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Resume las principales características y experiencias de participación de la sociedad civil en la gestión de las áreas naturales protegidas; incluye además, el marco insitucional y legal en El Salvador.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
- El Salvador, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
Resume las principales características y experiencias de participación de la sociedad en la gestión de áreas protegidas en Costa Rica.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
- Costa Rica, Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía, Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación
Recopila la información disponible sobre el proceso y el estado de la coadministración de las áreas protegidas en Guatemala.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
- Guatemala, Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas (CONAP)
Ofrece información relevante sobre la gestión compartida de las áreas protegidas en Panamá y dimensiona el impacto de esta forma de gestión en ese país. Presenta también, experiencias de lecciones aprendidas con la participación de organizaciones, grupos e instituciones gestoras de Panamá.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
- Panama, Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente
This report reveals recent discoveries about the beauty, value and vulnerability of life in the deep seas and in the open ocean.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- UNEP, Regional Seas Programme
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Author(s):
- Tepliakov, V. K. (Viktor Konstantinovich)
- Grigoriev, A.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Office for the Commonwealth of Independent States
- IUCN, Global Temperate and Boreal Forest Programme
Freshwater in the Mediterranean basin is of huge economic, environmental and livelihood importance. However, with a growing population and an increasing number of tourists, the freshwater resources are under great pressure.
Author(s):
- Darwall, W.R.T.
- Smith, K. G.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Freshwater Biodiversity Assessment Programme
- IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
El Enfoque Ecosistémico coloca a la gente y el uso de los recursos naturales como el punto de partida de la toma de decisiones.
Author(s):
- Andrade Pérez, Angela
- Shepherd, Gill
Organization(s):
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
The tsunamis of Sunday 26 December 2004 struck without apparent warning on a clear day. Not only was there a devastating loss of life, but coastal resources and infrastructure in the Indian Ocean suffered massive destruction as well.
Author(s):
- Wilkinson, Clive R.
- Souter, David
- Goldberg, Jeremy
Organization(s):
- Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), AU
- Australia, AusAID
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- Coral Reef Degradation in the Indian Ocean (CORDIO)
- Cooperative Research Centre for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, AU
- Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network
- International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), UK
- International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN)
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
- UNESCO
- IUCN
- Japan, Ministry of the Environment
- United States, NOAA
- Reefbase
- Reef Check, US
- UNEP
- United States, Department of State
- World Bank
- WorldFish Center, MY
- WWF International
El enfoque ecosistémico se ha consolidado como una estrategia que integra las diferentes dimensiones del desarrollo, tomando como eje articuladorla gestión de los ecosisitemas, además del fortalecimiento y la inversión en infraestructura natural.
Author(s):
- Guerrero, Eduardo
- De Keizer, Otto
- Córdoba Muñoz, Rocío
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Regional Office for South America
- IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
- UNEP
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
Water is both the most ordinary and extraordinary of resources; without it, nothing can survive. Yet, 1,1 billion people around the world do not have ready access to clean water and more than 2,6 billion people lack basic sanitation.
Protected areas are the cornerstone of virtually all national and international conservation policies. About 10% of the world's forests are to be found in protected areas, and Forest Protected Areas make a critical contribution to conservation.
Author(s):
- Dudley, Nigel
- Phillips, Adrian
Organization(s):
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- Cardiff University, UK
It has become clear during recent global deliberations on biodiversity conservation that achieving Protected Area (PA) financial sustainability will require major changes in the way that PA funding is conceptualized, captured and used.
Author(s):
- Bishop, Joshua
- Emerton, L. (Lucy)
- Thomas, Lee
Organization(s):
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- James Cook University, AU
- Rainforest CRC, AU
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), CA
The present book is devoted to dead wood, mainly in forests subjected to minimal management. Despite the focus of the book on sem-natural forests, dead wood is also necessary in managed forests and amounts generally found there ought to be increased.
Author(s):
- Gutowski, Jerzy M.
- Zub, Karol
- Pawlaczyk, Paweł
- Laudenslayer, William F.
The main aim of this study is to develop an accounting framework that reflects the real contribution of agricultural land and pastureland to society.
Author(s):
- Gundimeda, Haripriya
- Sanyal, Sanjeev
- Sinha, Rajiv
- Sukhdev, Pavan
Organization(s):
- Green Indian States Trust
First published in 1995, The Forest Certification Handbook has become the landmark book concerning all aspects of forest and wood product certification from policy to business to in-the-field technical issues. Yet since first publication an enormous amount has happened in the field.
