Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature

Terborgh, J. et al. (eds)

ISBN 10: 1559639059 / ISBN 13: 9781559639057

Published by Island Press, 2002

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:9781559639057.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature
• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559639059
• ISBN 13: 9781559639057
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 800 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History & Science

About this title

Synopsis

Most scientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biodiversity in those regions. Rather than giving up on parks that are foundering, ways must be found to strengthen them, and Making Parks Work offers a vital contribution to that effort. Focusing on the "good news" -- success stories from the front lines and what lessons can be taken from those stories -- the book gathers experiences and information from thirty leading conservationists into a guidebook of principles for effective management of protected areas. The book:

• offers a general overview of the status of protected areas worldwide
• presents case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia written by field researchers with long experience working in those areas
• analyzes a variety of problems that parks face and suggests policies and practices for coping with those problems
• explores the broad philosophical questions of conservation and how protected areas can -- and must -- resist the mounting pressures of an overcrowded world

Contributors include Mario Boza, Katrina Brandon, K. Ullas Karanth, Randall Kramer, Jeff Langholz, John F. Oates, Carlos A. Peres, Herman Rijksen, Nick Salafsky, Thomas T. Struhsaker, Patricia C. Wright, and others.

About the Authors

John Terborgh is James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Sciences and Codirector of the Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke University. He has devoted much of the past 35 years to issues concerning the ecology and conservation of neotropical systems. 

Carel van Schaik is a co-director of The Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke University, and professor of biological anthropology in the Nicholas School of the Environment.

Lisa Davenport is a graduate student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.


Madhu Rao is Associate Conservation Ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society.