Biodiversity

Borrini-Feyerabend, G.; Kothari, A and Oviedo, G.; with Adrian Phillips (Series Editor). Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas: Towards Equity and Enhanced Conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for Co-managed Protected Areas and Community Conserved Areas.
PDF: English (size 2.3 MB)
This book builds on the decisions at the Durban Conference, emphasizing the rights of indigenous and local peoples living in and around protected areas, as well as good governance of such areas. It has useful suggestions on co-management of protected areas and guidelines for community management of their own conserved areas. 112 pp.
CEESP publications. Policy Matters Issue No. 13, November 2004. Special issue for the World Conservation Congress. History, culture and conservation.
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This book brings together examples of the importance of culture in people’s lives and in conservation efforts. It also has interesting ideas about measuring cultural diversity. ~300 pp.
CEESP publications. Policy Matters Issue No. 12, September 2003. Special issue for the World Parks Congress. Community Empowerment for Conservation
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This is a collection of interesting articles, in various languages, that reflect people’s empowerment within conservation settings. ~320 pp.
CEESP publications. Issue No. 10, September 2002. Special issue for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Sustainable Livelihoods and Co-management of Natural Resources.
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This collection makes clear the links between people’s livelihoods and conservation issues, through a large number of articles from around the world. It addresses policy, co-management, learning and community action. ~150 pp.
Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment (MLA)
website: http://www.cifor.org/mla/
Working with a range of partners, CIFOR has developed methods for assessing 'what really matters' to communities living in tropical forest landscapes. Known as ‘MLA' (Multidisciplinary Landscape Assessment), this approach enhances the understanding between development practitioners, policy makers and forest communities. The intended result is more informed decisions on policy, land use, and payments for biodiversity services, that will improve forest conservation, protect the needs of local people and advance the wiser management of tropical forests.
The Joint Biodiversity Platform
website: http://www.cifor.org/biodiversity/
The Joint Biodiversity Platform project was launched in 2006 as a joint initiative of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Agroforestry Centre. The platform was launched in recognition of the role that multifunctional landscape mosaics have in preserving biodiversity, both within and outside of protected areas.
The Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG): http://www.povertyandconservation.info/en/
is a forum for facilitating mutual learning between key stakeholders, from a range of backgrounds, on conservation-poverty linkages. The PCLG website is our key mechanism for sharing and dissemination of information and experience on conservation-poverty linkages. The site is centred on four key, fully searchable, databases: a bibliographic database; an organisations database; an initiatives database; and a case studies database.
The Learning for Sustainability site: http://learningforsustainability.net, has been substantially revised and updated over the past few months as a guide to on-line resources for government agency staff, NGOs and other community leaders working to support social learning and collective action as an underlying mechanism to address sustainability issues. A central section of this site links the reader to a range of guides, tools and checklists that can be drawn upon for guidance in this area to address issues such as participation and engagement. Other pages here highlight the lessons that have emerged from researchers and practitioners in different sectors. These include lessons from the HIV/AIDS sector, public health, and protected natural areas. They are shown on their different pages to highlight the fact that each sector is looking at similar human dimensions practice change lessons, and that the more we can learn across sectors the better. A new page in this section now covers tools, tips and techniques for facilitators and other social engagement specialists.
The Global Diversity Foundation: http://www.globaldiversity.org.uk/
which promotes the richness of local cultures and their environments around the world.