There is today a growing awareness that many wetlands are more valuable in their natural,
or only slightly modified state, than if drained, dyked or built upon. Past neglect of wetlands …

The exponential increase in the number and coverage of protected areas worldwide
represents the past century's most notable conservation success. Nonetheless, many …

By January 2015 the world's richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per
cent of the world's population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in …

Ecotourism: Impacts, Potentials and Possibilities analyzes the impacts of mainstream
tourism in first, second and third world countries, and argues the benefits of adopting the …

This book develops an outline of a broad land-based strategy for biodiversity conservation in
the USA. It synthesizes information and offers general guidelines for biodiversity …

Since the publication of the first edition of Food, Energy, and Society, the world's natural
resources have become even more diminished due to the rapid expansion of the global …

The Framework for management effectiveness developed by the IUCN World Commission
for Protected Areas was published in the first version of this Best Practice Guideline. It is …

Community natural resource management (CNRM) has been extensively promoted in recent
years as an approach for pursuing biological conservation and socioeconomic objectives …

David Pimentel, Ulrich Stachow, David A. Takacs, Hans W. Brubaker, Amy R. Dumas, John
J. Meaney, John AS O'Neil, Douglas E. Onsi, and David B. Corzilius iological diversity is …

Ecotourism is expected, by the tourism industry and academics, to grow rapidly over the next
20 years. Much has been written about ecotourism, often with missionary zeal, but there is …