Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
IUCN
Publication Year:
2021
Publication Place
Gland, Switzerland
Physical Description:
200 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Worldwide
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
43923
ISSN:
0960-233X
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Conservation areas - Protected lands - Global
Pandemic - COVID-19 - Global
Abstract
This introduction provides an overview and commentary on the papers in a special issue of PARKS, which is devoted to the impact and implications of COVID-19 on the world’s protected and conserved areas. It describes how 11 peerreviewed papers and 14 essays have brought together the knowledge and findings of numerous experts from all parts of the world, supported by several wide-ranging surveys. The resulting global synthesis of experience answers some key questions: why did the pandemic occur? what has it meant for protected and conserved areas, and the people that depend on them? what were the underlying reasons for the disaster we now face? and how can we avoid this happening again? We applaud the international effort to combat the disease but suggest that humanity urgently needs to devote as much effort to addressing the root causes of the pandemic – our fractured relationship to nature. Unless we repair it, humanity will face consequences even worse than this pandemic.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
IUCN
Publication Year:
2021
Publication Place
Gland, Switzerland
Physical Description:
200 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Worldwide
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
43923 Record Created: 18-Mar-2021
Record Modified: 19-Mar-2021