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The area surrounding Mount Kangchenjunga in the eastern Himalayas is spread across four countries: Nepal, India, Bhutan, and China. It includes many protected areas—of particular interest to mountain overs—that are still unexplored. However, these protected areas are islands that are facing degradation through a number of activities, the latest of which is tourism. The pressures on...
The Albanian Alps are encountered in the most northern part of Albania and have very clear-cut boundaries representing the highest and most beautiful regions of this country. Regarding the physical and geographical viewpoint, the Albanian Alps border with the Drini valley (Fierzë, Vau i Dejës) in the south, the Tropoja basin in the east and northeast and the Mbishkodra plain in the...
The literature on protected areas has increasingly focused on the impacts of conservation initiatives on local people and the kinds of power relations linked to these areas. The relevance and importance of these questions is manifest in that the number of protected areas worldwide doubled during the decade prior to 2005. Globally, protected areas produce rapid changes in the livelihood...
This update lists the IUCN's Programme on Protected Areas (PPA) with the latest protected area and IUCN news.
This book is a collaborative effort among IUCN, WWF, CARE, and the World Bank to assess where we all agree on the key issues around poverty and protected areas. Recognising that most poverty is rural, as are most protected areas, a relationship between these two aspects of land use is an intimate one, though it is often ignored. But given the much higher profile now being given to poverty...
In recent years Australia has made progress in understanding its ecological diversity and advancing towards a more representative national system of protected areas. However, this has not stemmed a serious decline in Australia’s biodiversity. As a consequence, both environmental decision-makers and NGO advocates are searching for additional tools to encourage biodiversity conservation on...
Management effectiveness evaluation is defined as the assessment of how well protected areas are being managed – primarily the extent to which management is protecting values and achieving goals and objectives. The term management effectiveness reflects three main ‘themes’ in protected area management:
- design issues relating to both...
Every protected area, at any given time, has something valuable to offer to others. It is possible to take a snapshot of where each is at and learn from it. Lessons may be about a specific management activity, such as monitoring or zoning, or about an encompassing approach such as co-management. This book presents four such snapshots, which will be described and analysed in some depth in the...
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