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Global protected areas and IUCN designations: Do the categories match the conditions

2010-03-01

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Protected areas are considered fundamental to the preservation of nature. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has standardized categories for protected areas designation, which are intended to represent varying levels of regulatory protection. We evaluate whether the present assignment of protected areas to IUCN categories corresponds to the expected gradient of naturalness in a globally cons...

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Literature Corpus work: 758076ac-504e-5482-94e2-2a8d60179f0d
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.11.018

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