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This report provides results of testing the Workbook for Assessing Management Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas in the Western Indian Ocean at eight pilot sites in three countries. The assessment looks at not only the impacts but also the effectiveness of the management process. It does not require the collection of new data, unless that can be done quickly but provides a "snap-shot" of management effectiveness at a particular point in time, with recommendations for improvement.

Community Environmental Action Planning (CEAP) is a stripped-down and simple participatory approach that has been used successfully over several years, and in a variety of forms, to introduce a greater degree of participation into environmental planning.

This paper outlines the progress of the East Asian region towards the goals adopted in the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) and in the implementation of the Regional Action Plan for the Protected Areas of East Asia (RAP); findings of which arose from the East Asia workshop on implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas (CBD PoWPA), the ‘East Asia workshop’.

Le projet MEDITERRANE-ON: “Définition d'indicateurs de durabilité dans l'aquaculture méditerranéenne” a pour but de concevoir des outils, sous la forme d'indicateurs, qui permettent de diagnostiquer l'état de l'aquaculture dans la région, en tenant compte de la perspective d'aligner les différents pays qui l'intègrent vers un développement de leurs secteurs aquacoles si possible plus durable.

This text looked to design tools, in the form of indicators, which enable an analysis of the state of aquaculture in the region to be made with the aim of moving the various countries that make up the region towards an even more sustainable aquaculture development.

El proyecto MEDITERRANE-ON: Indicadores de Sostenibilidad en Acuicultura Mediterránea para el Área Mediterránea, tiene la voluntad de avanzar en el diseño de las herramientas, en forma de indicadores, que permitan realizar un diagnóstico del estado de la acuicultura de la región, considerando la perspectiva de alinear a los distintos países que la integran hacia un desarrollo, si cabe más sostenible de sus sectores acuícolas.

The first in a regional series, this report examines forest management experiences of Canada and the United States, which have interrelated histories, economies and similar ecological and social systems.