This report analyses the factors which motivate land use by rural populations and provides a context for any policy or strategy which addresses natural resource conservation in the Sahel.
Presents research results on LMEs including identification of the major driving forces causing large-scale changes in biomass yields and health; development of ecosystem component models; and monitoring and assessment strategies and techniques for measuring changing states of LMEs.
This series presents the results of an investigation by IUCNs Global Change Programme into the possible implications of predicted global change for natural systems and their management. This publication examines issues specific to marine ecosystems.
Author(s):
Pernetta, John
Leemans, Rik
Elder, Danny
Humphrey, Sarah
Organization(s):
IUCN, Marine and Coastal Areas Programme
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, NL
The Regional conference on biodiversity was unique in that it dealt with the issue of biodivestiy conservation in Asia and the Pacific from the social, political, legal, financial and technological aspects.
More than 1,000 species of molluscs are threatened by habitat destruction, over-collection, or predation by alien species. The nine papers and five abstracts in this volume summarise the current status of molluscan diversity.
Author(s):
Kay, E. Alison
Organization(s):
Chicago Zoological Society, US
DEJA, Inc.
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Mollusc Specialist Group
Written by teams from the two countries, this report presents an integrated picture of the environmental features of agriculture and the accompanying threat to biodiversity, supported by data related to the entire territory of the former Czechoslovakia.
This series presents the results of an investigation by IUCNs Global Change Programme into the possible implications of predicted global change for natural systems and their management. This publication examines issues specific to terrestrial ecosystems.
Author(s):
Pernetta, John
Leemans, Rik
Elder, Danny
Humphrey, Sarah
Organization(s):
IUCN, Marine Conservation Programme
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, NL
This report signals a new approach to ocean monitoring and management that lays a solid base using the principles of ecology and sustainable development while transcending traditional geopolitical and disciplinary divisions.
These guidelines expand on the system of categories designed to provide a basis for international comparison, identifying categories by their main management objectives and offering 40 examples of how the six categories have been applied.
Organization(s):
WCMC
IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
Federation of Nature and National Parks of Europe, DE
The rationale for this three-volume work covering nearly 250 major sites for conservation of plant diversity worldwide is concern about rapid global loss and degradation of natural ecosystems.
Organization(s):
IUCN
European Communities, Commission
Smithsonian Institution, US
United Kingdom, Overseas Development Administration
Results of a key workshop covering the Antarctic protected area system, design and management planning, tourism and protection of historic features, international legal and policy issues, and information and communication.
Based on the premise that all research done in protected areas can enhance their management, these guidelines, which originated in a parks Congress workshop, provide a source of ready-to-adapt ideas suggesting ways that researchers and managers can work more effectively with each other and with t
Organization(s):
IUCN
George Wright Society, US
Science and Management of Protected Areas Association
Burkina Faso boasts both varied natural and artificially created wetlands, the latter resulting from some 1100 dams or embankments. These wetlands, however, have not been seen as distinct ecosystem units and responsibility for wetland issues has been fragmented.
This volume describes the major issues facing protected areas, both terrestrial and marine, and discusses the approaches needed to address these issues.
This work draws attention to the conservation problems confronting these species. The general lack of knowledge about this group has meant that they are afforded little protection.
Author(s):
Glatston, A. R.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Mustelid, Viverrid, and Procyonid Specialist Group
This book deals with the different types of soil and the soil characteristics of mangrove swamps, the flora and invertebrate fauna as well as with the vertebrate fauna.
The Convention on biological diversity is an historic committment by the world's nations to conserve biological diversity, to use biological resources sustainably and to share equitably the benefits arising from the use of genetic resources.
This book summarizes the results of survey under-taken by IUCN and collaborators of the immediate and mid-term environmental damage arising from the Gulf War, in particular the massive oil spillage.
Zimbabwes wetlands are small, diverse and unique in nature but, until recently, in planning and development the components of these ecosystems have been treated as separate entities. These 18 papers highlight most forcefully the problems and issues.
These guidelines expand on the system of categories designed to provide a basis for international comparison, identifying categories by their main management objectives and offering 40 examples of how the six categories have been applied.
Organization(s):
Federation of Nature and National Parks of Europe, DE
IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
A global overview of the potential impacts of climate change and sea level rise on coral reefs, and of the implications of such impacts for ecological sustainable use of coral reefs.
This report makes a positive contribution toward informing governments, agencies and NGOs of actions that need to be taken to reduce significantly the adverse conditions of future droughts.
This publication, prepared in cooperation with the oil industrys Exploration Production Forum, sets out the oil exploration process, describes the potential environmental consequences of exploration and recommends measures for the prevention or minimization of adverse impacts.
The special significance and characteristics of mountains often require that major portions of them be afforded extra care or protection. Many have received legislative recognition by designation as parks or reserves of various kinds, and there are some 430 mountain protected areas worldwide.
Author(s):
Poore, Duncan
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
IUCN, Protected Areas Programme
Fundación Peruana para la Conservación de la Naturaleza, PE
