Wildlife Conservation and Protected Areas: Darwin, Marx, and Modern Science in the Search for Patterns That Connect

摘要

The recent appearance in print of the first and so far only comprehensive and critical assessment of the global proliferation of protected areas and, more importantly and more usefully, of their meaning and significance in the modern world, is a publishing event this journal cannot possibly fail to notice. Even though this contribution to the literature on wildlife and protected areas sidesteps marine protected areas, and focuses instead, as do so many other analyses of protected areas, on the national parks and game reserves and other sorts of terrestrially demarcated units the world has long depended upon for wildlife and habitat conservation, the appearance of this work, it seems to us, is a landmark event.