Rethinking park protection : treading the uncommon ground of environmental beliefs /

• Main Author: La Page, Will, 1935- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: National parks and reserves > Conservation and restoration.; National parks and reserves > Management.; Parks > Conservation and restoration.; Parks > Management.; Environmental policy.; Environmental protection.; Environmental protection > Philosophy.; Belief and doubt > Social aspects.; Belief and doubt > Political aspects.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Land Resources.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Beliefs.; Conservation areas.; Environmental management.; National parks.; Parks.; Sustainability.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages); Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book proposes answers to the question of why parks are failing their mandate to be preserved undiminished for future generations. Those answers are deeply embedded in one word: belief. The book provides a practical guide for preparing park managers for a new era where the beliefs that created parks are matched by the beliefs that steward them - an era where promises made to unborn generations are matters of honor, not to be dismissed by the limits of science, the reality of budgets, or the inconvenience of revising management models. The book offers a new way to view parks, as essential public services and as social assets rather than natural resources. The book has 19 chapters and a subject index.