Nigel Dudley of Equilbrium Research ,based in Bristol, UK, is an ecologist and consultant working on issues relating to forest conservation, protected areas and broad scale approaches to conservation, co-author with Rodolphe Shlaepfer, William Jackson, Jean-Paul Jeanrenaud and Sue Stolton of Forest Quality (2006) and co-editor with Sue Stolton of Partnerships for Protection (1999.) Sue Stolton, also of Equilibrium Research, specialises in issues relating to protected areas and the assessment of conservation actions.
Foreword: Arguments for Protected Areas
1. Protected Areas: Linking Environment and Well-Being
2. Vital Sites: Protected Areas Supporting Health and Recreation
Case study 2.1: Protecting Medicinal Resources in Colombia
Case Study 2.2: Parks Victoria (Australia) 'Healthy
Parks Healthy People Initiative'
3. Running Pure: Protected Areas Maintaining Purity and Quantity of Urban
Water Supplies
Case Study 3.1: Protecting Water Supplies to Caracas, Venezuela
4. Food Stores: Protected Areas Conserving Crop Wild Relatives and Securing
Future Food Stocks
Case Study 4.1: Crop Genetic Diversity Protection in Turkey
Case Study 4.2: Conservation of Endangered CWRs in Mexico's Sierra de
Manantl n
5. Nursery Tails: Protected Areas Conserving Wild Marine and Freshwater
Fish Stocks
Case Study 5.1: Freshwater Fishery Sustainability in Lake Malawi, East
Africa
Case Study 5.2: Managing and Monitoring Success: The Story of Tubbataha
Reefs, Philippines
6. Natural Security: Protected Areas and Hazard Mitigation
Case Study 6.1: Environmental Degradation and The Indian Ocean Tsunami of
2004
Case Study 6.2: Restoration and Protection Plan to Reduce Flooding in the
Lower Danube
7. Safety Net: Protected Areas Contributing to Human Well-Being
Case Study 7.1: Population-Health-Environment Approaches in Kiunga Marine
National Reserve, Kenya
8. Beyond Belief: Linking Faiths and Protected Areas to Support
Biodiversity Conservation
Case Study 8.1: The Ancient Sacred Natural Sites in Al Hoceima National
Park, Morocco
9. Living Traditions: Protected Areas and Cultural Diversity
Case Study 9.1: Angkor Wat Protected Landscape: Where Culture, Nature and
Spirit Meet
Case Study 9.2: Inuit Partnerships in the Torngat Mountains National Park,
Canada
10. Diverting Places: Linking Travel, Pleasure and Protection
Case Study 10.1: Managing Tourism in South Korea's Protected Area System
11. Climate Change: The Role of Protected Areas in Mitigati
