Protected Areas and the Regional Planning Imperative in North America (Parks and Heritage, 7) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155238084X ISBN 13: 9781552380840

Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2003

Synopsis

Regional planning is imperative if North America has any hope of retaining continental biodiversity and environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable development.Protected Areas and the Regional Planning Imperative in North Americas is a timely collection of essays presents new protected area theory, method, and practice as an explicit part of regional planning. With a North American focus, these essays consider the history of ecology, policy, and planning of protected areas in the context of the fundamental need for a linkage with ongoing regional planning. Protected areas and regional planning must be pursued, not as separate, but rather as interrelated activities if both are to achieve their place in decision-making in North America. With Contributions By: Natalie Ban Heather Black Scott Brennan Kenneth W. Cox Bruce A.B. Currie-Alder Gustavo Danemann J.C.Day Ileana Espejel Exequiel M. Ezcurra Graham Forbes BillFreedman Noel Aron Fuentes Steve Gatewood David Gauthier Christopher Gosselin Hans Hermann Jurgen Hoth Marvin O. Jensen Sabine Jessen Patrick Lawrence James Loucky Roberto Martinez Kevin McNamee John C. Miles J.G. Nelson Lina Ojeda Revah Alejando Robles Lucy Sportza Carlos Israel Vazquez Ella Vazquez-Dominquez Ed Wiken Christopher E. Williams Stephen Woodley

About this title

About the Author:

Gordon Nelson is distinguished professor emeritus and chair of the Heritage Resources Centre at the University of Waterloo. With over forty years of academic and field experience in environmental studies around the world, he maintains a deep and enduring interest in the creation and management of parks and protected areas.

J.C. Day earned his doctoral degree in integrated water and land management from the University of Chicago. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management, a graduate program at Simon Fraser University.

Lucy M. Sportza teaches in the Department of Geography at the University of Guelph.

Review:

"This book is an eloquent illustration of the importance of trans-boundary cooperation in conserving the biological diversity of North America. The examples from Canada, the USA, and Mexico demonstrate convincingly that land-use planners are beginning to think at a landscape scale. The Commission on Environmental Cooperation will be given a clear boost by this book, which clearly identifies the priorities for Canada, Mexico, and the USA. Landscape planning will never be the same!" -- Jeffrey A. McNeely, Chief Scientist, IUCN - The World Conservation Union

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 155238084X
• ISBN 13: 9781552380840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444
• Editor: Nelson J. Gordon, Day J. Chadwick, Sportza Lucy M., Loucky James, Vasquez Carlos