IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Search the protected areas of our planet! ProtectedPlanet is a 21^st Century communication tool, incorporating some of the best social media approaches, to generate new constituencies of interest and information for protected areas.

Access to ProtectedPlanet: www.ProtectedPlanet.net

 Although no special software is required to use the TerraLook images, we do offer the TerraLook desktop software for those who wish to manipulate images and overlays. 

Access to TerraLook http://terralook.cr.usgs.gov  

The goal of the Alliance is to create a front line of defense against extinction by eliminating threats and restoring habitat to allow species populations to rebound

Website http://www.zeroextinction.org/

Guía orientadora, que proporciona herramientas prácticas para el desarrollo de expedientes técnicos, planes maestros, y otros instrumentos desarrollados para asegurar la participación, la gobernanza y la cogestión de áreas de conservación, donde la población local es parte de la gestión y de los procesos.

La caja de herramientas surge de la necesidad de compilar los conceptos, los lineamientos técnicos, las metodologías y otras consideraciones, necesarias para mejorar las capacidades de gestión de espacios de conservación de responsabilidad regional y local.

La caja de herramientas está dirigida principalmente al personal técnico, que comprende al personal tanto de las instituciones responsables (municipios, gobiernos regionales) como de las instituciones colaboradoras tales como universidades, ONG y otras instituciones que ejecutan tareas conjuntas para el desarrollo e implementación de áreas de conservación municipales y regionales.

La caja está compuesta por siete fascículos que permitirán al lector acceder a información enfocada en temas específicos sobre las áreas de conservación en el país.

Leer más: http://www.pdrs.org.pe/node/1333

The purpose of this Web site is to provide information about the initiative, provide tools to marine protected area (MPA) practitioners, and to facilitate a learning network among MPAs to improve management effectiveness. It is a central location for general project information, project progress, relevant documents, contact information, and details on upcoming events

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The Toolkit was designed to support MPA managers in the WIO by providing them with a hands-on guide to a diverse array of topics, ranging from Communications, Monitoring Coral Reefs, Energy Sources, Solid Waste Disposal, to Octopus and Sea Cucumber Fisheries.

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This website - and report - is part of a first attempt at a large scale assessment of protected areas using objective continent-wide data sets and methodologies as opposed to case studies on individual parks or global assessments (e.g. Chape et al 2005). The website contain information on 741 protected areas, across 50 countries, and includes information on 280 mammals, 381 bird species and 930 amphibian species, and a wide range of climatic, environmental and socioeconomic information. The purpose of the work is to provide to decision makers a regularly updated tool to assess the state of Africa PAs and to prioritize them according to biodiversity values and threats so as to support decision making and fund allocation processes. We are continually looking to improve and update this website. We would be happy to receive any comments and suggestions as to how this website can be improved - more or better data or how to best present the data for example.

The aim of the Network (NV&F) is to stimulate the development and exchange of practical tools and best practice for the valuation of ecosystem goods and services, so that decisions concerning economic development are made with full awareness and understanding of all the costs and benefits involved.

The site offers features such as: a publication database which provides the opportunity to both download and upload relevant information, a case study database for identifying related case studies in the field, discussion platforms where members can communicate within an online forum and national platforms,specifically tailored to a certain country

http://topshare.wur.nl/naturevaluation; and
http://topshare.wur.nl/naturevaluation/73766

The EVRI is a searchable storehouse of empirical studies on the economic value of environmental benefits and human health effects. It has been developed as a tool to help policy analysts use the benefits transfer approach. Using the EVRI to do a benefits transfer is an alternative to doing new valuation research

http://www.evri.ca

This toolkit provides clear guidance on how the value of the environment in small islands can be estimated and incorporated into planning and development decisions. It explains why you would undertake a study, who should be involved, how to implement the study and how to use the results

http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-4065

ValuAsia: Benefits Transfer for Southeast Asia Document(s) 42 of 42 Romel R. Saplaco and Herminia A. Francisco - Department of Economics, University of the Philippines Los Baños With the heightening awareness that environmental quality is a scarce resource, the need to properly incorporate the environment in policy and decision making is becoming more relevant. This situation emphasizes the importance of environmental valuation in policy and decision making.

The ValuAsia Archive encourages less developed and developing countries in Southeast Asia, such as the Philippines, to consider the environment in policy development and decision making endeavors.

The ValuAsia Archive accomplishes such an endeavor by being a conveniently ready database of environmental valuation studies focusing on primary studies from Southeast Asia and from other countries. It also encourages the proper use of benefits transfer, to help narrow the information gap that hinders policy makers from fully considering environmental factors in decision-making. Such an effort would also increase the use of environmental valuation in decision-making.
 

The ValuAsia Archive is open to future additions and/or revisions of whatever information it contains. It is envisioned to provide intelligent and practical solutions and answers to environmental valuation problems and needs of Southeast Asia

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-8767-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/cbd-ts-28.pdf