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126,76 €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
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Introduction: Do protected areas safeguard biodiversity?
• PART I: The Global Protected Area Portfolio
1. Government commitments for protected areas, status of implementation and sources of leverage to enhance ambition
2. Protected area diversity and potential for improvement
3. Sound investments: Protected areas as natural solutions to climate change and biodiversity conservation
4. Optimal protection of the world’s threatened birds, mammals and amphibians
5. Maintaining a global data set on protected areas
• PART II: The Fate of Species in Protected Areas
6. Species population trends in protected areas
7. Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving large carnivores in Europe
8. Towards understanding drivers of wildlife population trends in terrestrial protected areas
• PART III: Managing Protected Areas at System Scales
9. Towards assessing the vulnerability of US national parks to land use and climate change
10. Integrating community managed areas into protected area systems: The promise of synergies and the reality of trade-offs
11. The importance of Asia’s protected areas for safeguarding commercially high value species
• PART IV: Monitoring Protected Areas at System Scales
12. Monitoring protected area coverage and impact on key biodiversity areas, important bird areas and alliance for zero extinction sites
13. Camera traps for conservation: Monitoring protected area investments
14. Monitoring protected areas from space
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