Publisher's Synopsis
As the US National Park Service marks its centennial in 2016, parks and protected areas worldwide are under increasing threat from a variety of factors, including storms and fires of greater severity, plant and animal extinctions, the changing attitudes of a public that has become more urbanised, and the political pressures of narrow special interest groups. In the face of such rapid environmental and cultural changes, this book gathers a group of renowned scholars - including Edward O. Wilson, Jane Lubchenco, Thomas Dietz, and Monica Turner, among many others - who address these problems and, in so doing, to secure a future for protected areas that will push forward the frontiers of biological, physical, and social science in and for parks.
