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The Urban Imperative
Urban Outreach Strategies for Protected Areas Agencies

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Reflections: Nature for people and people for nature

Introduction
  The Congress, sponsors and contributors
Part 1: Cities depend on protected areas
  The Role of forest protected areas in supplying drinking water to the worlds biggest cities
  Some benefits of protected areas in supplying drinking water to the world's biggest cities
 

Some benefits of protected areas for urban communities: A view from Sydney

  Resource economics as a tool for open space planning in Durban, South Africa
Part 2: Protected Areas depend on cities
  Raising the priority of urban areas in protected area systems in Brazil and beyond
  A city defends its natural heritage: Hong Kong's Country and Marine Parks
 

California cities and the protection and restoration of Yosemite National Park

  Community-driven stewardship of and Australian government protected area
Part 3: Strategies for linking cities and protected areas
  Connecting with nature in a capital city: The London Biodiversity Strategy
  Paris-Nature: An innovative urban ecology program
  The City of Cape Town's Biodiversity Strategy
  Biodiversity conservation as a social bridge in the urban context: Cape Town's sense of the "Urban Imperative" to protect its biodiversity and empower its people
  Mosaic: Building links between ethnic communities and national parks in the United Kingdom
  A conservation agency creates inner-city "natural parks" in Los Angeles
  "Healthy Parks, Healthy People" and other social capital initiatives of Parks Victoria, Australia
  Kids for Tigers:The Sanctuary Asia Tiger Programme
 

Vision beyond mandate: Creating farmland protected areas in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico

Part 4: Making partnerships work
  Groundwork: An innovative British environmental partnership organzation
  Chicago Wilderness: A collaborative model for urban conservation
  Building urban constituencies for nature conservation: The Golden Gate experience
  Conservation NGOs as leaders in protecting urban nature: the urban reserves project of Aves Argentinas
  Nature education in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan: the important role of volunteers
Part 5: Evaluation
  How to reach urban communities: Lessons learned from museum evaluation
Appendix: World Parks Congress Recommendation

 

 

 

 

 
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