Estrategia mundial para la conservación
Author: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 2880321042
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The Future of Sustainability
Author: Marco Keiner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-09-09
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1402049080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a broad discussion on sustainable development, rethinking and improving its effectiveness as a paradigm of today and tomorrow. Outstanding visionary thinkers and scientists offer their timely assessment on the future prospects of mankind: In what direction are we heading? How can the world become more just and equitable, and how can future development be sustained to adequately address economic, social, and – perhaps most important – environmental issues?
Peatlands and Climate Change
Author: Maria Strack
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe International Peat Society IPS established a joint IPS Working Group on Peatlands and Climate Change in the end of the year 2005. The Working Group's task was to compile information into a summary of available knowledge to help the IPS and other actors to understand the role of peatlands and peat within the current context of global climate change.
The Future of IUCN - The World Conservation Union
Author: Martin W. Holdgate
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9782831701400
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Author: Keith A. Wheeler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2000-06-30
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780306464201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illustrates how sustainability, information technologies, and envisioning the future can be effectively woven into an integrated educational experience. By understanding what it takes to build a sustainable community, students will develop the skills needed to engage successfully in a sustainable society. Using the real world as their classroom, they will participate in gathering and analyzing data, clarifying values, listening, speaking, thinking creatively, and making decisions about their community.
Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories
Author: Nigel Dudley
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 2831710863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIUCN's Protected Areas Management Categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives, are today accepted as the benchmark for defining, recording, and classifying protected areas. They are recognized by international bodies such as the United Nations as well as many national governments. As a result, they are increasingly being incorporated into government legislation. These guidelines provide as much clarity as possible regarding the meaning and application of the Categories. They describe the definition of the Categories and discuss application in particular biomes and management approaches.
Biocultural Diversity Conservation
Author: Luisa Maffi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-09-10
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1136544259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe field of biocultural diversity is emerging as a dynamic, integrative approach to understanding the links between nature and culture and the interrelationships between humans and the environment at scales from the global to the local. Its multifaceted contributions have ranged from theoretical elaborations, to mappings of the overlapping distributions of biological and cultural diversity, to the development of indicators as tools to measure, assess, and monitor the state and trends of biocultural diversity, to on-the-ground implementation in field projects. This book is a unique compendium and analysis of projects from all around the world that take an integrated biocultural approach to sustaining cultures and biodiversity. The 45 projects reviewed exemplify a new focus in conservation: this is based on the emerging realization that protecting and restoring biodiversity and maintaining and revitalizing cultural diversity and cultural vitality are intimately, indeed inextricably, interrelated. Published with Terralingua and IUCN
Economics and Biological Diversity
Author: Jeffrey A. McNeely
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9782880329648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomics and biological diversity; Vallues and benefits of biological diversity; Economic incentives: what they are and how they can be used to promote conservation of biological diversity; The use of economic incentives to promote conservation of biological resources at the community level; The use of incentives at the national level; International aspects of incentives systems; Mechanisms for funding incentives packages; Guidelines for using incentives to conserve biological diversity; Case studies: Perverse economic incentives; Economic incentives at the community level; The use of incentives at the national and international levels.
The Economic Value of Biodiversity
Author: David Pearce
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1134165226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiodiversity loss is one of the major resource problems facing the world, and the policy options available are restricted by inappropriate economic tools which fail to capture the value of species and their variety. This study describes in non-technical terms how cost-benefit analysis techniques can be applied to species and species loss, and how they provide a measure of the efficiency of conservation measures. Only when conservation can be shown to pass such a basic economic test, the authors claim, will it be incorporated into policies.;David Pearce has also written Blueprint for a Green Economy.
Global Biodiversity Strategy
Author: World Resources Institute
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nature and value of biodiversity; Losses of biodiversity and their causes; The strategy for biodiversity conservation; Establishing a national policy framework for biodiversity conservation; Creating an international policy environmental that supports national biodiversity conservation; Creating conditions and incentives for local biodiversity conservation; Managing biodiversity throught the human environment; Strengthening protected areas; Conservings species, populations and genetic diversity; Exoanding human capacity to conserve biodiversity.
