A Bibliographic Listing Of Coastal And Marine Protected Areas

Download or read book A Bibliographic Listing of Coastal and Marine Protected Areas written by Maynard E. Silva and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is the result of a survey of over 600 books, articles, technical reports and personal correspondence reviewing approximately 1,000 coastal and marine protected areas in 87 countries and, in turn, was intended to support a larger project that had been undertaken by the Marine Policy and Ocean Management Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in conjunction with the Government of Ecuador to consider the establishment of protected status for the marine area of the Galapagos Archipelago. To provide background for this larger project, a review of existing or proposed marine protect ed areas was initiated. This bibliographic listing is one result of this review.