Protected area - grid

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Label: Protected areas
Description: Map of protected nature areas, limiting human activities
Dimensions: worldgrid
Variable type: driver
Driver group: Environmental and other policies
Source: WDPA (http://www.wdpa.org): personal communication and special release on April 2011
Values based on: Own assumptions, derived from polygon maps
Reference: WDPA (http://www.wdpa.org)


Drivers are described in the Drivers component.


Variable is input of model component(s):


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The WDPA consists of polygon and point shapefiles. The polygon shape files describe the knkown delineated boundary for the protected areas, we only used the polygon data. The current published version of the WDPA is the 'WDPA Annual Release 2010', this set is based on a more recent (corrected) version.