TY - JOUR AU - McNeely, Jeffrey A. AB - Books But make no mistake: this book takes to have an overview of how protected examines the various approaches that no prisoners. It will be a challenging areas are doing, what the geographical are being applied around the world, in read for many who are directly involved variations may be, and what challenges the marine environment as well as on in this field of research. It may be daunt- remain. The World’s Protected Areas: land. The coverage of all of these topics ing enough even to dissuade potential Status, Values, and Prospects in the is relatively brief and presented in lan- students from the notion that studying Twenty-first Century intends to provide guage the nonspecialist can easily un- vertebrate social structures is a pretty such a global overview. Its three editors, derstand. All of the introductory neat idea (especially if megafauna, all of whom have been associated with chapters are well illustrated with pho- oceans, and sailboats are not on the the World Conservation Monitoring tographs, tables, and boxes, making menu). I suspect I’m not alone in wish- Centre in the United Kingdom at one the overall package extremely attractive. ing while reading the book that I’d paid time TI - Does Nature Stand a Chance in a Human-dominated World? JF - BioScience DO - 10.1525/bio.2009.59.7.14 DA - 2009-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/does-nature-stand-a-chance-in-a-human-dominated-world-HE8hGNvnTG SP - 623 EP - 624 VL - 59 IS - 7 DP - DeepDyve ER -