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  PARKS : the international journal for protected area managers

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002

  PARKS is published three times a year by the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of IUCN.
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  Sustainable tourism in protected areas: guidelines for planning and management

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002

  This is a comprehensive book detailing the state of the art in both the theory and practice of managing tourism in Protected Areas (PAs).
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  Governing biodiversity: access to genetic resources and approaches to obtaining benefits from their use: the case of the Philippines

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2002

  This study explores both bilateral and multilateral approaches to access and benefit sharing (ABS) in the governance of biological resources.
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  Women and MPAs: how gender affects planning and management

  Marine Protected Area News, 2002

  This issue of the newsletter looks at issues of gender for MPAs. The main article states that decisionmaking on the use of coastal and marine resources is often principally based on the input of men.
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  World Conservation special issue: the species trade: CITES in the new millenium

  World Conservation Union, 2002

  This special issue of World Conservation magazine discusses the background to the CITES agreement and the IUCN position on it.The second paper in the issue discusses the need for the agreement and ways of making it more effective through legislation and enforcement.
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  Advancing sustainable resource management: using ecological footprint analysis for problem formulation, policy development, and communication

  Redefining Progress, 2001

  This paper is divided into three sections.
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  The human footprint and the last of the wild

  Wildlife Conservation Society, 2002

  This paper describes the methodology used to produce a map of the human footprint, that is human impact and resource use on Earth.The authors used four types of data as proxies for human influence:population densityland transformationaccessibilityelectrical power infrastructureThe authors used nine existing datasets of terrestrial human infrastructure and population,
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  Forest biodiversity at the ecosystem level: where do people fit in?

  Unasylva, FAO, 2002

  The author bases this paper on the premise that an ecosystem approach to the management of forests is most effective. In order to recommend how effective management may be achieved on the ground, he poses some key questions are people part of forest ecosystems? what are the impacts of human harvesting on forest ecosystems? how can forest ecosystems be managed so that they provid
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  Forest fire and biological diversity

  Unasylva, FAO, 2002

  Although a number of studies have taken place into the ecosystem effects of fires on forests, few have looked their biodiversity implications.The authors briefly outline ecosystem impacts of fires on a global, regional and local level.
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  Assessing the ecological footprint

  Environmental Assessment Institute / Institut for Miljøvurdering, Denmark, 2002

  This report sets out to assess the scientific validity of what it calls the WWF's 'doomsday prophecy', as outlined in the NGO's Living Planet Report 2002.

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