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Governance Publications


Conservation and Peoples Livelihood Rights

This study attempts to understand the:

* impacts of some of India’s conservation policies and programs on the livelihoods and livelihood rights of ecosystem-dependent communities,

* ongoing attempts to evolve alternative models that integrate conservation and livelihoods.

http://www.kalpavriksh.org/f1/f1.2/UNESCO%20CNL%20project%20final%20report.pdf/view

Gobernanza de los Sistemas Nacionales de Áreas Protegidas en los Andes Tropicales

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Parks Magazine, Volume 16 No 1

Community Conserved Areas

COMMUNITY CONSERVED AREAS (CCAs) have burst upon the global conservation scene in the first few years of the new millennium, and are the most exciting development since the concept of ‘protected areas’ came into vogue, over a century back.


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Can Protected Areas Contribute to Poverty Reduction?

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In Portugese PDF


Submission to the Review of the Indigenous Protected Areas Program 2006
Submited by Penny Figgis AO
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Friends for Life
New Partners in support of protected areas

Edited by Jeff McNeely
This book brings together the experience and wisdom of the leading thinkers and practitioners of protected area planning and management
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Gender makes the difference
IUCN Fact Sheet
 
Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Case Studies
Best Practice Protected Areas Guidelines No. 4.

It is sometimes assumed that protected areas must be in conflict with the rights and traditions of indigenous and other traditional peoples. However, the present document shows that there are processes to avoid conflicts between those peoples' rights and protected area objectives.
WWF/IUCN. Javier Beltrán

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Indigenous and Local Communites and Protected Areas Towards Equity and Enhanced Conservation
Best Practice Protected Areas Guidelines No.11.

An open and flexible guide to engaging indigenous peoples and local communities in protected area management. It includes clear concepts and concrete advice for policy at the national, landscape and site level, and ushers better recognition and protection of existing Community Conserved Areas – a marvellous world--wide conservation asset in great jeopardy today.
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Ashish Kothari & Gonzalo Oviedo

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PARKS Magazine, Volume 12 No 2:

Local Communities and Protected Areas

This issue of Parks aims to showcase the different roles that local communities are playing in protected areas, highlight some emerging issues and challenges, and advance the debate on the state of community involvement in conservation.
IUCN (2002) The inside cover should read"Cover: Pokot pastoralists - many of their best lands have been expropriated and made into reserved areas. Background: Mt Kilimanjaro, taken from Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Photos: Ed Barrow, IUCN-EARO."

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PARKS Magazine, Volume 11 No 2:

ICDPS: Working with Parks and People

This issue of PARKS is dedicated to the memory of Clive Marsh, biologist, friend and conservationist, who dedicated his life to conservation and helped to establish protected areas and ICDPs in Africa and South-East Asia
IUCN (2001)

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PARKS Magazine, Volume 8 No 1:

Population and Parks

A selection of case studies acknowledging the need to establish partnerships and encourage cooperation with neighbors and other stakeholders, promote stewardship, and other instruments which support protected areas objectives.
IUCN (Feb 1998)

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