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World Protected Areas (Point), 1996
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)
- Publication Date
- 1996
- Title
- World Protected Areas (Point), 1996
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Series Information
- Series Name
- ArcAtlas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Redlands, Calif.
- Publisher
- ESRI
- Online Linkage
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/acis/eds/dgate/studies/C1301/data/esri_1996_world_protectedpoints.zip
- Abstract
- World Protected Areas (Point), 1996 is a point theme representing protected areas worldwide.
- Purpose
- For educational, non-commercial purposes. This dataset is appropriate for use in a GIS.
- Supplemental Information
- The network of protected natural areas around the world is an active measure to protect nature from human and economic impacts. Protected areas include places such as national parks, nature parks, landscape protected areas, national monuments, game reserves, and wildlife sanctuaries. These areas are important for environmental, scientific, cultural, historic, and aesthetic reasons, and they also serve recreational and memorial purposes. Their principal aim is to protect (1) the genetic fund of flora and fauna, (2) representative or rare landscapes, and (3) basic standards of environments. The regimes of protected natural areas are regulated by the environmental legislation of the countries where they are located. The criteria of protected natural areas are developed and regulated by the documents of national environmental institutions and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). All the protected natural areas are classified by the IUCN into the five categories that are defined below. 1. Scientific Reserve/Strict Nature Reserve -- An area possessing some outstanding ecosystems, features, and/or species of flora and fauna of national scientific importance, or that is representative of particular natural areas. 2. National Park -- A relatively large area (1) where one or several ecosystems are not materially altered by human exploitation and occupation, where plant and animal species, geomorphological sites, and habitats are of special scientific, educational, and recreational interest, or that contains a natural landscape of great beauty; (2) where exploitation or occupation is eliminated in the whole area; or (3) where visitors are allowed to enter, under special conditions, for inspirational, educational, cultural, and recreational purposes. 3. Natural Monument/Natural Landmark -- An area that contains one or more specific natural features of outstanding national significance, which should be protected because of uniqueness or rarity. 4. Nature Conservation Reserve/Managed Nature Reserve/Wildlife Sanctuary -- An area designed to protect specific sites or habitats of resident or migratory fauna of national or global significance. 5. Protected Landscape or Seascape -- An area with a special aesthetic quality that is the result of the interaction of man and land or an area that is primarily natural but managed intensively by man for recreation and tourism. In the newly independent countries of the former USSR, a zapovednik is a natural area of environmental, scientific, and educational significance that is specially protected by law as a basic standard of the natural environment, as representative or rare landscapes, and for conservation of the genetic fund of flora and fauna. Such an area is not used for economic purposes and cannot be used for any other purposes. A zakaznik is a natural area designed to protect or reproduce a particular natural resource but where other natural resources can be used with restrictions and controls.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 1996
- Bounding Box
- West
- -180
- East
- 180
- North
- 85
- South
- -85
- Theme Keyword
- environment
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Theme Keyword
- Protected Areas
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- Earth
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 1996
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- For current Columbia affiliates only.
- Use Restrictions
- For educational, non-commercial use only.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- None planned
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- ESRI
- Delivery Point
- 380 New York Street
- City
- Redlands
- State
- California
- Postal Code
- 92373-8100
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 909-793-2853
- Contact Facsimile Telephone
- 909-793-5953
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- info@esri.com
- Hours of Service
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850
- Data Quality Information
- Lineage
- Source
- Originator
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas
- Publication Date
- 1994
- Title
- United Nations List of National Parks and Protected Areas
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Switzerland and Cambridge
- Publisher
- IUCN
- Type of Source Media
- paper
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- Entity point
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 580
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_Clarke_1866
- Ellipsoid Name
- Clarke 1866
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378206.400000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 294.978698
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- protect_pt
- Entity Type Definition
- Protected Area
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- AREA
- Area
- PERIMETER
- Perimeter
- SARSNPDD_
- South America
- SARSNPDD_I
- South America ID
- NAME
- The name of a protected area.
- DIAK_CDE
- Code for any diacritical marks in the protected area name
- STATUS
- The status of a protected area.
- AREA_HA
- Area of the protected teritory, in hectares.
- CATEGORY
- The category of a protected area
- 0
- No data
- 1
- Scientific Reserve or Strict Nature Reserve
- 2
- National Park
- 3
- Natural Monument/Natural Landmark
- 4
- Nature Conservation Reserve, Managed Nature Reserve, or Wildlife Sanctuary
- 5
- Protected Landscape or Seascape
- YEAR
- The year a protected area was founded
- FIPS_CNTRY
- Country Code
- POLYGONID
- ID number
- SCALE
- Scale
- ANGLE
- Angle
- AFRSNPDD_
- Africa
- AFRSNPDD_I
- Africa ID
- ASRSNPDD_
- Asia
- ASRSNPDD_I
- Asia ID
- EURSNPDD_
- Europe
- EURSNPDD_I
- Europe ID
- NARSNPDD_
- North America
- NARSNPDD_I
- North America ID
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- geopackage
- Distributor
- ESRI; ESRI International Distributors
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090624
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St. 215 IAB, MC 3301
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212) 854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Hours of Service
- 7:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday-Friday
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
