"Communicating Protected Areas" - This publication is a compilation of papers on education and communication presented to the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa (8-17 September 2003).

Here below you can download chapters as found in the publication.

• Introduction (Contents, Foreword and Preface)

Strategic communication to build support for protected areas:
principles, lessons and recommendations

• Chapter 1- Recommendations on the role and impact of education and communication for protected areas management in Latin America
• Chapter 2- How to manage change? How to manage people? Skills and knowledge for effectiveness in communicating protected areas and biodiversity values by Frits Hesselink
• Chapter 3- Promoting sustainable development through strategic communication by Paolo Mefalopulos and Lucia Grenna
• Chapter 4- The GreenCOM Project: using Strategic Participatory Communications for protected areas by Roberta Hilbrunner
• Chapter 5- Understanding local reactions to protected areas by Marc Stern

• Chapter 6- Building support for and beyond protected areas in the Philippines: a Haribon's journey of transformations by Margarita Lavides, Anabelle Plantilla, Neil Aldrin Mallari, Blas Tabaranza jr., Belinda de la Paz and Cristo Marie Nozawa
  
  Governmental agencies using communication to build support for protected areas

• Chapter 7- Engaging Canadians: building professional communications in Parks Canada by Dawn Bronson
• Chapter 8- Strategic communication planning for a national system of protected areas, Mexico, by Rosa Maria Vidal, Lucia Grenna and Daniel Calabrese.
• Chapter 9- Strategic communication adn visual identity in the National Commission for Natural Protected Areas (CONANP), Mexico, by Marco Sanchez Lira.
• Chapter 10- Building support for protected areas: the case of the Butrint National Park, Albania by Alex Koutsouris, Emanuele Santi and Auron Tare.
• Chapter 11- The Projeto Doces Matas and communication by Tomas Inhetvin, Marcos Antonio Reis Araujo, Leda Luz and Infaide Patricia do Espirito Santo
• Chapter 12 - Benefits beyond borders: the case of Madikwe Game Park by Solly Mosidi
• Chapter 13- The use of traditional knowledge in the South African National Parks' Imbewu Youth Programme: planting a seed of environmental awareness by Ishmael Makwaeba

• Chapter 14- Environmental education and awareness at the National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of Zimbabwe by Soul Shava and Anthony Mapaura
  
  NGOs using communication to build support for protected areas

• Chapter 15- Bridges for conservation: experience with community participation in an awareness campaign around four protected areas in Lebanon by Andrea Schwethelm Munla
• Chapter 16- Using communication to involve local communities and local governments in protected area management: two related cases from northeast Luzon, Philippines by Merlijn van Weerd, Gwen van Boven, Jan van der Ploeg.
• Chapter 17- Education and communication for conservation: co-management of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve, Mexico by Martha Isabel "Pati" Ruiz Corzo.
• Chapter 18- Protected area communication, education and public awareness: the Every River Has Its People project, Botswana, by Tracy Molefi.
• Chapter 19- The process of local ownership of the Tingo Maria National Park, Huánuco, Perú, by Patricia Fernández-Dávila.
• Chapter 20- Bringingn positive changes in the protected areas of Nepal through communication and education by Chandra Gurung and Neelima Shrestha

• Chapter 21- Developing support for protected areas through a conservation and education centre: India case study by Prashant Mahajan
  
  Looking to the future: professionalizing protected area communication

• Chapter 22- Beyond training: protected area organizations as learning organizations. Developing capacity to change towards management in partnership by Frits Hesselink, Eddie Idle and Gwen van Boven.
• Chapter 23- Optimizing the use of research in order to consolidate communication planning for protected areas by Marco Encalada.
• Chapter 24- Evaluating facilities and resources for environmental education and interpretation: criteria and indicators by Jaume Sureda Negra, Miguel Oliver Trobat and Margalida Castells Valdivieso.
• Chapter 25- Strategic intentions: using communication and education to support biodiversity conservation and protected areas by Haroldo Castro, Robin Abadia and Shannon Quesada.
• Chapter 26- Promoting Protection Through Pride by Rafael Manzanero.
• Chapter 27- Mass media and engaging journalists: supporting biodiversity conservation by Haroldo Castro and Jim Wyss.
• Chapter 28- Shared principles: heritage interpretation promoting sustainable development by Deane Adams.
• Chapter 29- Young conservationists and the hfuture of protected areas worldwide by Lisbet Kugler.

• Chapter 30- Recommendation 5.32 of the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress: strategic agenda for communication, education and public awareness for protected areas.
  
  Conclusion

• Chapter 31- Concluding thoughts on communicating protected areas.
• Chapter 32- "A Thirsty Place": drama from the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress by Tamara Guhrs.
  
  Biographical summaries