Making Parks Work: Strategies for Preserving Tropical Nature

ISBN 10: 1559639040 / ISBN 13: 9781559639040

Published by Island Press, 2002

About this Item

In very good, unmarked condition. Black marker marks on first several front endpages. Name stamped on page edges. Dust jacket is very good except for creased upper front corner. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

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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: 1559639040
• ISBN 13: 9781559639040
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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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 worldContributors 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 Author

John Terborgh is co-director of The Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke University, where he is James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science in the Nicholas School of the Environment.

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

Madhu Rao is associate conservation ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society

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

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.