National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century.
This guidelines outlines one management tool, strategic adaptive management, that has been developed by the staff and managers of Kruger National Park. This approach recognises and is responsive to global change factors in a realistic and practical manner. The guideline aims to present an overview of strategic adaptive management practice, or SAM, as it has emerged within the specific context of Kruger National Park.
This book includes twenty case studies of World Heritage sites from around the world that explore, from a human rights perspective, indigenous peoples’ experiences with World Heritage sites and with the processes of the World Heritage Convention.
É um periódico científico interdisciplinar, de acesso livre, que publica trabalhos inéditos em Ciências Florestais e ciências afins, na forma de artigos científicos, notas científicas e artigos de revisão, redigidos em português, inglês ou espanhol, nas seguintes áreas temáticas:
Between the 13th and 17th of November 2013, some 800 participants from 40 countries gathered at the Sendai International Center, Sendai city, Japan, to attend the first ever Asia Parks Congress (APC).
A large number of approaches have been developed over the last four decades for identifying places of significance for biodiversity, but unfortunately this requires looking at multiple, disconnected databases and other information sources to understand the sites of importance in a particular area.
Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated?
Asia has a rich cultural and natural heritage, but rapid development, population growth and an erosion of traditional practices are resulting in habitat loss and degradation, which is putting protected areas in Asia at risk and leading to serious decline in the biodiversity they harbour.
Esta publicación representa una contribución desde la UICN que demuestra la aplicación práctica de esta útil herramiento del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CBD) en la gestión de las áreas protegidas en Sudamérica. Los seis estudios de caso reflejan que su aplicación sí es posible en diferentes etapas y escalas de gestión territorial para la conservación.
La Amazonía es un territorio con una vasta diversidad social y ambiental; es un bioma clave para el planeta, no solo por su diversidad biológica, sino porque es fundamental para equilibrar los patrones del clima en la región. En terminos de conservación, en los últimos 10 anos, deske el V Congreso Mundial de Parques de UICN en Durban, ha sido significativa la evolución en la gestión efectiva de las áreas protegidas amazónicas.
