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E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
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Trousse à outils : amélioration de notre patrimoine
   

La Trousse à outils contient douze outils pratiques ; chacun d’eux est conçu pour aider ceux qui sont responsables de la conservation des sites du patrimoine mondial à rassembler tous les éléments d’un cadre de gestion exhaustif, en ce compris l’élaboration de stratégies de suivi ciblées. Conçus comme des exercices séparés, comprenant chacun tableaux et lignes directrices, ils se veulent faciles à utiliser, flexibles et adaptables aux réalités locales. Bien qu’elle ait été mise au point avec comme point focal les biens naturels, l’initiative pourrait aussi être un outil intéressant pour la gestion des biens culturels.
Enhancing our heritage toolkit
   

The Toolkit contains twelve practical tools, each designed to help those responsible for World Heritage site conservation piece together the elements of a comprehensive management framework, including the construction of targeted monitoring strategies. Designed as separate exercises, each with tables and guidelines, the emphasis is on user-friendliness, flexibility, and adaptability to local realities. Although it has been developed with a focus on natural properties, the initiative also has potential value as a tool to assist cultural properties.
People and biodiversity policies
    Bagnoli, Philip | Goeschl, Timo | Kovács, Eszter

Biodiversity policies promote the protection, conservation, and sustainable use of biologically diverse ecosystems and habitats. In doing so, they create significant public benefits and contribute to social well-being. However, the implementation of biodiversity policies will often benefit different groups to a greater or lesser degree. Combining analysis and a wealth of case studies, this book offers concepts and tools for addressing distributive issues within a biodiversity policy context. 
Integrating people in conservation planning
Climate change and food security : a framework document
   

This document provides background information on the interrelationship between climate change and food security, and ways to deal with the new threat. It also shows the opportunities for the agriculture sector to adapt, as well as describing how it can contribute to mitigating the climate challenge.
Scoping agriculture-wetland interactions
    Halsema, Gerardo E. van | Wood, Adrian P.

This report explores the nature of agriculture-wetland interactions through the application of the drivers, pressures, state changes, impacts and responses (DPSIR) framework to 90 cases drawn from around the world. The report also discusses the role of wetlands in attaining the Millenium Development Goals, especially poverty reduction.
Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder
    Louv, Richard

Last Child in the Woods is the first book to bring together a new and growing body of research indicating that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development and for the physical and emotional health of children and adults.
Navigating social-ecological systems : building resilience for complexity and change
    Berkes, Fikret | Colding, Johan | Folke, Carl

In the effort towards sustainability, it has become increasingly important to develop conceptual frames to understand the dynamics of social and ecological systems. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is central in this context. Resilient social-ecological systems have the potential to sustain development by responding to and shaping change in a manner that does not lead to loss of future options. Resilient systems also provide capacity for renewal and innovation in the face of rapid transformation and crisis. The term navigating in the title is meant to capture this dynamic process. Case studies and examples from several geographic areas, cultures and resource types are included, merging forefront research from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities into a common framework for new insights on sustainability.
Water tower of Asia : experiences in wetland conservation in Nepal
   

The Himalayas are the water tower of Asia and are a precious resource to be used wisely and protected for human welfare, research and eduction. This book, which consists of 18 articles, is aimed at practitioners, planners and researchers to be of use in the management, conservation and sustainable development of the Himalayan high altitude wetlands and their resources.
Guidelines for applying protected area management categories (Czech version)
   

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 national governments. As a result, they are increasingly being incorporated into government legislation. These guidelines provide as much clarity as possible regarding the meaning and application of the Categories. They describe the definition of the Categories and discuss application in particular biomes and management approaches.
Pasos hacia la equidad y la sustentabilidad : informe de avance 2007
Separate streams ? Adapting water resources management to climate change
Ecological economic aspects of ecosystem approach (EA) and sustainable forest management (SFM) : case study of the Tuszyma Forest District in Poland
An Australian coral sea heritage park
Natura 2000 : préserver la biodiversité européenne
Diccionario de la biodiversidad
World natural heritage in Russia - in danger? (Russian version) = World natural heritage in Russian - in danger?
Intégrer la biodiversité dans les stratégies des entreprises : le bilan biodiversité des organisations
Cross-sectoral toolkit for the conservation and sustainable management of forest biodiversity
Changements climatiques 2007 : rapport de synthèse
Natural security : protected areas and hazard mitigation : a research report by WWF and Equilibrium
Worldchanging : a user's guide for the 21st century
    Steffen, Alex

This book offers insight into the best, most innovative solutions for tackling the world's biggest problems. We face an unprecedented planetary crisis, and this is no time to sit back and let others solve the problems for us; through participation and innovation, we can all play a part in making a difference. Full of ideas, solutions, and stories, this volume equips you with the tools you need. Whether you want to shop more responsibly, improve your community, fight poverty and disease, or launch an ethical business, the information is here for you to get started. Best of all, this book shows that changing the world doesn't have to conflict with living the life you want -- that being a smart consumer, improving the lives of others, and being kinder to the planet can lead to a healthier, happier, more exciting life.
Green carbon : the role of natural forests in carbon storage : part 1 : a green carbon account of Australia's south-eastern eucalypt forests, and policy implications
    Mackey, Brendan (Brendan G.) | Keith, Heather | Berry, Sandra L. | Lindenmayer, David B.

The colour of carbon matters. Green carbon is the carbon stored in the plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle. This report is the first in a series that examines the role of natural forests in the storage of carbon, the impacts of human land use activities, and the implications for climate change policy nationally and internationally. REDD (“reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation”) is now part of the agenda for the “Bali Action Plan” being debated in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009. Currently, international rules are blind to the colour of carbon so that the green carbon in natural forests is not recognised, resulting in perverse outcomes including ongoing deforestation and forest degradation, and the conversion of extensive areas of land to industrial plantations. This report examines REDD policy from a green carbon scientific perspective. Subsequent reports will focus on issues concerning the carbon sequestration potential of commercially logged natural forests, methods for monitoring REDD, and the long term implications of forest policy and management for the global carbon cycle and climate change.
Livro Vermelho da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinçâo
    Machado, Angelo B. M. | Drummond, Gláucia Moreira | Paglia, Adriano Pereira

No livro são apresentados dados sobre a biologia, distribuição geográfica, presença em unidades de conservação, principais ameaças, estratégias de conservação, indicações de especialistas e de núcleos de pesquisa e conservação envolvidos com as espécies. Essas informações são valiosas tanto para o gestor ambiental, cujo objetivo de trabalho é a elaboração e execução de políticas públicas, quanto para acadêmicos e o público em geral. Esta é a primeira vez que uma única obra reúne dados científicos sobre todas as espécies brasileiras reconhecidas oficialmente como ameaçadas de extinção.
The bottom billion : why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it
    Collier, Paul

Global poverty, economist Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. Here, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. This group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world’s people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages within each of these nation between reformers and corrupt leaders--and the corrupt are winning. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, and offers a bold new plan.--From publisher description.
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