Author(s):
- Nussbaum, Ruth
- Simula, Markku
Organization(s):
- ProForest
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
Organization(s):
- Portugal, Região Autónoma da Madeira, Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais, Serviço do Parque Natural da Madeira
Wann und warum sind bestimmte Tierarten in den Alpen gefährdet, wenn Freizeitsportler in ihren Lebensraum eindringen? Unter welchen Bedingungen können Freizeitaktivitäten unbesorgt ausgeübt werden? Worauf sollten Wanderer, Snowboarder etc. im Umgang mit den Alpentieren achten?
Despite the dedicated efforts of many individuals and organizations, the great apes—our closest living relatives—are on the very edge of extinction.
Author(s):
- Caldecott, Julian Oliver
- Miles, Lera
Author(s):
- Viñals Blasco, María José
- Morant, Maryland
- Alonso-Monasterio, Pau
- Sánchez, María
In international negotiations, especially on biodiversity, local ecological knowledge has been often limited to issues relating to indigenousness.
Author(s):
- Bérard, Laurence
- Cegarra, Marie
- Djama, Marcel
- Louafi, Sélim
- Marchenay, P.
- Roussel, Bernard
- Verdeaux, François
Organization(s):
- Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP), BD
- Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI), FR
- Institut Français de la Biodiversité (IFB), FR
- Institut national de la recherche agronomic (INRA), FR
This first part of the Review of IUCN's Influence on Policy gives insight into the scope of IUCN's policy work and level of policy expertise in the organization.
Author(s):
- Matiru, Violet
- Muniu, Helinah
- Pabari, Mine
- Thande, George
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Eastern Africa Programme
- Tanga Coastal Zone Conservation and Development Programme, TZ
Organization(s):
- Fundacion Mbaracayu
- Fundacion Moises Bertoni
Organization(s):
- European Commission
- European Union
Author(s):
- Phillipps, Karen
- Viney, Clive
- Ying, Lam Chiu
Organization(s):
- Urban Energy Conservation and Transportation (UECT)
La restauration des paysages forestiers (RPF) offre un cadre complémentaire à l’aménagement forestier durable et une approche écosystémique dans les paysages où la perte de forêt a entraîné un déclin de la qualité des services fournis par les écosystèmes.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO)
La restauración del paisaje forestal (RPF) ofrece un marco complementario para la ordenación forestal sostenible y el enfoque ecosistémico en paisajes donde la pérdida del bosque ha causado el deterioro de la calidad de los servicios del ecosistema.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO)
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) provides a complementary framework to sustainable forest management and the ecosystem approach in landscapes where forest loss has caused a decline in the quality of ecosystem services.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO)
Organization(s):
- Spain, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Organismo Autónomo Parques Nacionales
Author(s):
- Brown, Chris
- Durst, Patrick B.
- Ishikawa, Miyuki
- Tacio, Henrylito D.
Organization(s):
- Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission
- FAO, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
- Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC), TH
Author(s):
- Foote, Lee
- Freeman, Milton M. R.
- Hudson, Robert J.
The threatened species categories used in Red Data Books and Red Lists have been in place for almost 30 years.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
The Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) consortium was formed in 1992 by a group of concerned national and international research institutions to address the global and local issues associated with this form of agriculture.
Author(s):
- Palm, C. A. (Cheryl Ann)
- Vosti, Stephen A.
Organization(s):
- Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Consortium
- Earth Institute
- University of California, Davis
- World Agroforestry Centre
Organization(s):
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
- Senegal, Ministère de l'Environnement
- Senegal, Ministère de la Jeunesse, de l'Environnement et de l'Hygiène Publique
- Senegal, Ministère de la Protection de la nature
Organization(s):
- FAO, Fisheries Department
Central African elephant populations are faced with many threats including illegal killing, habitat loss and habitat fragmentation.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), African Elephant Specialist Group
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
This General Management Plan (GMP) aims to provide a framework for managing the Mnazi Bay Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park (MBREM) over the next two years.
Les zones humides, espaces de transition entre la terre et l'eau, constituent un patrimonie naturel remarquable.
Author(s):
- Aulong, Stéphanie
- Bonnet, Bernard
- Goyet, Sylvie
- Lutz, Marc
- Mathevet, Raphaël
Organization(s):
- Institut de Recherches et d'Applications des Méthodes de Développement (IRAM), FR
- MedWet
- Tour du Valat, FR
This report outlines the findings of the Coastal Livelihood Assessment for the Kuruwitu – Vipingo community, which lies on a Kenyan coast potentially significant for its marine biodiversity, as it has a distinct coral reef ecosystem with diverse coral assemblages which host a wide variety of trop
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- East African Wildlife Society, KE
Organization(s):
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
Organization(s):
- Institute of Development Studies, UK
Author(s):
- Hewawasam, Indumathie
- Ngoile, Magnus
- Ruitenbeek, Jack
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