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E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
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Freshwater ecoregions of North America
    Abell, Robin | Olson, David | Dinerstein, Eric | Hurley, Patrick T.

North America's freshwater habitats and the extraordinary biodiversity they contain are facing unprecedented threats from a range of sources. As an initial step in identifying those areas where protective and restorative measures should be implemented first, World Wildlife Fund-US assembled a team of leading scientists to conduct a conservation assessment of freshwater ecoregions. Freshwater Ecoregions of North America presents that assessment and outlines measures that must be taken to conserve, and in many cases restore, native biodiversity. 
De Ackerdijkse Plassen
Rural livelihoods and diversity in developing countries
    Ellis, Frank

Both livelihoods and diversity have become popular topics in development studies. The livelihood concept offers a more complete picture of the complexities of making a living in rural areas of low income countries than terms formerly considered adequate, such as subsistence, incomes, or employment. Diversity recognizes that people manage by doing many different things rather than just one or a few things. This book sets out the rural livelihoods approach within the larger context of past and current themes in rural development. It adopts diversity as its principal theme and explores the implications of diverse rural livelihoods for ideas about poverty, agriculture, environment, gender, and macroeconomic policy. It also considers appropriate methods for gaining quick and effective knowledge about the livelihoods of the rural poor for project and policy purposes.


Table of Contents: 

Part I. Concepts, Definitions, and Framework 
1: Livelihoods, Diversification, and Agrarian Change 
2: A Framework for Livelihoods Analysis 
Part II. Dimensions of Diverse Rural Livelihoods 
3: Determinants of Livelihood Diversification 
4: Poverty and Income Distribution 
5: Agriculture and Farm Productivity 
6: Environment and Sustainability 
7: Gender and Rural Livelihoods 
8: Macro Policies and Reform Agendas 
Part III. Investigating Livelihoods for Policy Purposes 
9: Methods and Livelihoods 
10: A Case-Study in Rural Tanzania 
Part IV. Looking Ahead 
11: Livelihoods, Diversification, and Policies 
The Orang Asli and the contest for resources
From policy to implementation : decisions from the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Nairobi, Kenya, 15-26 May 2000
Guidelines for public use measurement and reporting at parks and protected areas (Chinese version)
    Eagles, Paul F. J. | Hornback, Kenneth E.

Visitors to parks and protected areas impact at many levels: political, economic, social and ecological. To ensure effective park management for increasing visitor numbers, good quality global data on visitor use is necessary. This manual describes terms, approaches and techniques for gathering information about public use of parks and protected areas. It covers a mixture of options ranging from direct measurements with automatic counters to indirect measurements based on simple mathematical calculations, providing a kit for producing the most accurate and sustainable enumeration of public use of protected areas under existing circumstances.
Congreso Mundial de la Naturaleza : mociones
The ingenuity gap
    Homer-Dixon, Thomas F.

Through gripping narrative stories and incidents that exemplify his arguments, the author takes us on a world tour that begins with a heartstopping description of the tragic crash of United Airlines Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago and includes Las Vegas in ts desert, a wilderness beach in British Columbia, and his solitary search for a little girl in Patna, India. He shows how, in our complex world, while poor countries are particularly vulnerable to ingenuity gaps, our own rich countries are not immune, and we are caught dangerously between a soaring requirement for ingenuity and an increasingly uncertain supply. When the gap widens, political disintegration and violent upheaval can result, reaching into our own economies and daily lives in subtle ways. In compelling, lucid, prose, he makes real the problems we face and suggests how we might overcome them - in our own lives, our thing, our business and our societies.
A guide to the assessment of biological diversity : draft
Coastcare fact sheet series
   

This beautifully illustrated series was compiled by a group of talented specialists in the marine and coastal field. It provides a wealth of scientifically established facts on the South African coast for use by the public, schools, libraries and coastal communities. There are over 200 fact sheets and 6 posters.
Climate change and its linkages with development, equity and sustainability
La gestion locale des forêts du Sahel : vers un nouveau contrat social
Case studies on sustainable tourism and biological diversity
Environmental indicators for tropical areas
Nature in focus : rapid ecological assessment
IUCN policy statement on sustainable use of wild living resources
Intellectual property rights in agriculture : the World Bank's role in assisting borrower and Member countries
    Lele, Uma J. | Lesser, William | Horstkotte-Wesseler, Gesa

Private investment in agricultural biotechnology research by seed companies is increasingly rapidly. The privatization of intellectual property, and the associated emergence of the private sector as the major force in agricultural technology generation, is beginning to have a profound impact on farmers and researchers in industrial and developing countries. The report looks at intellectual property right (IPR) from various perspectives - industry, International Agricultural Research Centers (IARCs), and national systems and universities. It also summarizes that the Bank can assist clients in various ways by : 1) becoming a catalyst for promoting policy research in IPR issues to fill in the gaps in knowledge and need for further research; 2) developing strategies for assisting to strengthen national IPR systems; 3) identifying and removing practical hurdles to implementing effective IPR systems; 4) incorporating IPRs within the scientific and related communities.
Human natures : genes, cultures, and the human prospect
Estrategia nacional sobre biodiversidad de Mexico
Bangladesh : toward an environment strategy
Anticosti : l'éden apprivoisé
    Ouellet, Yves

Anticosti, ce morceau de continent échoué comme une baleine sur son flanc, a attiré de tout temps les êtres épris de liberté. Ce récif démesuré a seine la mort mais il a aussi donne le bonheur. Une solitude obsédante s'en dégage, devenant le refuge de ceux qui rêvent d'un nouveau monde en marge de la modernité. La relation d'Alain Dumas et d'Yves Ouellet avec Anticosti en est une de passion, presque d'obsession. Depuis qu'ils ont mis pied sur cette de envoûtante, elle occupe leurs songes, leurs souvenirs, leurs projets, leurs aines et leurs esprits. Pour bien assimiler ce paradis au cœur du golfe du Saint-Laurent, ils se sont d'abord imprégnés de son histoire fabuleuse. Puis ils ont goûté chacune de ses saisons, explorant les régions les plus inaccessibles, les canyons vertigineux, les côtes escarpées, les plages de galet, la forêt giboyeuse, la mer imprévisible de même que les immenses baies de brouillard et de paix. Alain Dumas traduit magnifiquement par sa vision de l'île et la charge d'inspiration qu'elle lui procure. Il en fait ressortir l'infinité de nuances, la gamme d'ambiances et la profondeur de l'espace qui caractérisent ce théâtre naturel incomparable. Yves Ouellet nous transmet la magie de l'île en faisant revivre les personnages extraordinaires qui ont traverse son histoire et en nous racontant de façon imagée son périple fascinant dans cette nature grandiose.
Paisajes culturales en Mesoamérica : memoria
Scotland's environment : the future
    Holmes, George | Crofts, Roger

In this publication, a group of contributors look back at changes in the environment and land use over the centuries before trying to forcast where current events and trends are taking us. Their main purpose is to examine and consider what actions might be taken to ameliorate unwelcome trends and promote beneficial ones. The end product is an "Agenda for Action" recommending the kinds of policies and practices that would be likely to enhance the environmental qualities most valued by society."
Introduced species in the Nordic countries
Between the Sahara and the Atlantic : Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania
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