Browsing by Author "Hamilton, Lawrence S."

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Managing Mountain Parks: Special Challenges
(1999) Hamilton, Lawrence S.
"This article considers the special challenges of managing upland protected areas. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) designation of 'protected area' has been given to many sites and landscapes throughout the world and over 25 percent of these are in mountain areas. Thorsell (1997), using data from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), claims that there are 473 sites in 65 countries totalling over 264 million ha, although at least 36 percent of this area lies in the Greenland National Park."
A Method of Watershed Land Classification and Assessment for the Tropics: A Case Study of Rio Guanare, Venezuela
(1980) Hawes, Robert A.; Hamilton, Lawrence S.
"The development of effective policies and plans for regional development in the tropics would be enhanced if planning were carried out on a basis of adequate appraisal of the land resource. 'Adequate appraisal' would involve a technically sound but simple and rapid assessment of the major environmental components (vegetation, soil, climate, fauna, water resources, topography, etc.), delination of relatively homogeneous environmental units which tend to respond more of less uniformly to a given treatment, and information about local prevailing or likely land use practices. Given enough money and technology, a land owner or manager can do virtually anything with any piece of the environment. What is sought, however, is to promote viable, sustainable uses without major ecological degradation or harmful off-site impacts to neighbors or public 'property,' such as streams, reservoirs or settlements. Such suitable, sustainable uses should be the goal of on-the-ground management and political policy decisions, avoiding the disastrous consequences of unsustainable land development which have often occurred in the tropics."