Protected areas

Protected landscapes and wild biodiversity

2012 Dudley, Nigel | Stolton, Sue |

Protected Landscapes are a strong option for biodiversity conservation in human-influenced landscapes and seascapes. They often contain threatened or endemic species. There is now also a growing interest in the nature conservation benefits of protected landscapes. But do protected landscapes really protect wild biodiversity? The case studies collected here launch an investigation into wild biodiversity.

Strategic adaptive management guidelines for effective conservation of freshwater ecosystems in and around protected areas of the world

2012 Kingsford, Richard | Biggs, H. C. |

This publication lays out the basic steps required by a catchment or protected area manager to begin the Strategic Adaptive Management (SAM) process. We provide the series of steps to help deal with the complex task facing the freshwater manager. The guide provides a framework for managing the maintenance of flow regimes and water quality to support healthy ecosystem services desired by stakeholders.

Sites naturels sacrés : lignes directrices pour les gestionnaires d'aires protégées

2012

Ces lignes directrices sont produites d'abord pour aider les gestionnaires d'aires protégées, particulièrement ceux dont les aires protégées, légalement établies, contiennent des sites sacrés à l'intérieur de leurs limites.

Guidelines for applying protected area management categories (Japanese version)

2008

IUCN’s Protected Areas Management Categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives, are today accepted as the benchmark for defining, recording and classifying protected areas.They are recognized by international bodies such as the United Nations as well as many national governments. As a result, they are increasingly being incorporated into government legislation.

Guidelines for protected areas legislation : guidelines : English version, case studies and matrices

2011 Lausche, Barbara J. |
The purpose of these guidelines is to update and expand the original guidelines on protected areas legislation published in 1980 and to reflect new developments and emerging issues. These developments include significant advances in international environmental law, and an improved scientific understanding of the role of protected areas in nature conservation, including conserving biodiversity, maintaining ecosystem functions and supporting sustainable development.

Directrices para la legislación relativa a áreas protegidas

2012 Lausche, Barbara J. |

El proposito de las presentes directrices es actualizar las directrices originales publicadas en 1980, teniendo en cuenta la evolucion que ha tenido lugar desde entonces y las problematicas emergentes.

Defining protected areas : an international conference in Almeria, Spain, May 2007

2008 Dudley, Nigel | Stolton, Sue |
The “Categories Summit” which is reported in these proceedings was a major contribution to the revision of the IUCN protected area management categories. The proceedings are published in a spirit of openness and to provide easy access to much of the background thinking that led to the revised publication. The Summit took place in 2007, these proceedings are being published in 2008 as a source document at the same time as the revised categories.

Guía para la aplicación y monitoreo del enfoque ecosistémico

2011 Andrade Pérez, Angela | Arguedas Mora, Stanley | Vides, Roberto Almonacid |

La presente guía es un instrumento que permite hacer una rápida valoración del nivel de aplicación del Enfoque Ecosistémico (EE), por medio de un conjunto de preguntas que abordan aspectos fundamentales de la gestión de los ecosistemas para poder afirmar que el enfoque se está aplicando en un espacio geográfico determinado, en un proyecto o en algún esquema de intervención del territorio.

Un análisis del impacto de las resoluciones de la UICN en los esfuerzos internacionales de conservación

2012

Este documento destaca brevemente algunos de los principales impactos e influencias que las resoluciones han tenido en la conservación.
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