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  Transboundary areas in Southern Africa: meeting the needs of conservation or development?

  Digital Library of the Commons, 2002

  Southern Africa’s natural resource management areas are becoming ‘transboundary’. Terminology is becoming both complex and confusing yet conservation-dominant.
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  Maximizing conservation in Protected Areas: guidelines for gender consideration

  Gender and Environment /Genero y ambiente, 2003

  Women’s and men’s relationships with the environment in protected areas (PAs) and their buffer zones, in the context of their respective gender roles, are crucial for the very survival of these natural habitats.
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  Transboundary conservation: the politics of ecological integrity in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park

  Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003

  Recent years have witnessed the emergence of an ostensibly surprising coalition of interests around the notion of Transboundary Natural Resource Management (TBNRM) in Southern Africa.
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  A critique of transboundary natural resource management in Southern Africa

  World Conservation Union Regional Office for Southern Africa, 2002

  The meteoric rise of transboundary approaches is due to several factors, including the need to better manage shared resources; the drive for economic growth through regional integration and development; the need to promote peace and security; and more external factors such as globalization and the agendas of international donors and organizations.
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  Running pure: the importance of forest protected areas to drinking water

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003

  This report presents arguments for the potential role of protected areas in helping to maintain water supply to major cities. It demonstrates that water provides a powerful argument for protection.
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  Parks beyond Parks: Genuine community-based wildlife eco-tourism or just another loss of land for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya?

  Drylands Programme, IIED, 2002

  This paper provides an analysis of the Kenyan ‘Parks beyond parks’ programme which attempts to introduce a community based social component to their parks management policies by allowing locals to establish eco-tourism projects adjacent to parks.
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  Recreational scuba diving in Caribbean Marine Protected Areas: do the users pay?

  International Coral Reef Action Network, 2003

  There are more than 200 marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Caribbean and Central America that contain coral reefs and are therefore theoretically attractive to scuba divers. This study surveyed one fifth of dive operators in 30 countries for their use of MPAs.
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  The fishery effects of marine reserves and fishery closures

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2002

  Marine reserves, areas permanently closed to all fishing, are frequently proposed as a tool for managing fisheries. Fishery benefits claimed for reserves include increases in spawning stock size, animal body size, and reproductive output of exploited species.
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  Indigenous and traditional peoples and protected areas: principles, guidelines and case studies

  World Commission on Protected Areas, 2000

  This book is divided into two sections: the first discusses principles and guidelines for indigenous/traditional peoples and protected areas and the second provides case studies.The guidelines are based on the following recognition:protected areas will survive only if they are seen to be of value, in the widest sense, to the nation as a whole and to local people in particularthe rig
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  Marine reserves: a tool for ecosystem management and conservation

  Pew Oceans Commission, 2002

  This paper considers the variety of threats and competition for use faced by the ocean ecosystems of the U.S. The author argues that seemingly separate threats such as pollution and fishing are linked in that both affect entire marine ecosystems.

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