Nigel Dudley is a consultant ecologist who has worked with international organisations, including WWF International, IUCN and UNESCO. He is co-founder of Equilibrium Research and an industry fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. Nigel is the author/editor of numerous titles, including Arguments for Protected Areas (Routledge, 2010) and Authenticity in Nature (Routledge, 2011).Sue Stolton co-founded Equilibrium Research with Nigel Dudley thirty years ago. She works mainly on issues relating to protected areas, including management of protected areas and the wider values and benefits that protected areas offer. Sue is vice chair of the WCPA specialist group on privately protected areas and nature stewardship.

"Now Nigel and Sue have consolidated much of their experience, and the knowledge of the many colleagues whose work they have read, or collaborated with, in this impressive synthesis of the current state of the art of protected areasplanning and management. They draw on a wide range of first-hand experiences from around the world to illustrate the points they make, while returning again and again to their home between the Welsh mountains and coast to "ground truth" their observations. As always, the writing is lucid and the story highly readable. They feel passionately about the subject but they are commendably balanced in how they address such thorny issues as the rights of Indigenous peoples in respect of the natural resources upon which their livelihoods depend." — Adrian Phillips, Parks Journal, Issue 26.1

• PART 1. SETTING THE SCENE 1. A vision for area-based conservation 2. What are we aiming for? 3. A brief history of the modern protected area movement PART 2. WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED SO FAR 4. Agreeing what we mean by area-based conservation 5. Deciding where protected areas should be located 6. Setting targets for conservation 7. How much area is already set aside for conservation? PART 3. WHY THIS IS NOT ENOUGH 8. The needs for area-based conservation: countering threats 9. The needs for area-based conservation: maximising ecosystem services 10. Effectiveness of the existing estate 11. The Costs PART 4. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 12. Leaving Space for Nature: What next?

Nigel Dudley is a consultant ecologist who has worked with international organisations, including WWF International, IUCN and UNESCO. He is co-founder of Equilibrium Research and an industry fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia. Nigel is the author/editor of numerous titles, including Arguments for Protected Areas (Routledge, 2010) and Authenticity in Nature (Routledge, 2011).Sue Stolton co-founded Equilibrium Research with Nigel Dudley thirty years ago. She works mainly on issues relating to protected areas, including management of protected areas and the wider values and benefits that protected areas offer. Sue is vice chair of the WCPA specialist group on privately protected areas and nature stewardship.

"Now Nigel and Sue have consolidated much of their experience, and the knowledge of the many colleagues whose work they have read, or collaborated with, in this impressive synthesis of the current state of the art of protected areasplanning and management. They draw on a wide range of first-hand experiences from around the world to illustrate the points they make, while returning again and again to their home between the Welsh mountains and coast to "ground truth" their observations. As always, the writing is lucid and the story highly readable. They feel passionately about the subject but they are commendably balanced in how they address such thorny issues as the rights of Indigenous peoples in respect of the natural resources upon which their livelihoods depend." — Adrian Phillips, Parks Journal, Issue 26.1

• PART 1. SETTING THE SCENE 1. A vision for area-based conservation 2. What are we aiming for? 3. A brief history of the modern protected area movement PART 2. WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED SO FAR 4. Agreeing what we mean by area-based conservation 5. Deciding where protected areas should be located 6. Setting targets for conservation 7. How much area is already set aside for conservation? PART 3. WHY THIS IS NOT ENOUGH 8. The needs for area-based conservation: countering threats 9. The needs for area-based conservation: maximising ecosystem services 10. Effectiveness of the existing estate 11. The Costs PART 4. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? 12. Leaving Space for Nature: What next?