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UNEP
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| Topics: | Benefits and values,Indigenous |
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The economics of ecosystems and Biodiversity TEEB for National and International Policy Makers
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| Short guide |
A Quick Guide for Protected Area Practitioners
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Summary of species on the 2008 IUCN Red List
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IUCN publication 2010
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CBD Publication
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Comprehensive guide  |
CBD Publication
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CBD Protected Areas website
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E-learning curricula
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LifeWeb publication
| Themes: | PoWPA Implementation,3.2 Protected area capacity |
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UNEP/CBD/COP10/27 Annex
| Themes: | PoWPA Implementation |
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Comprehensive guide  |
An action guide to implementing the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas
| Themes: | PoWPA Implementation |
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The contribution of protected areas to human health. A research report by WWF and Equilibrium Research
| Themes: | 1.5 Protected area threats and restoration |
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The importance of forest protected areas to drinking water. A research report by the World Bank / WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use
| Themes: | 3.5 Education and awareness,1.5 Protected area threats and restoration,4.4 Research |
| Topics: | Environmental impact assessment,Freshwater,Research |
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Brochure  |
CBD Publication
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| Topics: | Benefits and values,Policy environment,Restoration,Sustainable use |
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A Publication of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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Report  |
Protected areas and hazard mitigation
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| Topics: | Benefits and values,Climate change,Fire,Resilience and adaptation planning,Restoration |
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Report  |
Using protected areas to secure crop genetic diversity
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| Topics: | Benefits and values,Health |
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Report  |
Linking faiths and protected areas to support biodiversity conservation
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| Topics: | Benefits and values,Indigenous,Tourism |
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Protected areas (PAs) dominate conservation efforts. They will probably play a role in future climate policies too, as global payments may reward local reductions of loss of natural land cover. We estimate the impact of PAs on natural land cover within each of 147 countries by comparing outcomes inside PAs with outcomes outside. We use ‘matching’ (or ‘apples to apples’) for land characteristics to control for the fact that PAs very often are non-randomly distributed across their national landscapes. Protection tends towards land that, if unprotected, is less likely than average to be cleared. For 75 per cent of countries, we find protection does reduce conversion of natural land cover. However, for approximately 80 per cent of countries, our global results also confirm (following smaller-scale studies) that controlling for land characteristics reduces estimated impact by half or more. This shows the importance of controlling for at least a few key land characteristics. Further, we show that impacts vary considerably within a country (i.e. across a landscape): protection achieves less on lands far from roads, far from cities and on steeper slopes. Thus, while planners are, of course, constrained by other conservation priorities and costs,they could target higher impacts to earn more global payments for reduced deforestation.
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| Topics: | Conservation planning |
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Workshop Report:
Tropical forests contain more than half of all terrestrial life on
Earth. [ 1 ] The biodiversity and ecosystem services these forests
support are economically valued in the order of trillions of
dollars annually [ 2 ] and underpin climate, food, energy, water,
health and livelihood security for millions of people across the
globe.
| Themes: | 3.4 Financial sustainability and business planning |
| Topics: | Financing |
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Protected areas are the dominant approach to protecting biodiversity
and the supply of ecosystem services. Because these protected areas are often placed in regions with widespread poverty and because they can limit agricultural development and exploitation of natural resources, concerns have been raised about their potential to create or reinforce poverty traps.
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| Topics: | Benefits and values |
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As global efforts to protect ecosystems expand, the socioeconomic
impact of protected areas on neighboring human communities
continues to be a source of intense debate. The debate persists
because previous studies do not directly measure socioeconomic
outcomes and do not use appropriate comparison groups to account
for potential confounders. We illustrate an approach using comprehensive
national datasets and quasi-experimental matching methods.
We estimate impacts of protected area systems on poverty in
Costa Rica and Thailand and find that although communities near
protected areas are indeed substantially poorer than national averages,
an analysis based on comparison with appropriate controls
does not support the hypothesis that these differences can be
attributed to protected areas. In contrast, the results indicate that
the net impact of ecosystem protection was to alleviate poverty.
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This paper presents new evidence about the local effects of strictly
protected areas in Thailand,combining data on socioeconomic outcomes from a poverty mapping study with satellite - based estimates of forest cover.
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| Topics: | Benefits and values,Health |
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This study investigates the extent to which projects - which, according to the WWF,
conserve biological diversity - can be run in an economically profitable way, so that they
attract the necessary capital from private investors (‘sustainable investments’). The result
is an innovative entrepreneurial concept for preserving biological diversity that invests in
privately run, profit-orientated nature conservation projects worldwide.
| Themes: | 3.4 Financial sustainability and business planning |
| Topics: | Financing,Sustainable finance |
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