Spain

Privately protected areas deserve far greater recognition and support than is the case at the moment. Private conservation efforts can often fill important gaps in national policies in terms of both geographic cover and speed of response to conservation challenges, yet they remain a hidden resource: ignored by governments, omitted from international conservation reporting mechanisms and left out of regional conservation strategies.

This book is a practical manual on how to develop and manage tourism in protected areas. It is for all those responsible for the management of protected areas as tourism destinations. These include not only protected-area managers but also local authorities, tourism promotion agencies and tourism business associations. It focuses on protected areas that are in an early stage of their tourism development and wish to do this in a well-planned and sustainable manner.

The report on the environment of Andalusia is the most consolidated annual environmental information resource in our Autonomous Community, constituting as well an important reference within Spain and the European countries. This report summary presents the main elements of the original document, adapting them to a fast and easy reading, in order to favour the access and distribution of the environmental information generated in Andalusia.

Mediante una discusión del concepto de parque nacional, tal como se ha ido usando por la legislación española para establecer la red de parques nacionales, con el objetivo de averiguar hasta qué punto pueden existir áreas apropiadas para su catalogación como parque nacional de acuerdo a lo que la propia administración ha ido definiendo como tales mediante la creación de la citada red de parques.

Relates to a species endemic to Spain, Lepus castroviejoi or the broom hare.

Definir estrategias e instrumentos para gestionar adecuadamente y de la forma más inocua recursos naturales y culturales para su uso recreativo es un desafío complejo, en el que hay que tener en cuenta la realidad y la problemática de cada uno de los territorios en los que se vayan a aplicar. A lo largo de los artículos de este libro, se ofrece una serie de reflexiones y herramientas que pueden ayudar en esta tarea.