IUCN's Protected Areas Management Categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives, are today accepted as the benchmark for defining, recording and classifying protected areas.They are recognized by international bodies such as the United Nations as well as many
Organization(s):
IUCN
Biodiversity Foundation
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Spain, Junta de Andalucia, Consejeria de Medio Ambiente
WWF has produced this atlas to help guide efforts in conserving the biodiversity in the Yangtze basin upon which economic development depends. It is based on extensive research by leading experts on the distribution of key protected species and zones of high biodiversity in the basin.
El presente libro tiene como principal objetivo visibilizar la importancia del Sistema Guatemalteco de Áreas Protegidas para el país, como la principal fuente de bienes y servicios ambientales que nos ayuden a enfrentar la potenciales crisis originadas bajo el contexto actual de cambio global.
Author(s):
Alvarado, Luis
Ariano, Daniel
Organization(s):
Guatemala, Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas (CONAP)
This report explores the economic impact of climate change in Zambia through the assessment of six sectors, agriculture & food security, natural resources, water, energy, health, and infrastructure. The analysis is conducted via scenario planning.
Organization(s):
UNDP
Zambia, Ministry of Tourism, Environment, and Natural Resources
Belarus ranks 8th among the world's countries in terms of peatland CO2 emissions and occupies 3rd place in CO2-emissions per unit land area. In recent years, tens of thousands of hectares of drained peatlands in Belarus have been rewetted.
La biodiversité est le fondement même de notre vie - l’estimation de sa valeur économique, écologique, sociale et esthétique ne sera jamais trop élevée. Ainsi, en 2003, les ministres européens de l’environnement décidèrent d’endiguer l’érosion de la biodiversité avant 2010.
Author(s):
Gonseth, Yves
Klaus, Gregor
Lachat, Thibault
Pauli, Daniela
Scheidegger, Christoph
Vittoz, Pascal
Walter, Thomas
Organization(s):
Ruth und Herbert Uhl-Forschungsstelle für Natur- und Umweltschutz, Bristol-Stiftung, CH
Swiss Academy of Sciences, Forum biodiversité suisse, CH
Switzerland, Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV)
This report is a systematic and comprehensive study of the status of glacial lakes in Nepal and an assessment of the hazard they pose and of the vulnerability of downstream people and property.
Organization(s):
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), NP
The book is the result of a four-year research project (2007-2011), which concerned mainly the implementation in the Mediterranean Region of the Ramsar Guidance on Culture and Wetlands.
Author(s):
Papayannis, Thymio
Pritchard, Dave
Organization(s):
Fondation MAVA pour la nature
Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (Med-INA)
Ce document est le fruit d'un consensus entre les agences de gestion forestière et de conservation de la faune au Nigeria et au Cameroun, des organisations non gouvernementales locales et internationales de conservation et des chercheurs affiliés à des universités, réunis lors d'ateliers organisé
Author(s):
Morgan, Bethan J.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
This document represents the consensus of views from forestry and wildlife conservation agencies in Nigeria and Cameroon, local and international nongovernmental conservation organizations, and university-based researchers who met at a series of workshops in Cameroon and Nigeria to formulate a se
Author(s):
Morgan, Bethan J.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
This book lays out the key contemporary debates in poverty measurement, and provides a new analytical framework for thinking about poverty conception and measurement.
Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities.
Author(s):
Nelson, Fred
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Southern Africa Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SASUSG)
Agrobiodiversity, which includes the diversity of plants, animals, fish, trees and microbes that are used directly or indirectly for food and agriculture, is the foundation of sustainable agricultural development.
Through the long efforts of what began as a group of French volunteers, an exemplary Bat Action Plan has been produced by the Society for the Protection of Prespa at the transboundary level, significantly increasing the limited knowledge on bats in the Transboundary Prespa Park.
This book serves as a guide for identifying Sphagnum mosses in both field and laboratory. Forty species, typical of more continental parts of Europe, but also commonly found elsewhere in the northern hemisphere, are presented.
Author(s):
Laine, Jukka
Harju, Pirkko
Timonen, Tuuli
Laine, Anna
Tuittila, Eeva-Stiina
Minkkinen, Kari
Vasander, Harri
Organization(s):
University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences, FI
Red Lists are recognised scientific inventories which indicate the extinction risk of species. This report compiles and analyses all of the data from the existing Swiss Red Lists of threatened plants, animals and fungi.
Organization(s):
Switzerland, Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV)
Les listes rouges se basent sur une procédure d'évaluation des menaces scientifiquement reconnue pour répertorier les espèces indigènes menacées plus ou moins gravement d'extinction.
Organization(s):
Switzerland, Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV)
In Journey of the Universe Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker tell the epic story of the universe from an inspired new perspective, weaving the findings of modern science together with enduring wisdom found in the humanistic traditions of the West, China, India, and indigenous peoples.
This publication examines the concept of naturalness in ecosystems, discussing its values and considering choices about the level of naturalness in conservation efforts. The author argues that all ecosystems have been modified and the idea of places 'untouched by humans' is a myth.
The conservation status of the toothed whales has worsened dramatically since 2001. Since then, more species have been listed in the IUCN Red List as Vulnerable and Nearly Threatended, while the Baiji river dolphin, which used to live in the Yangtze River, is now probably extinct.
Author(s):
Culik, Boris M.
Würtz, Maurizio
Organization(s):
UNEP
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), Secretariat
ASCOBANS, Secretariat
Greenpeace
Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea Mediterranean Sea and Contigous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS), Secretariat
This publication presents a comprehensive analysis of the rights-based agenda in forestry, connecting it with existing work on tenure reform, governance rights and human rights.
Concerns about food and energy security, coupled with increasing returns from agriculture, have increased interest in agricultural investments in developing countries. Public debates about 'land grabbing' have questioned the socio-economic impacts of large-scale land acquisitions.
Author(s):
Cooke, Fadzilah Majid
Toh, Sumei
Vaz, Justine
Organization(s):
IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
University of Malaysia Sabah, MY
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), IT
