In spite of the fact that Sri Lanka has a relatively high Human Development Index (HDI) overall, the majority of families living in coastal areas fall into the poorest category.
This document consists of Volume 1, a detailed discussion of some of the available resources on natural resource management concerning the monitoring of gender, poverty, and social equality issues that can be considered best resources or best practices, and Volume 2, an annotated bibliography of
The Proceedings of the Sustainable Finance Stream provide insight as to how to secure the long-term financial visibility of parks and conservation areas.
This report was written to provide an overview, without the use of scientific jargon, of the status of coral reefs and causes of reef decline, with recommendations for action by national authorities.
Author(s):
Wilkinson, Clive R.
Organization(s):
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), AU
Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network
International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), UK
UNEP
IUCN
World Bank, Environment Department
WorldFish Center, MY
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
We live in a world of rapid global change : biophysical, socio-economic and institutional. This book examines the issues and options for protected area management to ensure that we continue to protect the Earth's most valuable ecosystems in the face of these unprecedented changes.
The Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region is renowned for the attractiveness of its coastal zones, high marine biodiversity and rich marine and coastal resources, but the 30 million or so people who live on the coast of the WIO region have had a significant impact on its biodiversity.
Author(s):
Church, Julie
Samoilys, Melita
Organization(s):
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
West African is among the most vulnerable regions to climate change worldwide. The often disastrous impact variability and extreme events over the past thirty years is a striking illustration and a harbinger of this vulnerability.
An analysis is provided of the most relevant provisions on freshwater ecosystems conservation, present in international treaties, and bilateral and multilateral agreements relating to rivers and lakes. Included also an analysis of relevant European Union legislation.
The African Convention on the conservation of nature and natural resources was adopted in 1968 in Algiers. Considered the most forward looking regional agreement of the time, it influenced significantly the development of environmental law in Africa.
The book aims to address the lack of information on the experiences of others by providing a comparative analysis of national access and benefit-sharing laws and policies in the 41 Pacific Rim countries that signed the CBD.
Author(s):
Carrizosa, Santiago
Brush, Stephen B.
Wright, Brian D.
McGuire, Patrick E.
Organization(s):
IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
IUCN, Environmental Law Programme
University of California, Genetic Resources Conservation Program, US
Germany, Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development
Conventional approaches to managing protected areas have often seen people and nature as separate entities. They preclude human communities from using natural resources and assume that their concerns are incompatible with conservation.
Author(s):
Borrini, Grazia
Kothari, Ashish
Oviedo, Gonzalo
Organization(s):
Cardiff University, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
Over 30 organisations collaborated to produce this publication. It covers 295 terrestrial and marine species and subspecies of mammals, which were assessed within South African borders, excluding Swaziland and Lesotho.
Author(s):
Daly, Brenda
Friedmann, Yolan
Organization(s):
Endangered Wildlife Trust, ZA
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG), Southern Africa
This book contains a selection of papers on various legal issues of interest to developing countries which have been prepared by Fellows from InWent who came to Germany between 2002 and 2004 from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to research and write about subjects of their choice at the IUCN Envi
Author(s):
Burhenne-Guilmin, Françoise
Cedeño, Marianela
Fernández Fernández, Edgar
Jemaiel, Sondes
Mwebaza, Rose
Zhandeyeva, Dana
Organization(s):
Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWent), DE
Protected areas operate within complex ecological and social systems, presenting challenges that cannot be resolved by technical solution alone. Achieving the management objectives of protected areas requires a social approach in which strategic communication is a key instrument.
Author(s):
Hamú, Denise
Auchincloss, Elisabeth
Goldstein, Wendy
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
CEPA tools have been identified as one of the keys to achieving better outcomes in a broad range of environmental projects increased community engagement, higher levels of collaboration among stakeholders, better targeted public awareness materials and increased sustainability of results.
Author(s):
Martin-Mehers, Gillian
Calvo, Susana
Auchincloss, Elisabeth
Goldstein, Wendy
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
Presents a guide to assist educators who are wrestling with educating for sustainability, by reflecting on the theory and practice of how to engage people in sustainable development and a framework of good practice (theory).
Author(s):
Tilbury, Daniella
Wortman, David
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
Mountain areas cover 24% of the Earth's land and 26% of the global population lives in or around these areas. At the global scale, perhaps their greatest value is as 'water towers', providing water for over half of humankind.
The deep ocean is increasingly recognized as a major global reservoir of the Earth's biodiversity, although but a small fraction of the oceans' ecosystems found at depths below 200 meters have been studied.
Joint initiative between IUCN and WWF for addressing the need to protect the highly valuable deep sea ecosystems in the Mediterranean. Is included for the first time a comprehensive proposal for conservation firmly based in virtually all scientific information currently available.
The precautionary principle, or precautionary approach, is now widely accepted in environmental law and policy at international and, increasingly, national level.
The workshop was organised to improve the understanding of the dialectic between water-related infrastructures and institutional frameworks in West Africa.
Poverty has become the central concern for development agencies, and because many of the areas that are most important for conserving biodiversity are occupied by poor people, or have poor people living around them, the relationship between poverty and protected areas can no longer be ignored.
Value is a practical guide that explains the most important steps and techniques for the valuation of ecosystem services, and the incorporation of its results in decision making.
Biosafety and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are amongst the most complex of biodiversity issues: from species conservation, to sustainable livelihoods, to socio-cultural policy.
This review of the European bisons (Bison bonasus) status clearly indicates that, through proper management and conservation, its present numbers and distribution have improved significantly since its extinction in the wild at the beginning of the 20th century.
Author(s):
Belousova, Irina P.
Krasinska, Malgorzata
Krasinski, Zbigniew A.
Olech, Wanda
Pucek, Zdzislaw
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Bison Specialist Group
The new Canid Action Plan synthesizes the current knowledge on the biology, ecology and status of all wild canid species, and outlines the conservation actions and projects needed to secure their long-term survival.
Author(s):
Hoffmann, Michael
Macdonald, David W. (David Whyte)
Sillero-Zubiri, Claudio
Organization(s):
Born Free
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Canid Specialist Group
Oman, Sir Peter Scott IUCN/SSC Action Plan Fund
People's Trust for Endangered Species
Taiwan, Council of Agriculture
University of Oxford, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, UK
There is increasing recognition of the value that local, indigenous and mobile communities can bring to the process of conserving biodiversity, and of the need for a range of conservation types from strict protection to multiple sustainable use.
Author(s):
Balasinorwala, Tasneen
Kothari, Ashish
Goyal, Madhulika
Organization(s):
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
IUCN, Theme on Indigenous and Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas (TILCEPA)
The paper reports the insect and mite pests recorded and documented during 1948 and 2003 from the vegetable crops (brinjal, potato, sweet potato, aroids, yams, cabbage, cauliflower, knolkhol, radish, turnip, lady's finger, tomato, cucurbits, beans, kangkong, lettuce and amaranthus) ecosystems fro
