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Natural solutions: protected areas helping people cope with climate change.

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: This report provides an exhaustive overview of the literature regarding the role protected areas play in reducing emissions from land use change, and sustaining ecosystem services that will be vital to reducing the vulnerability of humans to climate change. Section 3, Adaptation – The role of protected areas, looks at reducing the impacts of natural disasters, safeguarding water, addressing health issues and biodiversity conservation and maintaining ecosystem resilience.

Source: University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas)

Authors: Nigel Dudley, Sue Stolton, Alexander Belokurov, Linda Krueger, Nikita Lopoukhine, Katherine C. MacKinnon, Trevor Sandwith, Nikhil Sekhran

Institutions: IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, International Union for Conservation of Nature

Language: English

Topic: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Life on land

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2585156083

FWCI: 7.676

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