Publication | 2002
This action guide is the culmination of a four-year IUCN project on the convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the international trade regime. The point of departure for the project was the assumption that both the CBD and the World Trade Organization (WTO) represent regimes whose…
Publication | 2001
Our oceans are slowly dying, and the instruments of governance are inadequate to stop it. The international dimensions of ocean problems loom larger as we learn more about threats to marine species and ecosystems - invasive species are transported by international shipping, oceans fill with…
Publication | 2001
Guidelines for tourism in parks and protected areas of East Asia
This publication provides a collection of material useful to planners and managers of parks and protected areas in East Asia. It has been designed to help them think about the influx of tourism to natural protected areas, and to urge them to consciously plan for management of the interactions of…
Publication | 2000
This document reports on a project for the co-management and valorization of fisheries resources, carried out by IUCN Guinea-Bissau since 1991 (Rio Grande de Buba region). It aims to provide a summary analysis of the approach taken by the project and its achievements, in order to provide a set…
Publication | 2000
Cooperation in the European mountains, 3 : the sustainable management of climbing areas in Europe
Publication | 1999
Eco-labelling and sustainable fisheries
There is international consensus that many of the world's commercial fisheries are in distress. Eco-labelling schemes are increasingly perceived as a way to simultaneously maintain the productivity and economic value of fisheries while providing incentives for improved fisheries management and…
Publication | 2000
Net gains : linking fisheries management, international trade and sustainable development
An overview of the relationship between trade liberalisation under the WTO and the requirements of sustainable fisheries management. This document provides a helpful reference for use in trade and environment issues. Using fisheries as an issue requiring urgent attention, it illustrates a range…
Publication | 1999
Guidelines for public use measurement and reporting at parks and protected areas
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…
Grey literature | 1999
Net losses : untying the Gordian knot of fishing overcapacity
An overview of issues for consideration when formulating national policy to implement the FAO International Programme of Action on the Management of Fishing Capacity
Publication | 1998
Sharks and their relatives : ecology and conservation
Sharks and their relatives, the rays and chimaeras, are the diverse group of cartilaginous fishes that have evolved over 400 million years. Historically considered of low economic value to large-scale fisheries, today many of these fishes have become the target of directed commercial and…