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Guidelines for public use measurement and reporting at parks and protected areas
    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
3rd Regional membership conference 1998 report
Wild medicinal plants in Egypt : an inventory to support conservation and sustainable use
Intégration de la conservation des écosystèmes forestiers au développement rural du Sud et de l'Est du Cameroun
Lista de fauna de importancia para la conservación en Centroamérica y México, listas rojas, listas oficiales y especies en Apéndices CITES
Report of the International workshop on population-poverty-environment linkages : key results and policy actions
Tenure and sustainable use
    Oglethorpe, James

The issue of tenure strikes at the heart of much of what "the nations of the world" hold most precious - their capacity to sustain themselves. This volume was compiled in 1998 to communicate the science and scholarship of tenure to policy makers and decision makers around the world. It represents a snapshot of the issue of tenure and sustainable use by a number of leading practitioners and academics in the field. The papers were presented at two conferences in 1998, the GBF Forum in Bratislava and Tenure and Sustainalbe Use in Oslo. The book is in two parts : Influence of Tenure and Access Rights on the Sustainability of Natural Resource Uses and Tenure and Sustainable Use. It is essential reading for those wishing to acquaint themselves with the subject or needing to explore it more fully
Wetlands, water and the law : using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
    Shine, Clare | Klemm, Cyrille de

This publication sets wetlands in their scientific, economic and legal context, before describing the main legal issues involved in implementing the Ramsar Convention. Parts 3-6 take an increasingly broad focus, dealing respectively with site-specific and bioregional approaches to wetland management, generally-applicable techniques for managing damaging processes and activities and, lastly, regional and international frameworks for cooperation. The book complements the recent work of scientists and economists by describing how laws and institutions can work for (or against) wetland conservation and wise use. Each chapter makes the link between international legal obligations and national or local mechanisms for delivering implementation. Drawing on national practice around the world, the book illustrates how different legal approaches and techniques can be adapted to widely-varying national conditions and capabilities. Key components for legal and institutional frameworks suited to the challenge of wise use implementations are set out in the conclusion
Assessing the international forest regime
    Tarasofsky, Richard G.

Provides an assessment of the international forest regime, in reponse to calls from many quarters, including the UN Intergovernmental Forum on Forests (IFF) and the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, as well as several NGOs. The focus is mainly on action taken by countries at the global level, in the framework of legally binding instruments and institutions. It builds on previous analyses of the international forest regime by looking beyond the legal mandates to begin exploring the actual performance of the components against their mandates. With the Intergovernmental Panel on Forests (IPF) Proposals for Action as the point for departure, the effectiveness and impact of individual legal instruments and global instutions are analyzed, as is the potential for synergy between them
Humedales de Mesoamérica : sitios Ramsar de Centroamérica y México
Develando el género : elementos conceptuales básicos para entender la equidad
Quien busca... encuentra : elaborando diagnósticos participativos con enfoque de género
The economic value of the environment : cases from South Asia
   

The tools of environmental economics are not as well-known in Asia as they should be. This volume seeks to fill this gap by building understanding in this important area and showing policy-makers how these tools can contribute to resolving important questions in South Asian development. The book begins with an overview paper explaining what economists think about the environment and introduces the tools of valuation, cost-benefit analysis and environmental accounting. The three case studies that follow apply these tools to specific problems in the region.
Steps to success : working with residents and neighbours to develop and implement plans for protected areas
Environmental economics in IUCN Nepal : activities, proceedings and selected papers
    Adhikari, Ambika P. | Pyakuryal, Bishwambher | Vlasbom, Jaklien

The first part of this publication provides an overview of IUCN Nepal's environmental economics programme, its major objectives and activities, and reviews its future plans. The second part forms a source book of information on environmental economics in Nepal. It is intended to help the reader understand the nature of environmental economics activities and to serve as an important reference material for students, researchers and policy-makers
Net losses : untying the Gordian knot of fishing overcapacity
    Lutchman, Indrani | Hoggarth, Daniel D.

An overview of issues for consideration when formulating national policy to implement the FAO International Programme of Action on the Management of Fishing Capacity
Wildlife legislation and institutional framework in Belize
Diagnóstico jurídico e institucional de la vida silvestre en Belice
Estrategias de biodiversidad : avances en América del Sur, volumen 1
Bears : status survey and conservation action plan
    Herrero, Stephen | Peyton, Bernard | Servheen, Christopher

The eight species of bear live in more than 65 countries or autonomous regions in four continents, in a variety of habitats from tropical rainforests to arctic ice. Numerous human cultures around the world symbolically or physically try to incorporate the power of bears into their people. But all species have declined in numbers due to the impacts of human activities, including: habitat alteration and destruction; unregulated killing of bears for sport; sale of parts for medicinal products; and protection of crops or livestock. This plan sets out priority actions for bear conservation, including surveys of status and distribution; cooperative projects and cross-border management; research projects to develop basic knowledge of habitat requirements; and documentation of the impacts of illegal trade. As bears are umbrella species in most of the ecosystems they inhabit, conservation of bears and their habitats will preserve biodiversity in these areas and focus management efforts on preserving watershed resources that also sustain human populations
L'évaluation des impacts sur l'environnement : processus, acteurs et pratique
Linkages in the landscape : the role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
    Bennett, Andrew F.

The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats is one of the major issues in wildlife management and conservation. Habitat "corridors" are sometimes proposed as an important element within a conservation strategy. Examples are given of corridors both as pathways and as habitats in their own right. Includes detailed reviews of principles relevant to the design and management of corridors, their place in regional approaches to conservation planning, and recommendations for research and management
Metals from the forests : mining and forest degradation
The green web : a union for world conservation
    Holdgate, Martin W.

IUCN has been described as "the conservation world's best-kept secret". It is the oldest global conservation body, founded 50 years ago. For half a century it has been a "green web", linking governments, non-governmental organizations and the world's leading individual conservationists and providing a unique forum where they can meet and debate. It has prepared global strategies and originated some of the world's most important environmental laws. It is the world authority on threatened species and on national parks and protected areas. Its influence has been enormous - and yet few people outside the conservation world understand what it is and what it does. This book describes the history of IUCN, drawing on a mass of hitherto-unpublished sources and the memories of many who have played a key part in world conservation down the years. But it also sets the "green web" in context, reviewing how it has influenced the whole world environmental movement in a half century that has unquestionably been the "age of environment"
Clé de détermination des stations forestières du Canton du Jura et du Jura bernois. Volume 2 : Commentaires
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