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IUCN Publication

Addressing climate change : issues and solutions from around the world

This publication synthesizes information on IUCN's work in this domain, particularly highlighting programmatic work in projects at local and national level, implemented by IUCN's Global thematic and Regional Programmes and Commissions.

Author(s):

  • Willetts, Elizabeth
  • Guadagno, Lorenzo
  • Ikkala Nyman, Ninni

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
  • IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
  • IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL)
  • IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Publication

Management effectiveness evaluation in protected areas : a global study : report for the project "Global study into management effectiveness evaluation of protected areas"

The Global Study into management effectiveness evaluation was conducted between late 2005 and 2007.

Author(s):

  • Leverington, Fiona
  • Hockings, Marc
  • Lemos Costa, Katia

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
  • WWF International
  • University of Queensland, AU
  • Nature Conservancy, US
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Management effectiveness evaluation in protected areas : a global study : supplementary report No. 1 : overview of approaches and methodologies

In this supplementary report, we summarise a selection of methodologies that have been used in different regions around the world for different purposes. References are given wherever possible for the reader to find more details where desired.

Author(s):

  • Leverington, Fiona
  • Hockings, Marc
  • Pavese, Helena
  • Lemos Costa, Katia
  • Courrau, José

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
  • WWF International
  • University of Queensland, AU
  • Nature Conservancy, US
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Agricultural ecosystems : facts and trends

The rapid increase in food prices in many countries has led to substantial media attention on agriculture. We hope that providing this Facts and Trends publication will help uncover some key trade-offs that mean extremely challenging decisions for governments, farmers, consumers and industry.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), CH
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

TEEB : the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity report for business : executive summary

This report provides a summary for the business community, illustrated with examples from a range of companies and sectors. It asks: what are the risks and opportunities to business of ecological change? What is business currently doing about biodiversity and ecosystem services?

Author(s):

  • Bishop, Joshua

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • European Commission
  • Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  • Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Norway, [Government]
  • Sweden, SIDA
  • The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative
  • UNEP
  • United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
  • United Kingdom, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Publication

Protecting the Earth's two most important assets : introducing healthy parks healthy people

Organization(s):

  • Australia, Parks Victoria
  • IUCN
  • World Tourism Organization
  • United States, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Australia, National Parks and Wildlife Service
  • Natural England, UK
  • Nature Conservancy, US
  • Australia, New South Wales, National Parks and Wildlife Service
  • WWF International
  • Australia, Victoria, [Government]
  • Australia, Melbourne, [Government]
  • Deakin University
  • Beyond Blue
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Publication

Panduan Pencegahan dan Mitigasi Konflik antara Manusia dan Kera Besar

One of the challenges facing great ape conservation is the rising level of interaction between humans and great apes, and the resulting conflicts that emerge.

Author(s):

  • Hockings, Kimberley
  • Humle, Tatyana

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Conservation International, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS)
  • IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Primate Specialist Group
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Grey Literature

Directrices de la Política Membresía y Recopilación de Estipulaciones de los Estatutos y Reglamento

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Membership and Conference Unit
Publication Year: 
2001
IUCN Publication

Guía para la elaboración de planes de manejo de microcuencas

En esta Guía para la Elaboración de Planes de Manejo de Microcuencas encontrará un proceso que orienta y acompaña a los técnicos para garantizar la participación de la población en el manejo de las microcuencas por medio de los Consejos de Microcuencas.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • FAO
  • Guatemala, Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
  • Guatemala, Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganaderia y Alimentacion
  • Centro de Cooperación Internacional para la Preinversión Agricola
  • Guatemala, Programa Nacional de Desarrollo Rural
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Measuring protected area management effectiveness

Presents different methodologies for learning how to effectively manage protected areas from indicators and variables of distinct fields such as administration and planning and the knowledge generated. Focuses on applications in protected areas of Latin America.

