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The book covers all facets of tourism in natural areas. The book is underpinned by a strong foundation of environmental understanding. It then describes the range of impacts, which occur when tourism takes place in the natural environment and illustrates how managers can plan, develop and appropriately manage tourism developments in natural areas. Finally, the book addresses ongoing management concerns such as monitoring environmental change and the...
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"In response to the national strategy, the BLM is releasing this action plan to provide a path forward to help the BLM attract and welcome domestic and international visitors to travel within the United States. This action plan provides a comprehensive framework for managing travel and tourism. It identifies sustainable tourism-based actions that the BLM will take to provide exceptional opportunities for domestic and international visitors, contribute...
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America's national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Managemnt holdings, and other Federally owned areas encompass more than 700 million acres. This volume covers the beauty of the American landscape and wildlife and the threats that development presents to these national treasures. It also chronicles the history of the Federal lands, their many uses, the laws and policies that affect them, and the problems these areas face, and...
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"In the face of growing pressure on our natural landscapes and increasingly bitter conflict over their management and use, simply defending the status quo is not enough. Finding a balance between producing commodities, such as lumber, and maintaining amenities, such as open space, is crucial if we hope to promote environmental stewardship and healthy economies. Accounting for Mother Nature brings together experts with wide-ranging experience to provide...
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"Illustrated with maps, color photographs, and graphics, this reference offers a comprehensive status report on the world's 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas designated as protected areas. It offers an overview of what these protected areas have and have not accomplished and what threats they face."--Provided by publisher.
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"Brewer's book, the first comprehensive treatment of land trusts, combines a historical overview of the movement with more specific information on the different kinds of land trusts that exist and the problems they face. The volume also offers a "how-to" approach for people and institutions interested in donating, selling or buying land.
Discusses four major national land trusts (The Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, American Farmland Trust,...
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""Explores the challenges in the Southwest of learning how to live within a complex natural system while grasping the borderland's historical and environmental frameworks. Investigates the human place in an ecosystem that burns easily and floods often and defies efforts to develop its foothills, canyons, and washes"--Provided by publisher"--
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"An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making--and we hardly notice it. We have forgotten what nature can be and adapted to a...
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