Protected Areas

IUCN Protected Area Publications

From time to time, IUCN together with WCPA and other partners produces books and journal articles on topics related to protected areas. Some of these titles can be accessed here.

Solutions In Focus - Community -led successes in marine conservation Photo: IUCN Solutions in Focus: Community led successes in marine conservation

This PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet publication introduces twenty concrete success stories – ‘solutions’ – from 14 countries, contributed by a variety of organizations. The publication places these examples in the context of the current debate on protected and conserved area diversity and “other effective area-based conservation measures”.

 

Guidelines for tourism partnerships and concessions for protected areas: generating sustainable revenues for conservation and development.

The Guidelines for tourism partnerships and concessions for protected areas: generating sustainable revenues for conservation and development by the Secretariat of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is designed to support protected area authorities and the private sector in their development and use of tourism partnerships and concessioning to contribute financially and technically to biodiversity conservation. 2017

 

Panorama Transboundary PA Solutions

 

The Solutions in Focus: Transboundary Protected Area Solutions brochure contains all transboundary solutions on the PANORAMA platform as of December 2016.

 

A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas

 

The Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas is finalised, has been approved by the IUCN Council and was launched during the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii.  The Standard is available in English, Spanish and French through the above link. IUCN, 2016.

 

Protected Area Governance and Management


Protected Area Governance and Management, Editors Worboys, Lockwood, Kothari, Feary and Pulsford, 2015 or see the PDF chapters.

  • The first chapters will soon be available in French.

     

Nature Based Solutions

 

Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges, IUCN 2016

Cohen-Shacham, E., Janzen, C., Maginnis, Stewart; Walters, Gretchen

 

 


 

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