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Unleashing the wild: response to Locke and Dearden's ‘rethinking protected area categories’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2005

DIEGO MARTINO
Affiliation:
Centro Latino Americano de Ecologia Social (CLAES) and Center for Sustainable Cities, Department of Geography, University of Southern California, Kaprielian Hall, Room 416, 620 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0255 USA Tel: +1 213 821 1311, Fax: +1 213 740 0056, e-mail: dmartino@usc.edu

Abstract

Locke and Dearden (2005) assert that the emerging new paradigm for protected areas (PAs) risks taking the PA agenda to a ‘tragic failure,’ and the planet towards biological impoverishment. They believe the ‘new paradigm’ contributes to a persistent tendency towards giving social issues higher priority over biological considerations and is based on the promotion of PA categories V and VI of the IUCN (World Conservation Union).

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2005 Foundation for Environmental Conservation

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