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Benefits Beyond Boundaries: Proceedings of the Vth Iucn World Parks Congress

Product Description: The Vth IUCN World Parks Congress was the largest gathering of protected area experts. In September 2003, some 3,000 participants met in Durban, South Africa for 10 days of reflection, discussion, debate and networking to consider the state of the worldâs protected areas, the challenges they face and the opportunities that lie ahead...read more

By Iucn and South World Parks Congress 2003 Durban

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9782831708294 | Pap/cdr edition (World Conservation Union, October 1, 2005), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Vth IUCN World Parks Congress was the largest gathering of protected area experts.

An Introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature Resources: Iucn Enivornmental Policy And Law Paper

Product Description: The African Convention on the conservation of nature and natural resources was adopted in 1968 in Algiers. Considered the most forward looking regional agreement of the time, it influenced significantly the development of environmental law in Africa...read more

By Iucn

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9782831708171 | World Conservation Union, October 15, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The African Convention on the conservation of nature and natural resources was adopted in 1968 in Algiers.

Guidelines for Application of Iucn Red List Criteria at Regional Levels: Version 3.0

Product Description: These guidelines provide a logical framework for assessing species at sub-global levels; a means of sharing status information with neighboring countries; and a suggested format for documentation and publication of listings to improve compatibility with the global IUCN Red List of Threatened Species...read more

By Iucn

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9782831707389 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 2003, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: These guidelines provide a logical framework for assessing species at sub-global levels; a means of sharing status information with neighboring countries; and a suggested format for documentation and publication of listings to improve compatibility with the global IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Parks for Biodiversity: Policy Guidance Based on Experience in Acp Countries

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By Commission of the European Communities Directorate-General development (corporate author), Sylvia Howe, Iucn (editor), Iucn World Commission on Protected Areas (corporate author) and Hugh Synge

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9782831704647 | World Conservation Union, June 1, 1999, cover price $30.00

Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas

Product Description: The world urgently needs a comprehensive system of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to conserve biodiversity and to help rebuild the productivity of the oceans. The aim of these Guidelines is to help countries establish systems of MPAs as a key component of integrated management of coastal and marine areas and as part of their sustainable development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Iucn (editor) and Graeme Kelleher (editor)

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9782831705057 | World Conservation Union, September 28, 1999, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: The world urgently needs a comprehensive system of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to conserve biodiversity and to help rebuild the productivity of the oceans.

Tenure and Substitute Use

Product Description: The issue of tenure strikes at the heart of much of what "the nations of the world" hold most precious - their capacity to sustain themselves. This volume was compiled in 1998 to communicate the science and scholarship of tenure to policy makers and decision makers around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9782831704739 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 1999, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The issue of tenure strikes at the heart of much of what "the nations of the world" hold most precious - their capacity to sustain themselves.

Guidelines for Public Use Measurement and Reporting at Parks and Protected Areas

Product Description: Visitors to parks and protected areas impact at many levels: political, economic, social and ecological. To ensure effective park management for increasing visitor numbers, good quality global data on visitor use is necessary. This manual describes terms, approaches and techniques for gathering information about public use of parks and protected areas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Paul F. J. Eagles

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9782831704760 | World Conservation Union, September 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Visitors to parks and protected areas impact at many levels: political, economic, social and ecological.

Evaluating Environmental Education

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By Iucn (editor)

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9782831704999 | World Conservation Union, September 1, 2000, cover price $25.00

Wetlands, Water and the Law

Product Description: This publication sets wetlands in their scientific, economic and legal context, before describing the main legal issues involved in implementing the Ramsar Convention. Parts 3-6 take an increasingly broad focus, dealing respectively with site-specific and bioregional approaches to wetland management, generally-applicable techniques for managing damaging processes and activities and, lastly, regional and international frameworks for cooperation...read more

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9782831704784 | World Conservation Union, September 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This publication sets wetlands in their scientific, economic and legal context, before describing the main legal issues involved in implementing the Ramsar Convention.

Integrating Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Rules of the World Trade Organization

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By David R. Downes and Iucn (editor)

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9782831705019 | World Conservation Union, September 1, 2000, cover price $25.00

Vision for Water and Nature: A World Strategy for Conservation and Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the 21st Century. Compilation of All Project Documents

Product Description: The Vision for Water and Nature is the "environment and ecosystems" component of the World Water Vision exercise of the World Water Council. It represents the first meaningful attempt to fully integrate environment issues into the development of a comprehensive strategy for water resource management at the global level...read more

By Iucn (corporate author)

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9782831705170 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 2000, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: The Vision for Water and Nature is the "environment and ecosystems" component of the World Water Vision exercise of the World Water Council.

Communities and Forest Management

Product Description: This handbook is designed for staff in protected areas around the world who encounter conflicts of all kinds. It presents a framework and strategies for responding to different types of conflicts, along with case studies that describe a variety of approaches for dealing with conflict...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9782831703602 | Intl Union for Conservation of, January 1, 1999, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: This handbook is designed for staff in protected areas around the world who encounter conflicts of all kinds.

