Protected Areas

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There is no shortage of tools and resources to help in the implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas, but they are often dispersed and difficult to find in one place. This site enables you to quickly find and browse for tools by searching each of the different goals of the Programme of Work, searching specific topics and types of tools and resources, and by searching by language and geography. This database of tools and resources is still incomplete – please consider contributing and sharing your resources, including guidance materials, case studies, websites and more.

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Brochure
Key messages for achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11
Themes:PoWPA Implementation
11/14/2012
Short guide
A practical guide for governments for integrating the economic, social and cultural value of ecosystems into national biodiversity plans.
Themes:PoWPA Implementation
Topics:PoWPA strategic action plan
11/14/2012
Report
This report estimates the cost of implementing Target 11, including the costs of a) creating new protected areas; b) establishing connectivity corridors; c) effectively managing new and existing protected areas; d) strengthening protected area enabling environments and sustainable finance; and e) conducting key protected area assessments.
Themes:3.4 Financial sustainability and business planning
Topics:Financing
10/3/2012
Report
This paper outlines proposals from IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) on new strategies and opportunities arising from the review of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) 10th Conference of Parties (COP) in Nagoya, Japan in 2010.
6/4/2012
Short guide
Culture—that totality of beliefs that humans use to shape their daily lives, relationships, behaviors, and activities, and ultimately their laws and policies—shapes not only human communities but, through the effects of human behavior, the non-human communities of the environment around them as well.
Topics:Tourism
5/16/2012
Article
Governance  is  about  power,  relationships, responsibility  and  accountability.  It  is  about who  has  influence,  who  decides,  and  how decision-­makers  are  held  accountable.
Themes:2.1 Equity and benefit sharing,2.2 Participation of indigenous and local communities
Topics:Governance,Indigenous
5/9/2012
Short guide
Target 11: By 2020, at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water areas and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well-connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, and integrated into the wider landscape and seascape.
Themes:PoWPA Implementation
Topics:PoWPA strategic action plan,Targets and indicators
5/8/2012
Report
A SYNTHESIS OF THE APPROACH, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF TEEB
Themes:3.4 Financial sustainability and business planning,2.1 Equity and benefit sharing,3.1 Enabling policy and legal environment
Topics:Benefits and values,Cost benefit assessment
4/12/2012
Report
The Global Study into management effectiveness evaluation was conducted between late 2005 and 2010. In cooperation with many people across the world, we aimed to strengthen the management of protected areas by compiling the existing work on management effectiveness evaluation, reviewing methodologies, finding patterns and common themes in evaluation results, and investigating the most important factors leading to effective management.
Themes:1.4 Management planning and climate change adaptation
Topics:Adaptive management,Management effectiveness,Management planning
2/24/2012
Website
Protectedplanet.net is the new face of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), a joint initiative between IUCN and UNEP-WCMC. Its humble beginnings started 30 years ago as a basic global list of national parks and has evolved into the only global, spatially referenced information source on parks and protected areas . We have created protectedplanet.net not only to showcase this wealth of information but also give tools to willing ‘citizen scientists’ who can feed their knowledge about protected areas into the WDPA.
2/20/2012
UNEP
Topics:Benefits and values,Indigenous
11/23/2011
Report
The economics of ecosystems and Biodiversity TEEB for National and International Policy Makers
11/4/2011
Short guide
A Quick Guide for Protected Area Practitioners
Topics:Marine
11/4/2011
Article
Summary of species on the 2008 IUCN Red List
11/4/2011
Report
IUCN publication 2010
11/4/2011
Report
CBD Publication
11/4/2011
Comprehensive guide
CBD Publication
11/4/2011
Website
CBD Protected Areas website
11/4/2011
E-learning curricula
11/4/2011
Brochure
LifeWeb publication
Themes:PoWPA Implementation,3.2 Protected area capacity
11/4/2011
Report
UNEP/CBD/COP10/27 Annex
Themes:PoWPA Implementation
11/4/2011
Comprehensive guide
An action guide to implementing the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas
Themes:PoWPA Implementation
11/4/2011
Report
The contribution of protected areas to human health. A research report by WWF and Equilibrium Research
Themes:1.5 Protected area threats and restoration
11/4/2011
Report
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
11/4/2011
Brochure
CBD Publication
Topics:Benefits and values,Policy environment,Restoration,Sustainable use
11/4/2011
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