Matching conservation goals to diverse conservation areas - a global perspective
The World Conservation Strategy seeks to attain three major objectives for the conservation of living natural resources: 1) to maintain essential ecological processes and life-support systems; 2) to preserve genetic diversity; and 3) to ensure the sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems. Designated natural protected areas, such as national parks, forest reserves, and wildlife sanctuaries contribute importantly to the acievement of these objectives. At the present time, approximately 2,000 major parks and other protected areas exist in over 110 countries, covering a total of 333,000,000 hectáreas throughot the world. Several changes are taking place which indicate that passt policies and practices for conserving nature through protected natural area management warrant reconsideration. Wildlands are rapidly being converted to cultured or developed landscapes. The last unallocated wild areas will be altered by the turn of the century. The requirements of society for use of wild resources and ecosystems are evolving to reflect newly acknowledged needs. The entire context within which supply and demand for wildland benefits takes place is itself changing. The very lack of development leads people to misuse natural resources at accelerating rates. Emerging ecological theory and recent managerial experience suggest opportunities for developing scientific methods and procedures for conservation of nature as an integral component of development. Several cases have demonstrated how a framework based upon biological, ecological, social and economic considerations can be developed and employed to analyze natural.
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Ann Arbor, Mich. (EUA) University of Michigan
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| Subjects: | CONSERVACION, AREAS SILVESTRES PROTEGIDAS, CATEGORIAS DE MANEJO, |
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| Summary: | The World Conservation Strategy seeks to attain three major objectives for the conservation of living natural resources: 1) to maintain essential ecological processes and life-support systems; 2) to preserve genetic diversity; and 3) to ensure the sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems. Designated natural protected areas, such as national parks, forest reserves, and wildlife sanctuaries contribute importantly to the acievement of these objectives. At the present time, approximately 2,000 major parks and other protected areas exist in over 110 countries, covering a total of 333,000,000 hectáreas throughot the world. Several changes are taking place which indicate that passt policies and practices for conserving nature through protected natural area management warrant reconsideration. Wildlands are rapidly being converted to cultured or developed landscapes. The last unallocated wild areas will be altered by the turn of the century. The requirements of society for use of wild resources and ecosystems are evolving to reflect newly acknowledged needs. The entire context within which supply and demand for wildland benefits takes place is itself changing. The very lack of development leads people to misuse natural resources at accelerating rates. Emerging ecological theory and recent managerial experience suggest opportunities for developing scientific methods and procedures for conservation of nature as an integral component of development. Several cases have demonstrated how a framework based upon biological, ecological, social and economic considerations can be developed and employed to analyze natural. |
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