This book is intended as a guide for the increasing number of people who find themselves with mandates to plan either national systems of marine and coastal protected areas or individual sites.
Based on the workshops on managing coastal and marine protected areas, World Congress on National Parks, Bali, Indonesia, Oct, 1982 organized by the IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas, sponsored by IUCN, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Sanctuary Programs Division, U.S. National Oceania and Atmospheric Division, UNEP, World Wildlife Fund. Bibliography: p.293-302