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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Author: Gary E. Machlis
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309047811
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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The U.S. National Park Service needs much better scientific information to protect the nation's parks for future generations, and research must be an essential element in its mandate. Science and the National Parks examines the reasons why science is important to the national parks, reviews previous evaluations of research in the parks, and recommends ways to improve the current science program. The book stresses the need for two distinct but related approaches to research, called "science for the parks" and "parks for science." Science for the parks includes research to gain understanding of park resources and develop effective management strategies. The parks for science concept recognizes that the national parks are potentially very important to scientific investigations of broad national and global environmental problems and invaluable for understanding the ecological response to anthropogenic change. Science and the National Parks is a critical assessment of the problems hampering the current Park Service science program, providing strong recommendations to help the agency establish a true mandate for science, create separate funding and autonomy for the program, and enhance its credibility and quality.

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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Rose Arny
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174

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Author: National Parks and Conservation Association
Publisher: National Parks & Conservation Association
ISBN: 9780940091238
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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This plan contains recommendations for the survival and improvement of the National Park Service and the United States national park system.

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Category : Paperbacks
Languages : en
Pages : 1256

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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Linda J. Bilmes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351055763
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.S. National Parks (including monuments, seashores, lakeshores, recreation areas, and historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS) programs. The book develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the economic value of protected areas, with particular application to the U.S. National Park Service. The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and filming of movies/ TV shows, with case studies of each included. Examples are drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Everglades National Park, and Chesapeake Bay. The editors conclude with a chapter on innovative approaches for sustainable funding of the NPS in its second century. The framework serves as a blueprint of methodologies for conservationists, government agencies, land trusts, economists, and others to value public lands, historical sites, and related programs, such as education. The methodologies are relevant to local and state parks, wildlife refuges, and protected areas in developed and developing countries as well as to national parks around the world. Containing a series of unique case studies, this book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental economics, land management, and nature conservation, as well as the more general reader interested in National Parks.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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