Conserving Africas Natural Heritage

Author : IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conserving Africa's Natural Heritage written by IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. Working Session
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 9782880324087
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conserving the natural heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean written by IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. Working Session and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1981 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Primack
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783747536
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Richard Primack and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is, a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject, and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region. Boxes covering specific themes written by scientists who live and work throughout the region are included in each chapter, together with recommended readings and suggested discussion topics. Each chapter also includes an extensive bibliography. Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa provides the most up-to-date study in the field. It is an essential resource, available on-line without charge, for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to stop the rapid loss of biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere.

Author : Anne-Marie Deisser
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1910634824
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya written by Anne-Marie Deisser and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kenya, cultural and natural heritage has a particular value. Its pre-historic heritage not only tells the story of man's origin and evolution but has also contributed to the understanding of the earth's history: fossils and artefacts spanning over 27 million years have been discovered and conserved by the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). Alongside this, the steady rise in the market value of African art has also affected Kenya. Demand for African tribal art has surpassed that for antiquities of Roman, Byzantine, and Egyptian origin, and in African countries currently experiencing conflicts, this activity invariably attracts looters, traffickers and criminal networks. This book brings together essays by heritage experts from different backgrounds, including conservation, heritage management, museum studies, archaeology, environment and social sciences, architecture and landscape, geography, philosophy and economics to explore three key themes: the underlying ethics, practices and legal issues of heritage conservation; the exploration of architectural and urban heritage of Nairobi; and the natural heritage, landscapes and sacred sites in relation to local Kenyan communities and tourism. It thus provides an overview of conservation practices in Kenya from 2000 to 2015 and highlights the role of natural and cultural heritage as a key factor of social-economic development, and as a potential instrument for conflict resolution

Author : Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107031761
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene written by Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesises key insights from a century of ecological research and monitoring efforts in one of Africa's oldest protected areas.

Author : Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108158315
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene written by Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centring on South Africa's Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, this book synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one of Africa's oldest protected wildlife areas. The park provides important lessons for conservation management, as it has maintained conservation values rivalling those of much larger parks sometimes through, and sometimes despite, strong management interventions, including the rescue of the white rhino from extinction. In addition, the book highlights the ecological science produced in the park, much of which has become widely influential, including the megaherbivore concept, new functional approaches to understanding biomes, and new understandings about the role of consumers in shaping ecosystems. The volume is ideal for researchers and policymakers interested in the conservation of relatively small, isolated and protected areas.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 923100543X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Transnational UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Holdgate
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134189303
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Green Web written by Martin Holdgate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.

Author : L. A. Lewis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136880968
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Environments and Resources written by L. A. Lewis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this work provides a comprehensive picture of the range of physical environments in Africa, focusing upon those characteristics and issues central to the management of environmental resources. Beginning with an overview of the geographical and environmental history of Africa, the authors also provide to the evolution of the management of resources and then details a broadly defined ecosystem approach, in which major environmental resource issues are identified and addressed in the tropical rainforest, the Savannah dry-forest, the arid and semi-arid areas, the highlands, and the extra-tropical zones of Northern and Southern Africa. The book is designed to contribute to a better understanding of African environmental and resource-management problems and this reissue should be welcomed by students of Africa and of environmental resource management problems in general.

Author : IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conserver Le Patrimoine Naturel de L'Afrique written by IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: