"National Parks and Landscape Architecture: Management and Conservation" ed. by Eva Li

This book provides an overview of the current state of the National park systems and protected areas. The book demonstrates that there are deep necessities in how the wider scientific, environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural values that these natural ecosystems provide should increasingly be recognized.

The book highlights various approaches for managing and conserving protected areas to respond to some pressing global challenges today such as climate change, demand for food and energy, over exploitation, and habitat change.
The book is divided into sections: protected area management, fish and wildlife conservation, biodiversity conservation, ecotourism and recreation, and local community participation.

Students, scholars and researchers from a wide variety of fields who are interested in topic will find this book illuminating and useful.

Contents
Preface
Part I. National Parks: Management and Conservation
1 Introductory Chapter: Conserving Biodiversity in Protected Areas
2 Protected Areas and Regional Development: An Austrian Case Study
3 Development Vision of Protected Areas in the Republic of Croatia: National Park "Krka" as a Trend Leader
4 Genotoxic Biomarkers in Fishes of the Chapada Das Mesas National Park, Brazil
5 The Roles of Interpretation in the Management of National Parks in South Africa
6 Transboundary Cooperation: The Best Way to Share Common Responsibility for Future
7 Challenges in the Management of Plitvice Lakes National Park, Republic of Croatia
8 Policy and Related Issues Pertaining Community Participation in the Management of Protected Area (PA): A Case of Pahang National Park, Malaysia
9 A Centennial Path Towards Sustainability in Spanish National Parks: Biodiversity Conservation and Socioeconomic Development (1918-2018)
10 Establishment of Management Plan by SightingReports of Asiatic Black Bears (Ursus thibetanus)
11 Light Intensity and Soil Compaction as Influenced by Ecotourism Activities in Pahang National Park, Malaysia
Part II. Landscape Architecture
12 Evolution and Dynamics of Fractal Growth of the Urban Green Spaces in Seville (Spain)
13 Promenade as Landscape Architecture Strategy for Riverbanks of Small Danube Cities: Komarno and Sturovo