This collection includes essays on the themes of legislation, landscape, diversity, subsistence, and management. Five chapters focus on Slovenia, seven on other European countries, and four on countries elsewhere in the world.
Includes bibliographic references. Inspired by a symposium on the ethnography of protected areas, held in October 2003 by the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), the Association for Research, Marketing and Promotion of Protected Areas in Slovenia and the Public Economic Institute for Tourism in Maribor.