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Red Lists  

2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
A Global Species Assessment
Edited by Jonathan E.M. Baillie, Craig Hilton-Taylor and Simon N. Stuart
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The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Fish Endemic to the Mediterranean Basin
Compiled and edited by Kevin G. Smith and William R.T. Darwall
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Protected Areas  

The Protected Landscape Approach
Linking Nature, Culture and Community
Edited by Jessica Brown, Nora Mitchell and Michael Beresford
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Benefits Beyond Boundaries
Proceedings of the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress – Durban, South Africa, 8–17 September 2003
Compiled and edited by Tim Jones
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Bénéfices par delà les frontières
Procès-verbaux du Ve Congrès mondial sur les parcs de l’UICN

Compilé et édité par Tim Jones
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Beneficios más allá de las fronteras
Actas del V Congreso Mundial de Parques de la UICN

Compilado y editado por Tim Jones
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Securing Protected Areas In the Face of Global Change
Issues and Strategies
Edited by Charles Victor Barber, Kenton R. Miller and Melissa Boness
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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 1
National System Planning for Protected Areas
Adrian G. Davey. Series editor: Adrian Phillips
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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 2
Economic Values of Protected Areas
Guidelines for Protected Area Managers
Prepared by the Economic Benefits of Protected Areas Task Force, World Commission on Protected Areas and the IUCN Economics Service Unit. Series editor: Adrian Phillips
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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 3
Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas
Edited and coordinated by Graeme Kelleher.
Series editor: Adrian Phillips

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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 4
Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas
Principles, Guidelines and Case Studies
Edited and co-ordinated by Javier Beltrán.
Series Editor: Adrian Phillips

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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 4
Pueblos Indígenas y Tradicionales y Áreas Protegidas
Principios, Directrices y Casos de Estudio

Editado y coordinado por Javier Beltrán
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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 5
Financing Protected Areas
Guidelines for Protected Area Managers
Prepared by the Economic Benefits of Protected Areas Task Force, World Commission on Protected Areas and the IUCN Economics Service Unit.
Series Editor: Adrian Phillips

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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 6
Evaluating Effectiveness
A Framework for Assessing Management of Protected Areas
Prepared by Marc Hockings, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Management Effectiveness Task Force, with Sue Stolton and Nigel Dudley, WWF/IUCN Forest Innovations Project. Series Editor: Adrian Phillips        Go to catalogue listing

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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 7
Transboundary Protected Areas for Peace and Co-operation
Trevor Sandwith, Clare Shine, Lawrence Hamilton and David Sheppard
Series editor: Adrian Phillips
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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No.8
Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas
Guidelines for Planning and Management
Paul F.J. Eagles, Stephen F. McCool and Christopher D. Haynes, Adrian Phillips, Series Editor
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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No.9
Management Guidelines for IUCN Category V Protected Areas
Protected Landscapes/Seascapes
Author and Series Editor Adrian Phillips
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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 10
Guidelines for Management Planning of Protected Areas
Lee Thomas and Julie Duff
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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 11
Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Ashish Kothari and Gonzalo Oviedo
Series Editor: Adrian Phillips

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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 12
Forests and Protected Areas: Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories
Nigel Dudley and Adrian Phillips
Series Editor: Adrian Phillips

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Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 13
Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas:
A global review of challenges and options

Lucy Emerton, Joshua Bishop and Lee Thomas
Series Editor: Peter Valentine
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Friends for Life: New partners in support of protected areas
Edited by Jeffrey A. McNeely
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Ecosystem Management  

Depend on Nature
Ecosystem Services supporting Human Livelihoods

Sue Mainka, Jeff McNeely and Bill Jackson
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Extractive Industries in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones
Environmental Planning and Management
Edited by Joachim Gratzfeld
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Environmental Policy and Law  

IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 46
An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Ruth Mackenzie et al.
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IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 46
Guide explicatif du Protocole de Cartagena sur la prévention des risques biotechnologiques

Ruth Mackenzie et al.
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IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 46
Guía Explicativa del Protocolo de Cartagena sobre Seguridad de la Biotecnología

Ruth Mackenzie et. al.
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IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 51
Water as a Human Right?

John Scanlon, Angela Cassar and Noémi Nemes
Ruth Mackenzie et. al.
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IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 57
Explanatory Guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Gerald Moore and Witold Tymowski
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Genetically Modified Organisms and Biosafety
A background paper for decision- makers and others to assist in consideration of GMO issues
Tomme Young
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Organismes génétiquement modifiés et sécurité biologique
Document d’information sur les questions liées aux OGM à l’intention des décideurs et d’autres acteurs

Tomme Young
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Organismos genéticamente modificados y bioseguridad
Un documento de antecedentes destinado a responsables de la toma de decisiones y otros interesados para ayudarles en la consideración de los asuntos relativos a los OGM

Tomme Young
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Can Protected Areas contribute to Poverty Reduction?
Opportunities and Limitations
Lea M. Scherl, Alison Wilson, Robert Wild, Jill Blockhus, Phil Franks, Jeffrey A. McNeely and Thomas O. McShane
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Poverty and Conservation
Landscapes, People and Power

R. J. Fisher, Stewart Maginnis, WJ. Jackson, Edmund Barrow and Sally Jeanrenaud
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Agriculture in the Lower Mekong Basin: Experience from the Critical Decade of 1966-1976
Willem van Liere and Jeffrey A. McNeely
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Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises
2002–2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans
Compiled by Randall Reeves, Brian D. Smith, Enrique A. Crespo and Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara and the IUCN/SSC Cetacean Specialist Group
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Microchiropteran Bats
Global Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (out of print)
Compiled by Anthony M. Hutson, Simon P. Mickleburgh and Paul A. Racey
IUCN/SSC Chiroptera Specialist Group

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Conservation and Development Interventions at the Wildlife/Livestock Interface
Implications for Wildlife, Livestock and Human Health
Edited and compiled by Steven A. Osofsky
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