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  Participatory 3-dimensional modelling: guiding principles and applications

  Participatory Avenues : Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development, 2002

  This Publication (and enclosed multimedia resource kit) is intended to assist researchers, project managers, Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) and GIS practitioners in enhancing the capacities of marginalized, isolated, and frequently natural resource-dependent communities to deal with spatial data and to communicate with the “outside world” on a peer to peer basis.The resource book prov
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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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  Community based fire management, land tenure and conflict: insights from Sumatra

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2001

  In response to the many highly damaging fires that have occurred in Indonesia, destroying large tracts of forest and causing high levels of damaging carbon emissions, community based management is often recommended as the answer to fire control.Traditional knowledge of fire and its management can be effective in managing both forests and fires, but, this paper argues, very little evaluation of
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  Fire use, peatland transformation and local livelihoods

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2001

  The biodiversity and carbon sequestration value of tropical peatlands is damaged by logging, burning, drainage and other activities. In many cases this may also damage local livelihood benefits such as fisheries support.
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  Co-management of natural resources: organizing, negotiating and learning-by-doing

  World Conservation Union, 2000

  A practical manual for natural-resource managers interested in negotiating multi-party agreements and institutions, and in learning by doing.
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  Zoning—lessons from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

  International Coral Reef Initiative, 2002

  Over the last 25 years a range of management ‘tools’, including zoning plans, permits, education, and more recently management plans, have been applied to regulate access and to control and mitigate impacts associated with human use of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park GBRMP.A multiple-use zoning approach provides high levels of protection for speci c areas whilst allowing reasonable uses, inc
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  Participatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity

  Environmental Change Institute, 2002

  The site contains a number of documents relating to an e-conference and follow up workshop on participatory biodiversity assessment.The author defines the concept as follows: 'participatory monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity involves non-scientists in observing, measuring or assessing biodiversity or its components.
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  International ocean governance: using international law and organizations to manage marine resources sustainably

  World Conservation Union, 2001

  This comprehensive document provides an overview of the array of international conventions and organizations governing ocean use.In the context of an increasing focus on regional and large scale oceans management, the book discusses the legal context of cross-boundary management and ways of targeting international legal instruments to solve specific oceans problems.
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  Manual on participatory 3-D modeling for natural resource management: essentials of protected area management in the Philippines

  Participatory Avenues : Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development, 2000

  The manual is intended to assist Participatory Learning and Action practitioners, non-governmental and other civil organizations, society or scientific institutions and others who would find "community-based 3-D modeling" a powerful tool enabling local stakeholders to express their views and assert their rights.The manual's content and format are designed for practitioners who would like to pla
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  Integration of biodiversity into national fishery sectors

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002

  This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in compliance with Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity.The study consists of the following:a primer for planners on biodi

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