Protected Areas: Are They Safeguarding Biodiversity? [Hardcover]

Protected areas spearhead our response to the rapidly accelerating biodiversity crisis.  However, while the number of protected areas has been growing rapidly over the past 20 years,  the extent to which the world’s protected areas are effectively conserving species, ecosystems, and ecosystem services is poorly understood.

• Highlights new techniques for better management and monitoring of protected areas

 

• Sets guidelines for the decision making processes involved in setting up and maintaining protected areas

 

• Fully international in scope and covering all ecosystems and biomes

Contributors ix

Introduction: Do Protected Areas Safeguard Biodiversity? 1
J. E. M. Baillie, L. Joppa and J. G. Robinson

Part I The Global Protected Area Portfolio 11

1. Government Commitments for Protected Areas: Status of Implementation and Sources of Leverage to Enhance Ambition 13
L. Krueger

2. Protected Area Diversity and Potential for Improvement 34
N. Dudley and S. Stolton

3. Sound Investments: Protected Areas as Natural Solutions to Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation 49
K. MacKinnon

4. Optimal Protection of the World’s Threatened Birds, Mammals, and Amphibians 66
J. E. M. Watson, D. B. Segan and R. A. Fuller

5. Maintaining a Global Data Set on Protected Areas 81
A. Milam, S. Kenney, D. Juffe‐Bignoli, B. Bertzky, C. Corrigan, B. MacSharry, N. D. Burgess al“G