Author(s):

  • Cifuentes A., Miguel
  • Izurieta V., Arturo
  • Faria, Helder Henrique de

Organization(s):

  • WWF-Central America
  • IUCN
  • Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Publication Year: 
2000
IUCN Publication

Approaches to conservation of medicinal plants and traditional knowledge : a focus on the Chittagong Hill Tracts

This report documents different approaches to conservation of medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in Bolipara union of Thanchi upazila of Bandarban hill district.

Author(s):

  • Motaleb, Mohammad Abdul

Organization(s):

  • IUCN Bangladesh
  • Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund
  • Bolipara Nari Kalyan Somity
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Publication

Procedimiento para la asignación de las categorías internacionales de manejo de áreas protegidas de la UICN

Using the category system in force (IUCN, 1994), this document analyses the bestowal of IUCN category statuses and proposes a systematic procedure for making such assignments. A number of selected pilot cases from around the world where this procedure has been used are discussed.

Author(s):

  • Atauri Mezquida, José Antonio
  • Múgica de la Guerra, Marta
  • Gómez-Limón Garcia, Javier
  • Fernández, José Vicente de Lucio

Organization(s):

  • Europarc-Spain
  • Fundación Interuniversitaria Fernando González Bernáldez, ES
  • IUCN
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Procedure for assigning IUCN protected area management categories

Using the category system in force (IUCN, 1994), this document analyses the bestowal of IUCN category statuses and proposes a systematic procedure for making such assignments. A number of selected pilot cases from around the world where this procedure has been used are discussed.

Author(s):

  • Atauri Mezquida, José Antonio
  • Múgica de la Guerra, Marta
  • Gómez-Limón Garcia, Javier
  • Fernández, José Vicente de Lucio

Organization(s):

  • Europarc-Spain
  • Fundación Interuniversitaria Fernando González Bernáldez, ES
  • IUCN
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Hope in a changing climate

This documentary demonstrates that it is possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, to restore ecosystem functions in areas where they have been lost, to fundamentally improve the lives of people who have been trapped in poverty for generations and to sequester carbon naturally.

Author(s):

  • Liu, John D.

Organization(s):

  • Environmental Education Media Project
  • IUCN
  • Open University, UK
  • Rockefeller Foundation, US
  • Syngenta
  • World Bank
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Le Centre de la conservation de l'UICN à Gland, en Suisse : création d'un bâtiment durable

"The book presents an overview of how the IUCN Conservation Centre provides innovative solutions in terms of its environmental, economic and social performance, in addition to creating a truly aesthetic and functional built environment.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Holcim
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Publication

IUCN Conservation Centre in Gland, Switzerland : the creation of a sustainable building

"The book presents an overview of how the IUCN Conservation Centre provides innovative solutions in terms of its environmental, economic and social performance, in addition to creating a truly aesthetic and functional built environment.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Holcim
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Publication

For the people, by the people : results and lessons from a small grants programme

This booklet documents the achievements of selected projects of the Mangroves for the Future (MFF) Small Grants Programme in Sri Lanka, with emphasis on drawing lessons to improve future project performance.

Author(s):

  • Mahindapala, Ranjith
  • Ekaratne, Kumudini

Organization(s):

  • IUCN Sri Lanka
Publication Year: 
2010
Non IUCN Publication

Sustainable forest management, biodiversity and livelihoods : a good practice guide

The booklet provides a range of case studies and other materials to make the forest sector more biodiversity-friendly, and socially beneficial. It addresses the linkages between forestry, biodiversity, and development/poverty reduction.

Organization(s):

  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
  • IUCN
  • France, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Gobernanza forestal en Centroamérica : una aproximación al conocimiento de la gestión de los ecosistemas forestales

Author(s):

  • Soto, Victoria
  • McCarthy, Ronald

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
  • Cooperación Técnica Alemana
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Guía ambiental para el sector de desarrollo de infraestructura urbana : Guatemala, C.A.

La guía tiene como fin servir de instrumento técnico de referencia para la planificación y ejecución ordenada y sistemática de medidas ambientales de prevención, corrección, mitigación, minimización o compensación para aquellas acciones de la actividad de desarrollo de infraestructura urbana, que

Author(s):

  • Gättgens, Allan Astorga

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Guatemala, Ministerio de Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
Publication Year: 
2007
IUCN Publication

Diagnóstico de medios de vida y capitales de la comunidad de Humedales de Medio Queso, Los Chiles, Costa Rica.

