Story | 01 Oct, 2008
A Case Study from Northern Pakistan. IUCN Pakistan, GIAN, UNEP, UNIL (2007). vi+50pp. Authors: Sudmeier-Rieux, K., Qureshi, R.A., Peduzzi, P., Nessi, J., Breguet, A., Dubois, Jaboyedoff, M., Jaubert, R., Rietbergen, S., Klaus, R. and M.A. Cheema.
Story | 30 Sep, 2008
Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction: Landscapes, People and Power
Robert Fisher, Stewart Maginnis, William Jackson, Edmund Barrow and Sally Jeanrenaud ISBN: 9781844076369
Story | 25 Sep, 2008
The nature of drylands: Diverse ecosystems, diverse solutions
This magazine features over 30 articles on drylands from IUCN Members and Commission experts around the world. It illustrates the diversity of the drylands and dryland issues and provides an insight into the far-reaching work of IUCN’s membership in dryland areas of the world.
Story | 24 Sep, 2008
Managing Seagrasses for Resilience to Climate Change
Managing Seagrasses for Resilience to Climate Change
Story | 17 Sep, 2008
arborvitae special issue - Learning from Landscapes
Learning from Landscapes
This arborvitae special reviews current best practice assessing landscape values based upon on-the-ground experiences in tropical developing countries.
Story | 16 Sep, 2008
Agriculture and Productivity – conservation imperatives
Food and fuel: Prices matter more than ever – and the stakes are very high. When you ship 1kg of beef around the world, you’re actually shipping about 16,000 litres of water. Feature: Global demand for land to produce food, fuel…Story | 06 Aug, 2008
Rights-based approaches to forest conservation
News: Liberia’s forest exploitation over the last half-century has ridden roughshod over customary property rights. Perspective: The urban public generally view forest conservation as an unquestionably ‘good thing’ akin to apple pie,…Story | 24 Jul, 2008
Agricultural Ecosystems - Facts and Trends
Understanding agriculture’s dilemma between food security and conservation – new publication Agriculture is suffering from a growing dilemma: it needs to feed a fast growing world population, and conserve biodiversity and manage natural resources of an increasingly depleted planet. …
Story | 06 Jul, 2008
Climate Change and Biodiversity in the European Union Overseas Entities
This background paper, produced by IUCN in collaboration with ONERC, offers for the first time a comparative analysis of the 28 overseas entities of the European Union. The European Union overseas entities are particularly vulnerable to climate change effects. Mostly tropical islands, they are…