Protected Area Categories Summit, Alméria Spain, 7-11 May 2007

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The use of the categories in national and international legislation and policy
Extract from Parks Magazine
AS PART OF THE SPEAKING A COMMON LANGUAGE PROJECT, the Environmental Law Centre (ELC) of IUCN – The World Conservation Union, was asked to research legal and policy frameworks for protected areas to see whether these have been influenced by the IUCN system of protected area management categories.
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Protected Areas and Certification
ELC Paper
Nigel Dudley
Discussion of options for using certification as a means of assuring both management effectiveness of protected areas and accuracy of application of the categories, prepared for thre World Parks Congress in 2003
PDF 270KB

Influence of IUCN Protected Area Management Categories on National, Regional, International legal Policy Frameworks
Benita J Dillon, Scientific Officer, IUCN Environmental Law Centre
Many governments have incorporated the categories into national laws. Benita Dillon of the Environmental Law Centre provided a thorough overview of national legal responses to the 1994 categories in a paper prepared for the Speaking a Common Language project
PDF 656 KB

 

 

Working Papers
1 Definition
2. Categories
3. Using Categories
4. Governance
5. WDPA
6. Biomes
7. Management
Effectiveness
8. Case Studies
9. Workshops
10. External Papers
11. Industry related
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South Australia Review 26.04
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Wilderness Classification 18.04
Fundamental Shift 17.04
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