Author(s):

  • Gutiérrez, Isabel
  • Siles Calvo, Jackeline

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), CR
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

ABC cambio climático : una guía para entender el cambio climático

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Asociación Coordinadora Indígena y Campesina de Agroforestría Comunitaria Centroamericana
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Memoria del taller sobre manejo forestal comunitario, políticas forestales e incidencia política

Este documento refleja los aprendizajes alcanzados tras la sistematización de un conjunto de experiencias sobre manejo forestal comunitario, su relación con las políticas forestales y la incidencia política.

Author(s):

  • Cabrera, Claudio

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Para valorar lo que valoramos : valoración multicriterio y valor económico total de Gandoca-Manzanillo (Costa Rica) y San San Pond Sak (Panamá)

Author(s):

  • Alvarado, Hernán

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Grey Literature

Biodiversity of agricultural lands in Russia : current state and trends

The report reviews a specific, usually ignored aspect of agricultural lands existence - their role in biological and landscape diversity conservation. The report summarizes the impact of agriculture on biodiversity and the usefulness of biodiversity for commercial use of lands.

Author(s):

  • Smelansky, Ilya E.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • IUCN Russia
  • IUCN, Office for the Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Netherlands, Ministry for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
Publication Year: 
2003
IUCN Publication

Guidelines for financing protected areas in East Asia (Japanese version)

These guidelines address one of the most critical issues which protected area planners and managers face in the East Asia region: obtaining the funds needed to ensure the survival and success of protected areas.

Author(s):

  • Athanas, Andrea
  • Ghersi, Fernando
  • Shadie, Peter
  • Shultis, John
  • Vorhies, Frank

Organization(s):

  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
  • IUCN, Protected Areas Programme
Publication Year: 
2001
IUCN Publication

Guidelines for tourism in parks and protected areas of East Asia (Japanese version)

This publication provides a collection of material useful to planners and managers of parks and protected areas in East Asia.

Author(s):

  • Bowman, Margaret E.
  • Eagles, Paul F. J.
  • Tao, Teresa Chang-Hung

Organization(s):

  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
  • University of Waterloo, CA
Publication Year: 
2001
IUCN Publication

Sustainable tourism in protected areas : guidelines for planning and management (Japanese version)

The link between protected areas and tourism is as old as the history of protected areas. Though the relationship is complex and sometimes adversarial, tourism is always a critical component to consider in the establishment and management of protected areas.

Author(s):

  • Eagles, Paul F. J.
  • Haynes, Christopher D.
  • McCool, Stephen F.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
  • UNEP
  • World Tourism Organization
  • Cardiff University, UK
Publication Year: 
2002
IUCN Publication

Guidelines for management planning of protected areas (Arabic version) (لخطوط الارشادية للتخطيط الاداري للمناطق المحمية)

A Management Plan is a document which sets out the management approach and goals, together with a framework for decision making, to apply in a specific protected area over a given period of time.

Author(s):

  • Middleton, Julie
  • Thomas, Lee

Organization(s):

  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
  • University of Cardiff, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

ظام التخطيط الوطني للمناطق المحميه

A system plan is the design of a total reserve system covering the full range of ecosystems and communities found in a particular country, identifying the range of purposes of protected areas and the relationships among the system components (i.e.

Author(s):

  • Davey, Adrian G.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
  • University of Cardiff, Department of City and Regional Planning, UK
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Guía de infraestructura : instrumento de gestión ambiental

Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades del sector de infraestructura.

Author(s):

  • Peña, Efraín

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroaméricana
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Guía agrícola : instrumento de gestión ambiental

Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades agrícolas.

Author(s):

  • Hidalgo Dittel, Nancy

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroaméricana
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Guía porcícola : instrumento de gestión ambiental

Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades porcícolas.

Author(s):

  • Hidalgo Dittel, Nancy

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroaméricana
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Guía agroindustria : instrumento de gestión ambiental : empacadoras de frutas y hortalizas

Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para el sector agroindustrial (empacadoras de frutas y hortalizas).

