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Synopsis
Most scientists and researchers working in tropical areas are convinced that parks and protected areas are the only real hope for saving land and biodiversity in those regions. Rather than giving up on parks that are foundering, ways must be found to strengthen them, and Making Parks Work offers a vital contribution to that effort. Focusing on the "good news" -- success stories from the front lines and what lessons can be taken from those stories -- the book gathers experiences and information from thirty leading conservationists into a guidebook of principles for effective management of protected areas. The book:
- offers a general overview of the status of protected areas worldwide
- presents case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia written by field researchers with long experience working in those areas
- analyzes a variety of problems that parks face and suggests policies and practices for coping with those problems
- explores the broad philosophical questions of conservation and how protected areas can -- and must -- resist the mounting pressures of an overcrowded world
Contributors include Mario Boza, Katrina Brandon, K. Ullas Karanth, Randall Kramer, Jeff Langholz, John F. Oates, Carlos A. Peres, Herman Rijksen, Nick Salafsky, Thomas T. Struhsaker, Patricia C. Wright, and others.
About the Author
John Terborgh is a co-directors of The Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke University, where he is James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science in the Nicholas School of the Environment.
Carel van Schaik is a co-director of The Center for Tropical Conservation at Duke University, and a is professor of biological anthropology the Nicholas School of the Environment.
Madhu Rao is associate conservation ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
PART I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Why the World Needs Parks
Chapter 2. Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Problems and Potential
Chapter 3. The History of Protection: Paradoxes of the Past and Challenges for the Future
PART II. Case Studies
Chapter 4. Scenes from the Front Lines of Conservation Africa
Chapter 5. West Africa: Tropical Forest Parks on the Brink
Chapter 6. Parks in the Congo Basin: Can Conservation and Development B Reconciled?
Chapter 7. Conservation in Anarchy: Key Conditions for Successful Conservation of the Okapi Faunal Reserve
Chapter 8. Strategies for Conserving Forest National Parks in Africa with a Case Study from Uganda
Chapter 9. Making a Rain Forest National Park Work in Madagascar: Ranoma-fana National Park and Its Long-term Research Commitment Latin America
Chapter 10. Expanding Conservation Area Networks in the Last Wilderness Frontiers: The Case of Brazilian Amazonia
Chapter 11. The National Sanctuary Pampas del Heath: Case Study of a Typical "Paper Park" under Management of an NGO
Chapter 12. Successes and Failings of the Monteverde Reserve Complex and Costa Rica's System of National Protected Areas
Chapter 13. Privatey Owned Parks Asia
Chapter 14. Nagarahole: Limits and Opportunities in Wildlife Conservation
Chapter 15. Conserving the Leuser Ecosystem: Politics, Policies, and People
Chapter16. Conservation of Protected Areas in Thailand: A Diversity of Problems, a Diversity of Solutions
Chapter 17. Biodiversity Conservation in the Kingdom of Bhutan
PART III. Themes
Chapter 18. Overcoming Impediments to Conservation Park Level
Chapter 19. Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Southern Asia
Chapter 20. Enforcement Mechanisms
Chapter 21. Ecotourism Tools for Parks
Chapter 22. The Problem of People in Parks National Level
Chapter 23. Political Will for Establishing and Managing Parks
Chapter 24. The Role of the Private Sector in Protected Area Establishment and Management
Chapter 25. Anarchy and Parks: Dealing with Political Instability International Level
Chapter 26. Financing Protected Areas
Chapter 27. Internationalization of Nature Conservation General Tools
Chapter 28. Monitoring Protected Areas
Chapter 29. Breaking the Cycle: Developing Guiding Principles for Using Protected Area Conservation Strategies
Chapter 30. The Frontier Model of Development and Its Relevance to Protected Area Management
PART IV. Conclusions
Chapter 31. Putting the Right Parks in the Right Places
Chapter 32. Making Parks Work: Past, Present, and Future
List of Contributors
Index