Business and Biodiversity: A Guide for the Private Sector

Product Description: This guide explains how and why business should be involved in the biodiversity debate. It explains the main principles of the Convention on Biological Diversity and describes some of the Convention's potential implications. It also examines the many links between biodiversity and the private sector and highlights the need for a new, more rational approach to the manner in which biological resources are used and managed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Iucn (editor), Kristina Ringwood, R. David Stone and Frank Vorhies

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9782831704043 | Intl Union for Conservation of, January 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This guide explains how and why business should be involved in the biodiversity debate.

Guidelines for Cave and Karst Protection

Product Description: Cave and karst landforms are distributed widely around the world. They have many values and are an integral component of the world's biodiversity. Some are habitats for a wide range of endemic species of flora and fauna, while others house rare and endangered species...read more

By Iucn (editor), IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. Working Group on Cave and Karst Protection (corporate author) and John Watson (editor)

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9782831703886 | World Conservation Union, December 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Cave and karst landforms are distributed widely around the world.

Hyaenas

Product Description: Gar, a shaman of his clan, discovers a beheaded body in his territory. Now, No-Head's clansmen want Gar to find the killer or they will send evil spirits to destroy his kin. Gar, one of the Real People, or Neanderthals as we call them today, must search out the killer, traveling amid threats from man-eating animals and Hairies - or Cro-Magnons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sandy Dengler, Heribert Hofer, Iucn and Ssc Hyaena Specialist Group (corporate author)

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9780966187915 | St Kitts Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Gar, a shaman of his clan, discovers a beheaded body in his territory.

Beyond Fences: Seeking Social Sustainability in Conservation : A Resource Book

Product Description: Understanding and managing the concerns of local people is essential for the success of most, if not all, conservation initiatives. These two volumes are a resource set designed to help professionals employed in conservation initiatives to identify the social concerns that are relevant for their work, assess options for action and implement them...read more

By Iucn (editor)

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9782831703411 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Understanding and managing the concerns of local people is essential for the success of most, if not all, conservation initiatives.

Beyond Fences: Seeking Social Sustainability in Conservation

By Iucn (editor)

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9782831703404 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 1997, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Understanding and managing the concerns of local people is essential for the success of most, if not all, conservation initiatives.

1996 Iucn Red List of Threatened Animals

Product Description: The 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented. This is taken further in the 1996 edition, which is also the first global compilation to use the complete new IUCN Red List category system...read more

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9782831703350 | World Conservation Union, June 28, 1996, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented.

Report of the Fifth Global Biodiversity Forum 1996: 1-3 November 1996, Buenos Aires, Argentina

By Iucn and World Resources Institute

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9782831704098 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 1997, cover price $25.00

Grebes: Status, Survey, and Conservation Action Plan

Product Description: Grebes are specialized waterbirds which inhabit marshlands and reed-fringed lakes. Their dependence on wetlands is total and as a result they are particularly vulnerable to changes in ecosystems and their deterioration. So adapted are they to the wetlands they inhabit that they are an ideal indicator of the health of wetlands and the changes taking place, changes often imperceptible to humans...read more

By Jon Fjeldsa, Iucn, Colin F. J. O'Donnell and Ssc Grebe Specialist Group (corporate author)

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9782831704210 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Grebes are specialized waterbirds which inhabit marshlands and reed-fringed lakes.

Resolutions and Recommendations: World Conservation Congress, Montreal, Canada, 13-23 October 1996

Product Description: The Congress adopted some 111 Resolutions and Recommendations on a wide range of topics, available in English, French and Spanish. A summary account of the proceedings are also available.

By Iucn and World Conservation Congress

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9782831703916 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Congress adopted some 111 Resolutions and Recommendations on a wide range of topics, available in English, French and Spanish.

Fishing for a Living: The Ecology and Economics of Fishponds in Central Europe

Product Description: Fishponds represent a rich natural and cultural heritage of tremendous importance and are of great economic value to the regions in which they are found. This is particularly true of the fishponds found in Central and Eastern Europe, some of which were established 5 and 600 years ago...read more

By Iucn

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9782831703862 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Fishponds represent a rich natural and cultural heritage of tremendous importance and are of great economic value to the regions in which they are found.

The Conservation Biology of Molluscs: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the 9th International Malacological Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1986

By Iucn, IUCN--The World Conservation Union (corporate author), Alison K. Kay, E. Alison Kay (editor) and SSC Mollusc Specialist Group (corporate author)

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9782831700533 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 1995, cover price $27.00

1994 Iucn Red List of Threatened Animals

By Iucn

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9782831701943 | World Conservation Union, March 1, 1994, cover price $30.00

Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystems and Species: Environmental Context

By Iucn

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9782831701707 | World Conservation Union, January 1, 1994, cover price $20.00

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