Author(s):

  • Quijano Poumián, Martín

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroaméricana
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Guía avícola : instrumento de gestión ambiental

Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades avícolas.

Author(s):

  • Hidalgo Dittel, Nancy

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroaméricana
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Guía de turismo : instrumento de gestión ambiental y social

Esta Guía ofrece a las autoridades ambientales de cada país documentos de orientación técnica para una correcta gestión ambiental de proyectos de bajo y moderado impacto para las actividades turísticas.

Author(s):

  • Bien, Amos Roger

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroaméricana
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Seguimiento ambiental en Centroamérica : caso de estudio en Panamá, Costa Rica y El Salvador

El desarrollo de la EIA se ha enfocado principalmente a la etapa de análisis ambiental de los proyectos previa a la obtención del permiso ambiental, dejando a la etapa de seguimiento con un menor grado de desarrollo.

Author(s):

  • Paniagua Alfaro, Héctor

Organization(s):

  • Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroaméricana
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Base financiera de la gestión ambiental en Centroamérica

La base financiera de la gestión ambiental está intrínsicamente ligada en la actualidad a temas como cambio climático, cooperación internacional, justicia ambiental, distribución equitativa de beneficios que se generan con el uso de la biodiversidad, reconocimiento de valores culturales, y con lo

Author(s):

  • Matarrita V., Rodrigo

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Protejamos nuestros humedales! : guía práctica para aplicar la legislación ambiental relacionada con humedales en Nicaragua y Costa Rica

Como respuesta a la falta de información sobre el tema es que nace la iniciativa de elaborar por medio de un proceso participativo, un documento que de forma ilustrativa y sencilla explique las acciones que se deben tomar en caso de detectar daños ambientales en las comunidades, principalmente lo

Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Plan de Gestión Territorial de la Región del Humedal de San San Provincia de Bocas del Toro, Panamá

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), CR
  • AAMVECONA
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Memoria del primer conversatorio sobre ambiente y desarrollo urbano

La Memoria del Primer Conversatorio sobre Ambiente y Desarrollo Urbano, realizado en noviembre de 2007 en Costa Rica, se realizó con el fin de intercambiar experiencias sobre la integración del criterio ambiental y de riesgo dentro de la planificación del desarrollo de las ciudades centroamerican

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana
  • Sistema de la Integración Centroaméricana
  • Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
  • Holcim
  • Fundación para el Desarrollo Urbano
Publication Year: 
2008
IUCN Publication

Panel scientifique indépendant sur les activités pétrolières et gazières en République Islamique de Mauritanie : rapport définitif

Author(s):

  • Vliet, Geert van
  • Magrin, Géraud
  • Dessel, Bopp van
  • Chabason, Lucien

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
  • Mauritania, [Government]
  • Programme régional de conservation de la zone côtière et marine en Afrique de l'Ouest (PRCM)
  • Fondation internationale du Banc d'Arguin (FIBA)
  • Agence Française de Développement, FR
  • Fondation MAVA pour la nature
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Conservation for a new era (Chinese version)

Conservation for a New Era outlines the critical issues facing us in the 21st century, developed from the results of the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona in October 2008.

Author(s):

  • Mainka, Sue
  • McNeely, Jeffrey A.

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
Publication Year: 
2009
IUCN Publication

Activos naturales : informe anual 2009

Separate language editions. Also available in English and French

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Publication

Des actifs naturels : rapport annuel 2009

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Publication

Natural assets : annual report 2009

Organization(s):

  • IUCN
Publication Year: 
2010
IUCN Publication

Fortalecendo vozes para melhores escolhas: aprendizados sobre a construção de agendas setoriais para governança florestal no Acre

The Strengthening Voices for Better Choices Project (SVBC) was implemented in six countries, including Brazil.

Author(s):

  • Lino Pires, Liliana Mari

Organization(s):

  • IUCN, Amazon Projects Office
  • IUCN, Regional Office for South America
Publication Year: 
2010

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