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Tourism and Protected Areas
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002The six papers in this volume cover topic areas relevant to park managers dealing with visitor management.DocumentPreparing marine protected areas to survive global change: additional guidelines to address coral bleaching
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2001This paper describes guidelines for marine protected area (MPA) design and management that take into account the significant global problem of coral bleaching.DocumentFinancing protected areas: guidelines for protected area managers
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2000This document is intended as a practical guide to assist protected area managers in identifying and securing appropriate and sustainable finance.The guidelines explore financing options for protected areas and provide advice and information on sustainable financing.DocumentIndigenous and local communities and protected areas: rethinking the relationship
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002This interview attempts to illustrate the opportunities and obstacles involved in forging a new alliance between communities and conservation. The debate covers practical initiatives and statements of inalienable rights, emerging concepts and their political consequences, the legitimacy/legality dichotomy and the increasing number of social actors involved in protected area management.DocumentPARKS : the international journal for protected area managers
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002PARKS is published three times a year by the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of IUCN.DocumentSustainable tourism in protected areas: guidelines for planning and management
World Commission on Protected Areas, 2002This is a comprehensive book detailing the state of the art in both the theory and practice of managing tourism in Protected Areas (PAs).DocumentWomen and MPAs: how gender affects planning and management
Marine Protected Area News, 2002This 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.DocumentThe World Bank and the environment in the Caspian: a case study of the Kolkheti National Park
BankWatch, 2002This report focuses on the construction of an oil terminal and related infrastructure inside one of Georgia’s national parks. The World Bank has a positive environmental objective in helping to finance the establishment of the Kolkheti National Park but this, the authors claim, is being undermined by the private development of the Kulevi Oil Terminal.DocumentEffectiveness of Parks in Protecting Tropical Biodiversity
Komodo National Park, Indonesia, 2001This report assesses the impacts of anthropogenic threats on 93 protected areas in 22 tropical countries to test the hypothesis that parks are an effective means to protect tropical biodiversity. Each park tested was over 5 years old and greater than 5,000 hectares.