Managing Protected Areas: a Global Guide

a Global Guide brings together state-of-the-art thinking from around the world on the complex business of managing protected areas ” (page xxiii). This is an ambitious statement and the editors do deliver. This edited book provides comprehensive cover-age of a broad range of issues associated with pro-tected areas and their management. It is divided into three parts with Part I (seven chapters) providing important context for protected areas; this is some-times neglected or embedded within material per-ceived as more important in other similar publications. Central to Part I is a focus on the global scale. This suggests, to impact practitioners, that any assessments associated with protected area