Protected Areas A Legal Geography Approach

This book argues that legal geography provides new insights into contemporary conservation challenges. Despite unprecedented efforts, we are facing an extinction crisis, and in situ protected area programs are falling short. This book discusses the protected area phenomenon and calls for changes to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gillespie, Josephine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Challenges for Protected Areas: biodiversity loss, place-people and law connections
  • Chapter 2: Protected Areas
  • Chapter 3: A Legal Geography Approach
  • Chapter 4: World Heritage: Protecting the World’s ‘Beautiful Places’
  • Chapter 5: Ramsar Wetlands: Protecting the World’s ‘Ugliest’ Places
  • Chapter 6: A Way Forward: Protected Areas and Legal Ecology