Protected areas play a vital role in sustainable development through protection and maintenance of biological diversity and of natural and associated cultural resources. Protected areas cannot be viewed as islands of conservation, divorced from the social and economic... | |
 | Exequiel Ezcurra - Science - 2006 - 172 pages
...area under environmental protection, following lUCN's definition, namely, "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." (Mulongoy and Chape 2004) 4. Hotspots — The proportion of... | |
 | Steve Waygood - Business & Economics - 2006 - 260 pages
...agreement. 5 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". IUCN categorises protected areas by management objective and... | |
 | Alan Hamilton - Nature - 2013 - 351 pages
...(IUCN) PROTECTED AREA CATEGORIES The IUCN definition of 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': • category I : strict nature reserve/wilderness area , managed... | |
 | Exequiel Ezcurra - Science - 2006 - 172 pages
...area under environmental protection, following lUCN's definition, namely, "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." (Mulongoy and Chape 2004) 4. Hotspots — The proportion of... | |
 | Colin Michael Hall, Tuija Härkönen - Nature - 2006 - 250 pages
...(517,695 km 2 )) (Chape et al. 2003). The 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' (Chape et al. 2003: 2). Some 261 protected area sites in lake... | |
 | Coastal ecology - 2005 - 64 pages
...(1 992, 1 996). The definition of a protected area adopted by 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" (WCMC 2000). Biodiversity Hotspots: Conservation International... | |
 | Laxmi - 2005 - 212 pages
...Biosphere reserves, Sacred forests and Sacred lakes. 1. Protected areas. These are areas of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance...and of natural and associated cultural resources. The protected areas are managed through legal or other effective means. There are several areas throughout... | |
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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 
