The Effect of Natural Protected Area on Surrounding Villages (Case study: Badr and Parishan Protected areas, Songhor, Iran) by Parisa Amirian, Aeizh Azmi, Amanollah Fathnia

“…These villages are near the protected areas of Badr and Parishan. Based on Cochran formula, 250 subjects were considered to fill out the questionnaire of effect of the protected areas on villages. …”
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Collaborative Governance of Protected Areas: Success Factors and Prospects for Hin Nam No National Protected Area, Central Laos by Mirjam de Koning, Tin Nguyen, Michael Lockwood, Sinnasone Sengchanthavong, Souvanhpheng Phommasane

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Partnerships for protection : new strategies for planning and management for protected areas / by Stolton, Sue, Dudley, Nigel, 1955-, World Wide Fund for Nature, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

Subjects: “…Protected areas…”

Environmental education in protected areas : international perspectives and experiences / by 454288 Filho, Walter Leal, De Carvalho, Cristina A. R., Hale, William H. G.

Guidelines : development of national park protected areas for tourism by World Tourism Organization, United Nations Environment Programme

Human conflict in conservation : protected areas : the Indian experience / by 382322 Dang, Himraj

Governing marine protected areas : resilience through diversity / by Jones, Peter J. S., author

Management and status of resources in protected areas of Peninsular Malaysia / by Sahir Othman

The state of climate change research in Swiss protected areas by Emiliano Tolusso

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Modelling Local Attitudes to Protected Areas in Developing Countries by Chiara Bragagnolo, Ana C.M. Malhado, Paul Jepson, Richard J Ladle

“…During a time of intensifying competition for land, Protected Areas (PAs) are coming under increasing pressure to justify their status. …”
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Designation of Marine Protected Areas (issues of international law) by A. N. Vylegzhanin, E. F. Pushkareva

Subjects: “…marine protected areas…”
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The effects of protected areas on the ecological niches of birds and mammals by Andrea Santangeli, Stefano Mammola, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Ari Rajasärkkä, Andreas Lindén, Marjo Saastamoinen

“…The effect of protected areas on intra-specific ecological niche has been rarely investigated. …”
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A systemic perspective on sustainable governance of protected areas by Frieder Voll, Tobias Luthe

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Anthropogenic impact on soils of protected areas—example of PAHs by Alicja Kicińska, Piotr Dmytrowski

“…Abstract The following study presents the concentrations of 10 individual polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs10) and the total concentration of PAHs (ΣPAHs) determined in soils of protected areas in Southern Poland (EU). The protected areas discussed here include 5 landscape parks and 5 nature reserves located in the Małopolska region. …”
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Costa Rica’s Marine Protected Areas: status and perspectives by Juan José Alvarado, Jorge Cortés, María Fernanda Esquivel, Eva Salas

“…In the last four decades, Costa Rica has done a considerable effort to create a representative system of Protected Areas (PA), mainly terrestrial. We present an assessment of the current situation of the Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in Costa Rica, through an historical analysis, and an evaluation of their distribution, coverage and management categories. …”
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Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle by Thales A. P. West, Lisa Rausch, Jacob Munger, Holly K. Gibbs

“…Abstract Cattle production inside Brazil's protected areas (PAs), including indigenous lands, continues to contaminate Amazonian supply chains more than a decade after efforts to reform the sector were launched with the signing of the zero‐deforestation cattle agreements (CAs). …”
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Levels and drivers of fishers' compliance with marine protected areas by Adrian Arias, Joshua E. Cinner, Rhondda E. Jones, Robert L. Pressey

“…We investigate compliance through the lens of fishers' compliance with marine protected areas (MPAs). MPAs are widely used tools for marine conservation and fisheries management. …”
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Larval connectivity in an effective network of marine protected areas. by Mark R Christie, Brian N Tissot, Mark A Albins, James P Beets, Yanli Jia, Delisse M Ortiz, Stephen E Thompson, Mark A Hixon

“…Acceptance of marine protected areas (MPAs) as fishery and conservation tools has been hampered by lack of direct evidence that MPAs successfully seed unprotected areas with larvae of targeted species. …”
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Editorial: Marine protected areas and small-scale fisheries by Karim Erzini

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The effectiveness of UK protected areas in preventing local extinctions by Alexandra S. Gardner, David J. Baker, Jonathan R. Mosedale, Kevin J. Gaston, Ilya M. D. Maclean

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