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The Situation Analyses of the Wami and Ruvu (including coastal rivers) sub-basins were produced as separate analyses of the status, conditions and key issues affecting ecosystems in each basin using existing available information.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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