Contents
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I. Protected Area Systems: Challenges, Solutions, and Changes
Paul R. Dingwall
Implementing an Environmental Management Regime in Antarctica ........................... 1
N. G. Solomonov
Regional Features of the System of Specially Protected Areas in the
Sakha Republic (Yakutia) .......................................................................................... 6
David Ostergren
Evgeny Shvarts
Protected Areas in Russia: Management Goals, Current Status, and Future
Prospects of Russian Zapovedniki ........................................................................... 11
II. Opportunities and Challenges of Wilderness as a Basis for Sustainable Development
Domingo A. Medina
Iokiñe Rodriguez
Participatory Rural Appraisal of the Impacts of Tourism on Local Indigenous
Communities and National Parks: the Case of the Pemón Kamaracoto ................. 19
Jarkko Saarinen
Wilderness, Tourism Development, and Sustainability: Wilderness
Attitudes and Place Ethics ....................................................................................... 29
III. Understanding and Protecting Biodiversity
Shaju Thomas
Aby P. Varghese
Jayan Nandan Nair
Participatory Biodiversity Management and the Concept of
Mini-Sanctuaries ...................................................................................................... 37
Olga Khitun
Olga Rebristaya
Study of Plant Species Diversity in the West Siberian Arctic ...................................... 42
L. B. Rybalov
T. E. Rossolimo
Asian Ecological Transect: Evaluation of Biodiversity of Soil and
Animal Communities in Central Siberia ................................................................... 49
N. I. Germogenov
Siberian White Crane on Protected Territories of Yakutia (Russian Northeast) ......... 55
Daniel H. Henning
Capacity Building in Protected Areas and Biodiversity Management in
Cambodia ................................................................................................................. 60
Michael J. Vandeman
Wildlife Need Habitat Off Limits to Humans ................................................................ 66
IV. Human Values and Meanings of Wilderness
Karen M. Fox
Leo H. McAvoy
Wayfaring Metaphors and Environmental Ethics ........................................................ 73
Norman McIntyre
Person and Environment Transactions During Brief Wilderness Trips:
an Exploration .......................................................................................................... 79
David Reason
Reflections of Wilderness and Pike Lane Pond .......................................................... 85
Hal Salwasser
Steve Morton
Ray Rasker
The Role of Wildlands in Sustaining Communities and Economies and
Vice Versa ................................................................................................................ 90
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V. Wilderness for Personal Growth
Chad P. Dawson
Gregory T. Friese
Jim Tangen-Foster
Josh Carpenter
Wilderness Experience Programs in the United States: Dependence on
and Use of Wilderness ............................................................................................ 99
Steven M. Foster
Rites of Passage in the Wilderness: a Therapeutic Source of Cultural
and Environmental Recovery ................................................................................. 105
Daniel H. Henning
Buddhism and Deep Ecology: Protection of Spiritual and Cultural
Values for Natural Tropical Forests in Asia ............................................................ 108
VI. Understanding Threats and Services Related to Wilderness Resources
Ralf Buckley
Tourism in Wilderness: M&M Toolkit ......................................................................... 115
Christopher A. Monz
Monitoring Recreation Resource Impacts in Two Coastal Areas of
Western North America: an Initial Assessment ...................................................... 117
Peter A. Christian
An International Wilderness Management Scale: a Common
Language for a Common Heritage ......................................................................... 123
VII. The Future of Wilderness: Challenges of Planning, Management, Training, and Research
Charles Burgess
Wayne Freimund
Wilderness Information Needs in the Age of Cyberspace ......................................... 131
Michael A. Tarrant
Tamela L. Kibler
Wilderness Management on the World Wide Web: an Application
in Authorware ........................................................................................................ 137
Peter Newman
Chad P. Dawson
The Interim Management Dilemma: the High Peaks Wilderness
Planning Process from 1972 to 1997 ..................................................................... 139
Ruth L. Scott
Wilderness Management and Restoration in High Use Areas of
Olympic National Park, Washington, U.S.A. .......................................................... 144
Jim Walters
Current Efforts to Improve Wilderness Management Within the
United States National Park Service ...................................................................... 148
Alan E. Watson
Don Hunger
Neal Christensen
Dave Spildie
Kurt Becker
Jeff Comstock
Wilderness Boaters: Protecting Unique Opportunities in the Frank
Church-River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho, U.S.A. .......................................... 151
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