Protected Area Economics and Policy: Linking Conservation and SustainableDevelopment

摘要

;Contents: Economic and Policy Issues in Natural Habitats and Protected Areas;Conservation, Protected Areas, and the Global Economic System: How Debt, Trade, Exchange Rates, Inflation, and Macroeconomic Policy Affect Biological Diversity; Conservation in the Big Picture: Development Approaches for the Next Decade; Socioeconomic and Ecological Prospects for Multiple Use of Protected Areas in Africa; Making Investment (Aid) Work to Develop Institutionally Sustainable Programs; The Economic Contribution of Women and Protected Areas: Ghana and the Bushmeat Trade; America's Self-Funding Park System: The New Hampshire Model; Economic Contributions of Venezuelan Protected Areas: The Tragedy of the Commons and Perspectives; Rattan Management for Sustainable Livelihoods and Forest Conservation: The Case of Kerinci-Seblat National Park, Indonesia; Ecological Bricks for Europe: Integration of Conservation and Sustainable Development along the Former East-West Border; The Influence of the Reprivatization of Land on Nature Protection and Protected Areas; Starting Resource Accounting in Protected Areas; Functions and Values of Protected Areas: A Comprehensive Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Protected Areas to Human Society; The Marginal Costs of Endangered Species Management; Estimating the Nonmarket Conservation Values of Protected Landscapes in Australia; Valuing a Protected Tropical Forest: A Case Study in Madagascar; Elements for Calculating the Value of Biological Diversity Losses: The Case of Oil Exploitation at Cuyabeno Reserve in the Ecuadoran Amazonian Region; Mersey Barrage Feasibility Study: A Practical Application of Environmental Economics; The Economics of Global Ecotourism; Economic Values of Bird-Watching at Point Pelee National Partk, Canada; Sustainable Tourism Development; The Economics and the Role of Privately-Owned Lands Used for Nature Tourism, Education, and Conservation; Parks Tourism in Nepal: Reconciling the Social and Economic Opportunities with the Ecological Threats; The Economic Feasibility and Ecological Sustainability of the Bonaire Marine Park, Dutch Antilles; The Economics of Managing Fisheries and Tourism in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park; The Economic Impact of National Parks in Victoria, Australia.