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  Towards an effective Protected Areas Network in Africa: experience in assessing protected area management effectiveness and future proposals

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This report summarises contemporary African experience with assessment of management effectiveness, drawing on a range of case studies (in South Africa, Congo Basin, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Central Africa), including outputs from a workshop organised by WWF and the World Bank in Kribi, Cameroon in June 2002 and subsequent assessments.
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  Indigenous and local communities and protected areas guidelines: guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  This guide explores the protected area approaches and models that approach conservation as fully compatible with human communities.
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  Natural resource conflict management case studies: an analysis of power, participation and protected areas

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report presents a collection of case studies which focus on processes of conflict management and resolution and the different ways and means that conflicts are addressed.
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  Building effective co-management systems for decentralized protected areas management in Indonesia: Bunaken National Park case study

  International Resources Group, 2004

  This report details recent progress towards the effective decentralised co-management of Bunaken National Park, Indonesia. Bunaken National Park is home to some of the richest marine biodiversity in the world, with over 1000 species of coral reef fish from 175 different families.The report consists of seven chapters.
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  Internalising global externalities from biodiversity: protected areas and multilateral mechanisms of transfer

  Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2004

  This paper provides an overview on international agreements on protected areas, and the associated transfer mechanisms both from a theoretical and an empirical viewpoint. The paper examines whether the existing regime of multilateral mechanisms of transfer and the parallel bilateral transfers works to effectively preserve biodiversity at the global scale.
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  Conservation of wildlife: a bio-economic model of a wildlife reserve under the pressure of habitat destruction and harvesting outside the reserve

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  It is commonly perceived that biodiversity is threatened by many factors of which destruction and reduction of habitats is considered most the important for terrestrial species. This paper argues that, in order to counteract these threats, reserves should be established with restrictions on land-use and exploitation.
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  Conservation management and intergovernmental relations: the case of South African national and selected provincial protected areas

  Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa, 2002

  This article examines the government in stitutions in place in South Africa for managing national and provincial parks, the structures governing relations between them, and their recent history; and identifies necessary changes to the institutional environment.
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  Biodiversity access and benefit-sharing policies for protected areas

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2003

  Aimed at protected area managers and policy makers this report provides and introduction to the complex and rapidly evolving issues of access and benefit sharing (ABS) in biodiversity conservation and considers the role and value of bioprospecting more generally.It concludes with a series of recommendations intended to help protected area managers and policy makers to draft protected area ABS p
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  Transfrontier ecosystems and internationally adjoining protected areas

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1999

  This paper contains an updated Global List of Adjoining Protected Areas (as of early 1999), referred to earlier as “transfrontier protected areas complexes”.
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  Review and analysis of specific Transboundary Natural Resource Management initiatives in the Southern African Region

  World Conservation Union Regional Office for Southern Africa, 2001

  The authors of this paper intend to help clarify understanding of trans-boundary natural resource management (TBNRM) in southern Africa.

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