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E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
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A new agenda for forest conservation and poverty reduction : making markets work for low-income producers
Nowhere to hide : the trade in Sumatran tiger
IOC-IUCN-NOAA consultative meeting on large marine ecosystems (LMEs), fifth session, Paris, France, 3-4 March 2003
World Conservation Congress : agenda and documentation
Guidelines for planning and managing mountain protected areas
    Hamilton, Lawrence S. | McMillan, Linda

Mountains are special places. For many they are sacred; to most they bring an uplifting of the spirit and refreshment; to all they bring water, and rich biodiversity. Many of them have received legislative recognition by designation as parks or reserves of various kinds, and it is for the planners and managers of this estate that this book has been written. Contained within are guidelines and recommendations, which hopefully will be the foundation for more specific guidelines to be developed at national and then protected area levels.
Conservation on private lands : the Australian experience
    Figgis, Penelope

Australia's rich and distinct biodiversity is under multiple threats including loss of habitat to human settlement, agriculture and grazing, introduction and spread of alien invasives, pollution, altered fire regimes and landclearing. The landclearing rate of c. 500,000 hectares p.a. is comparable to the worst African, South American and Asian de-forestation rates, much occurring on private lands. This paper gives a brief survey of the ecological and social factors driving the increasing emphasis on private lands in the national biodiversity effort. It also reviews some of the key mechanisms being explored to augment the formal parks system to stem the decline and result in long-term biodiversity gains. With a huge range of programmes and mechanisms being trialed, this paper presents a comprehensive overview
Power of partnership
Integrating Natura 2000, rural development and agri-environmental programmes in central Europe : proceedings of the conference
Study on the impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on protected areas in chose EU-acceding countries : Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia
Trade, biodiversity and sustainable development : proceedings of a training workshop
    Moore, Patricia | Wanhua Yang

The aims of the workshop were to enhance individual and institutional capacity to : address the environmental aspects of trade issues that will arise as a result of China’s WTO membership; participate in WTO negotiations and develop proactive positions in the WTO; implement the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and improve the implementation of CITES; and increase local and national support for the integration of trade, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
How is your MPA doing? : a guidebook of natural and social indicators for evaluating marine protected areas management effectiveness
    Parks, John E. | Pomeroy, R. S. (Robert S.) | Watson, Lani M.

IUCN, WWF and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have developed this guidebook to assist marine protected area (MPA) managers in assessing the performance of their MPA. Based on this assessment, it shows how necessary changes can be made to improve management measures. It presents a flexible approach that can be used in many types of MPA and offers a variety of specific biological, socio-economic and governance indicators to measure the effectiveness of management actions in achieving MPA goals and objectives.
Activity report 2003 : information for members
Linkages in practice : a review of their conservation value
    Bennett, Graham

Until well into recent times, a high level of connectivity existed among ecosystems. Through the ever-increasing extent and intensity of human exploitation of natural resources, however, the pattern of human activities as islands in a sea of nature has become reversed in most of the world’s regions. Habitat fragmentation is now one of the most important causes of the decline in biodiversity. The main purpose of this review is to assist the understanding of the practical value of maintaining, enhancing, creating or restoring linkages.
Enhancing social sustainability in activities to combat desertification : a manual for reflection
   

In West Africa, desertification threatens the living conditions of over 250 million people. The results of projects to combat desertification undertaken over the last 40 years or so have been mixed. One reason for this is probably that technical or technological approaches have taken precedence over the sociological approach. This manual is intended to bring the reader back to the social dimensions of the fight against desertification, focusing on sustainable management of natural resources in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid environments.
Protected areas and biodiversity : an overview of key issues
El despertar ambiental : publicaciones de los primeros 15 años de UICN en Mesoamérica
Otsenka effektivnosti : podkhody k otsenke deyatelnosti osobo okhranyaemykh prirodnykh territoriy
    Dudley, Nigel | Hockings, Marc | Stolton, Sue

This publication proposes a framework for assessing management effectiveness, recognising the need for a variety of responses depending on needs and resources. It aims to help all those who wish to assess protected areas, both in suggesting what needs to be done and in providing some guidelines. It includes six practical case studies from Australia, the Congo Basin, Central America, South America and the USA
Ekonomicheskaya tsennost okhranyaemykh prirodnykh territoriy : posobie dlya rukovoditeley okhranyaemykh prirodnykh territoriy
   

This guide illustrates the potential for using valuation as a tool for diversifying the funding structure for protected areas and for providing information about stakeholders which is crucial for effective management. It provides information and examples of how economic valuation tools and methodologies have been and can be applied to protected areas and is intended to enable protected area managers to determine how they can use valuation as a tool for conserving, sustainably using, and equitably sharing biological resources and to enable economists to help fulfil those goals
Feasibility of a monitoring programme for the Guiana Shield Initiative
    Schut, V. T.

The Guiana Shield region contains more than 25% of the world’s tropical rainforests, most still in pristine condition. The Guiana Shield Initiative is working to preserve this ecologically important and unique area of the earth. In order to do so, up-to-date and accurate information is needed – a greater part of which could be fulfilled by the development of a suitable monitoring system based on remote sensing methods. The aim of this report is to outline the approach to monitoring that could be taken when contracts are established between local ecosystem managers and the Guiana Shield regional financial mechanism. Information needs feasibility and costs of monitoring at a regional level are identified and a proposal for a multi-scale monitoring system is made.
Sustainable ecotourism in the Guiana shield region : a working document for the Guiana Shield Initiative
    Olsder, Kike

The Guiana Shield has 10-15% of the world’s freshwater reserves, a virtually uninterrupted stretch of 2.5 million km2 of tropical rainforests and biodiversity that exists only in this region. This region performs vital functions for the world’s climate, the regional hydrology and the preservation of biological capital. Revenue from tourism from visitors enjoying the wonders of the Guiana Shield should be a sizeable part of the economy. The industry must be developed respecting the nature and culture of the region, with the proceeds and employment distributed amongst stakeholders. This report aims to alert policymakers to ecotourism as a key factor in a truly sustainable economy of the Guiana Shield region.
Pilot program to conserve the Brazilian rain forest [PPG-7] : possibilities for cooperation with the Guiana Shield Initiative
The environmental awakening : the first 15 years of the IUCN in Mesoamerica
Annual report 2003 Regional Office for West Africa
The return of the water : restoring the Waza Logone floodplain in Cameroon
    Loth, Paul

This book tells the story of times past, when wetlands were considered as wastelands and decision makers and managers were unaware of their benefits, a time when the adverse impacts of hydropower and irrigation schemes on ecosystems and people downstream seemed unimportant. Today wetland ecosystems are viewed as essential elements in integrated river basin planning, which draws upon the most appropriate modern science and traditional knowledge. This book tells of the partial restoration of the Waza Logone floodplain of Cameroon, using lessons from the floodplain’s history to partially correct earlier mistakes.
Diversity makes the difference : actions to guarantee gender equity in the application of the Convention on biological diversity
    Azofeifa, Francisco | Blanco Lobo, Montserrat | Rodríguez Villalobos, Guiselle

This book intends to highlight the importance of biodiversity in the broadest sense of the term, by making visible and illustrating the differentiated relations that women and men establish with nature and the consequences thereof in regard to development promotion. This document is basically focused on the recognition of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the National Biodiversity Strategies (NBS), as participation and awareness-raising mechanisms of our societies to build a new form of relation between human beings and their environment.
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