Leaving Space for Nature: The Critical Role of Area-Based Conservation

by Sue Stolton and Nigel Dudley

Book Overview

This book provides the first contemporary assessment of area-based conservation and its implications for nature and society.

Now covering 15 per cent of the land surface and a growing area of ocean, the creation of protected areas is one of the fastest conscious changes in land management in history. But this has come at a cost, including a backlash from human rights organisations about the social impacts of protected areas. At the same...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367407531
• ISBN13: 9780367407537
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"