National Parks and Protected Areas

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Keys to Life

   1. Keys to Life

      • J. G. Nelson, Rafal Serafin

      Pages 1-7

3. Broadening the Scope

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-10

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   2. Science and Protected Area Management: An Ecosystem-based Perspective

      • Stephen Woodley

      Pages 11-21

   3. Landscape Ecology as a Basis for Protecting Threatened Landscapes

      • Almo Farina

      Pages 23-30

   4. Landscape Approaches to National Parks and Protected Areas

      • Adrian Phillips

      Pages 31-42

   5. Land Use and Decision-Making for National Parks and Protected Areas

      • Gordon Nelson, Rafal Serafin, Andrew Skibicki, Patrick Lawrence

      Pages 43-63

   6. A Clash of Values: Planning to Protect The Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada

      • Anne Varangu

      Pages 65-76

   7. The Economic Pitfalls and Barriers of the Sustainable Tourism Concept in the Case of National Parks

      • Jan van der Straaten

      Pages 81-91

   8. Environmental Education in Protected Areas as a Contribution to Heritage Conservation, Tourism and Sustainable Development

      • Andrzej Biderman, Wojciech Bosak

      Pages 93-102

   9. Extending the Reach of National Parks and Protected Areas: Local Stewardship Initiatives

      • Jessica Brown, Brent Mitchell

      Pages 103-116

   10. The Role of Banff National Park as a Protected Area in the Yellowstone to Yukon Mountain Corridor of Western North America

       • Harvey Locke

       Pages 117-124

   11. The Danube Challenge: Protecting and Restoring a Living River

       • Philip Weller

       Pages 125-132

   12. Exploratory Planning for a Proposed National Marine Conservation Area in Northeast Newfoundland

       • Paul A. Macnab

       Pages 133-143

   13. Experience in Cross-Border Cooperation for National Park and Protected Areas in Central Europe

       • Zygmunt Denisiuk, Stepan Stoyko, Jan Terray

       Pages 145-150

   14. Parks for Life: An Action Plan for the Protected Areas of Europe

       • Marija Zupancic-Vicar

       Pages 151-157

4. Information and Communication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Usable Knowledge for National Park and Protected Area Management: A Social Science Perspective

      • Gary Machlis, Michael Soukup

      Pages 161-173

   3. Integration of Information on the Kraków-Czestochowa Jura for Conservation Purposes: Application of CORINE Methodology

      • Anna Dyduch-Falniowska, Malgorzata Makomaska-Juchiewicz, Róża Kazmierczakowa, Joanna Perzanowska, Katarzyna Zając

      Pages 175-185

   4. The Potential Role Of Biosphere Reserves In Piloting Effective Co-Operative Management Systems For Heritage, Landscape and Nature Conservation

      • Henry Baumgartl

      Pages 187-190

National parks and protected areas offer a wealth of ecological and social contributions or services to humans and life on earth. This book describes the strengths of national parks and protected areas in different parts of Europe and North America and the challenges to the full realization of their goals. It shows that they are useful not only in conserving rare species and biodiversity, but also in protecting water supply and other resources necessary to tourism and to economic and social development generally. Ideas and information on useful planning, management and decision-making arrangements are presented, and research needs are identified.

• Tourismus
• Umweltmanagement
• biodiversity
• biosphere
• ecology
• ecosystem
• environment
• environmental management
• landscape ecology
• nachhaltige Entwicklung
• national parks
• nature conservation
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• wetland
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Environmental Studies Building 1, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

  James Gordon Nelson

• Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation, Krakow, Poland

  Rafal Serafin

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