Story | 04 Nov, 2008
Indigenous and Local Communites and Protected Areas Towards Equity and Enhanced Conservation
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Ashish Kothari & Gonzalo Oviedo
Best Practice Protected Areas Guidelines No.11.
Story | 02 Nov, 2008
The law of the mother : protecting indigenous peoples in protected areas
Kemf, Elizabeth, ed. ; McNeely, Jeffrey A., Afterword
WWF ; Sierra Club ; IUCN
Story | 02 Nov, 2008
Innovative governance : indigenous peoples, local communities, and protected areas
Jaireth, Hanna, ed. ; Smyth, Dermot, ed.
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy ; IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas ; Theme on Indigenous and Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas - TILCEPA
Story | 02 Nov, 2008
Can protected areas contribute to poverty reduction ?
Opportunities and limitations
Story | 28 Oct, 2008
This Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) report is dedicated to the increasingly popular topic of 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation' (REDD). Making REDD Work for the Poor outlines how the design of REDD could infuence its poverty implications and the key…
Press release | 04 Oct, 2008
Curtain rises on largest environmental meeting of 2008
The IUCN World Conservation Congress kicks off today in Barcelona, Spain, with its mission of boosting action to conserve nature. Leading questions are how to meet the growing needs of populations and expanding markets without sacrificing nature, and how to get conservation messages to new…
Story | 25 Jun, 2008
Policy Guidelines on Governance and Ecosystem Management for Biodiversity Conservation
The project GEM-CON-BIO (Governance and ecosystems management for the conservation of biodiversity) explored the interactions between different methods for the management, ownership and use of natural resources currently employed in Europe and globally to identify which processes and…
Press release | 06 Apr, 2008
Systems that save biodiversity
Regulations cannot guarantee conservation of biodiversity, reveals the EU-funded research project GEM-CON-BIO. The most successful governance patterns for biodiversity conservation are based on a mix of financial incentives, regulations and voluntary engagement, according to thirty case studies…
Story | 18 Mar, 2008
Building Biodiversity Business
The challenge of building biodiversity business is not trivial. Biodiversity is still largely neglected by private finance. There is a need to develop new business models and market mechanisms for biodiversity conservation, and to persuade the public and policy makers that biodiversity (or…