A Barcode for Protected Areas
John Waugh,
IUCN USA Multilateral Office
Central to our ability to assess the effectiveness of conservation issues is an agreed means of describing what is and what is not protected. Lands set aside and dedicated to conservation are termed “protected areas”. There are many approaches to the management of lands for conservation, ranging from strict protection where human access is highly restricted and natural processes are allowed to persist unaided and unimpeded by mankind, to active management intervention in favor of a species or community, e.g., through manipulation of habitats to create ideal conditions. To understand conservation impact, it is necessary to understand management approaches. But it is also necessary to understand environmental conditions, not only of the protected site, but of the landscape in which it occurs.
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Wilderness classification and the World Conservation Union
Harold K. Eidsvik
The author was in charge of a task force which examined the role of wilderness in International conservation.
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What does IUCN’s protected area definition actually mean?
Dave Harmon
The following paper was prepared to make some initial proposals about how individual terms within the definition might be interpreted.
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Wetlands of International Importance and the IUCN System of Protected Area Management Categories
Ramsar Secretariat
Over the years, there has been some confusion and uncertainty about the relationship between Wetlands of International Importance and the IUCN system of protected area management categories
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Clarifying the IUCN Definition of a protected area
Challenge Paper
Nigel Dudley
A key issue for the task force is in clarifying the interpretation of IUCN;'s definition of a protected area. Nigel Dudley, chair of the task force, outlines the issues and looks at the options open to IUCN
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What do we mean by "wild nature".
Deborah Bird Rose
of the Australian National University gives an indigenous peoples' perspective that challenges some western notions of nature and protection
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World Heritage and IUCN Categories – Teasing out a Relationship
Marc Patry, UNESCO World Heritage Centre
The two main aims of this short paper are to: Explain how natural World Heritage relates to the IUCN definition of protected areas; explain how natural World Heritage relates to the IUCN management categories
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