Protected area economics and policy : linking conservation and sustainable development
These papers seek to show how environmental economics can be brought in to assist with the design and management of protected areas.
IUCN Secretariat contributions to externally published literature
A global representative system of marine protected areas. Vol.1 : Antarctic, Arctic, Mediterranean, Northwest Atlantic, Northeast Atlantic and Baltic
This report provides a basis for development and implementation of a global system of marine protected areas to protect and manage representative examples of the world's rich marine biodiversity. It identifies priorities for establishing new marine protected areas and improving management of existing ones in each of the world's 18 major regions.
Priorities for conserving global species richness and endemism
This report reviews current knowledge of global biodiversity, discusses priorities, assesses policies required, and suggests where efforts of the Convention and its financial mechanisms should be focused.
The biodiversity information clearing house : concept and challenges
Prepared as an input to the discussions on the establishment, under the auspices of the Convention, of a clearing house to promote and facilitate technical and scientific cooperation in the field of conservation and sustainabile use of biological diversity.
