Climate change and protected areas
Date
2015
Authors
Hopkins, Angus
McKellar, Richard
Worboys, Graeme
Good, Roger
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ANU Press
Abstract
In the early part of the 21st century, evidence for the
overall warming of the Earth’s climate system due to
human-generated greenhouse gas pollution of the
atmosphere is unequivocal. The leading international
body for the scientific assessment of climate change, the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
has reported that ‘changes in climate have caused
impacts on natural and human systems on all continents
and across the oceans’ (IPCC 2014a:6). The average of
global surface temperatures for land and ocean increased
by 0.85ºC between 1880 and 2012, and the global mean
surface temperature increased by 0.12ºC per decade
between 1951 and 2012 (IPCC 2013a). Sea-levels are
also rising. ‘The rate of sea rise since the mid-19th
century has been larger than the mean rate during the
previous two millennia’ (IPCC 2013a:11).
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Protected Area Governance and Management
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Open Access via publisher website