China

National biodiversity planning : guidelines based on early experiences around the world

1995 Lanou, Steven M. | Miller, Kenton |

Biodiversity captured worldwide attention at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro when 150 nations signed the Convention on Biological Diversity. Although most countries by now have had some experience planning and implementing biodiversity-related measures, few have approached them in the comprehensive, integrated manner required by the Convention.

Parks, peaks and people : a collection of papers arising from an international consultation on protected areas in mountain environments held in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, 26 October - 2 November 1991

1993

Nature reserves of the Himalaya and the mountains of Central Asia

1993 Green, Michael John Beverley |

This directory provides details of measures taken to date to establish a system of protected areas in the region, which includes Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of Pakistan, India, Burma, China and the former USSR. Each national system is reviewed and accompanied by a list and a map of protected areas. Over 100 individual properties are described in more detail.