Story | 30 Oct, 2008
Securing protected areas in the face of global change : issues and strategies
Barber, Charles Victor, ed. ; Miller, Kenton R., ed. ; Boness, Melissa, ed.
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas
Story | 28 Oct, 2008
Economic constraints to the management of marine protected areas
Story | 28 Oct, 2008
Parks and progress : protected areas and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Valerie Barzettti
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…
Story | 28 Oct, 2008
Protected area economics and policy : linking conservation and sustainable development
These papers seek to show how environmental economics can be brought in to assist with the design and management of protected areas.
Story | 27 Oct, 2008
Mediterranean Reflections 2007
You will see in this report that IUCN-Med had another busy and fulfilling year working closely with our IUCN partners in the Mediterranean, members, Councillors, Commission members and National Committees, learning from them, sharing our knowledge and doing our utmost to communicate better with…
Story | 23 Oct, 2008
High Seas Gems: Hidden Treasures of Our Blue Earth
The largest, least-protected places on our blue planet are found in the high seas - the open ocean and deep seabed that lie seaward of individual nations’ jurisdictions. Extending from the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica to most of the Indian, Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans…
Story | 23 Oct, 2008
New Impetus for the High Seas following IUCN World Conservation Congress
IUCN members at the World Conservation Congress have called for strong action to protect high seas biodiversity and to regulate the human activities impacting it. This signals a growing awareness of the vital role oceans play in sustaining life on our planet and alarm at the multiplying threats…
Story | 15 Oct, 2008
Edited by Ameer Abdulla, PhD and Olof Linden, PhD