Connectivity Conservation Management : A Global Guide book cover

Salve
£14.00

Connectivity Conservation Management : A Global Guide book cover

Salve
£34.00

Connectivity Conservation Management : A Global Guide book cover

Salve
£14.00

1st Edition

Connectivity Conservation Management
A Global Guide

Copyright Year 2010

What are VitalSource eBooks?



Preview

Book Description

In an era of climate change, deforestation and massive habitat loss, nosotros can no longer rely on parks and protected areas equally isolated 'islands of wilderness' to conserve and protect vital biodiversity. Increasing connections are being considered and fabricated between protected areas and 'connectivity' thinking has started to aggrandize to the regional and even the continental calibration to lucifer the challenges of conserving biodiversity in the face of global environmental change. This groundbreaking book is the offset guide to connectivity conservation direction at local, regional and continental scales. Written by leading conservation and protected area management specialists under the auspices of the World Commission on Protected Areas of IUCN, the International Spousal relationship for the Conservation of Nature, this guide brings together a decade and a half of practise and covers all aspects of connectivity planning and management The book establishes a context for managing connectivity conservation and identifies large scale naturally interconnected areas every bit critical strategic and adaptive responses to climatic change. The second section presents 25 rich and varied instance studies from half-dozen of the viii biogeographic realms of Earth, including the Cape Floristic Region of Africa, the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains, the Australian Alps to Atherton Corridor, and the Sacred Himalayan Landscape connectivity expanse (featuring Mount Everest.) The remarkable 3200 kilometre long Yellowstone to Yukon corridor of Canada and the United States of America is described in item. The third department introduces a model for managing connectivity areas, shaped by input from IUCN workshops held in 2006 and 2008 and boosted research. The final chapter identifies wide guidelines that demand to be considered in undertaking connectivity conservation management prior to reinforcing the importance and urgency of this work. This handbook is a must have for all professionals in protected area direction, conservation, land management and resource management from the field through senior management and policy. It is also an ideal reference for students and academics in geography, protected expanse management and from across the ecology and natural sciences, social sciences and landuse planning. Published with Wilburforce Foundation, WWF, ICIMOD, IUCN, WCPA, Australian Alps and The Nature Conservancy.

Table of Contents

Preface Nik Lopoukhine  Foreword Setting the Context Gary Tabor  1. The Connectivity Conservation Imperative  two. Connectivity Science  three. Scoping the Territory: Considerations for Connectivity Conservation Managers Connectivity Conservation Management Case Material  four. Africotropical Connectivity Conservation Initiatives  five. Australasian Connectivity Initiatives  vi. Indomalayan Connectivity Initiatives Creating Biological Corridors for Conservation and Development: a Example Study from Bhutan  seven. Nearctic Connectivity Initiatives Conservation Network in the Southern Appalachian Mountains  8. Neotropic Connectivity Initiatives Mesoamerican Biological Corridor  9. Palaearctic Connectivity Initiatives Altai Mountain Knot  10. Themes and Lessons from Global Feel in Connectivity Conservation Synthesis  11. Connectivity Management Framework and Key Tasks  12. Challenges and Opportunities for Connectivity Conservation

Editor(s)

Biography

Dr Graeme L. Worboys is Vice Chair of Mountains Biome and Connectivity Conservation, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Wendy 50. Francis is director, conservation science and activity, Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative, Banff, Canada Michael Lockwood is Senior Lecturer in Environs and Planning at the Academy of Tasmania.

Reviews

'What a great effort! I plant it comprehensive, easy to read and of practical value for park managers and other interested conservationists and professionals.' Dr Fausto Sarmiento, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Georgia, USA

'This is an important practical contribution to connectivity conservation. It will be a valuable resource text for practitioners and for those studying connectivity..' Professor Roger Crofts, Old Vice Chair Europe, IUCN WCPA and Chief Executive Officer, Scottish National Heritage; Honorary Professor, Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, U.k.

'This book provides a highly practical guide for designing, implementing and managing Connectivity Conservation Areas. It addresses the full suite of challenges that conservation management professionals are currently facing, from climate change adaptation to development pressures in fragmented landscapes. This valuable new book is more than innovation. Information technology describes a new prototype for conservation management for the 21st Century.' Cyril Kormos, Regional Vice Chair for North America and the Caribbean, IUCN WCPA; Vice President for Policy, The WILD Foundation

'This book provides a high quality, timely and welcomed insight into the theory and practise of connectivity conservation. This global guide serves equally a valuable handbook, drawing fundamental lessons from the instance studies, identifying priorities and tasks for management and the challenges and opportunities for advancing connectivity conservation as the best promise for nature and people in the 21st Century.' Dr Brendan Mackey, Professor of Environmental Biogeography, Environmental Conservation, and Cantankerous-disciplinary Studies in Sustainability, Australian National University

'This book is essential for individuals and for nongovernmental and governmental organizations engaged in connectivity projects at local to international levels.' R. L. Smith, Choice, Oct 2010. 'This book brings together a decade and a half of practice and covers all aspects of connectivity planning and management.' In Practice