How is your MPA doing? : a guidebook of natural and social indicators for evaluating Marine Protected Area Management effectiveness

This guidebook offers managers and other conservation practitioners1 a process and methods to evaluate the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) for the purposes of adaptive management. The evaluation is based on indicators that measure the effectiveness of management actions in attaining goals and objectives that are specific to MPAs, the marine environment and coastal communities. It presents a flexible approach that can be used in many types of MPAs, such as multiple-use areas or no-take zones, where each may have different goals and objectives.

UNEP Annual Report 2024

Last year brought both successes and disappointments in global efforts to tackle the triple planetary crisis: the crisis of climate change; the crisis of nature and biodiversity loss and desertification; and the crisis of pollution and waste.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 32 p.

Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use : lessons learned from ecological networks

The importance of strengthening ecological coherence and resilience as necessary
conditions for both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development has
attracted growing attention in recent years in a wide range of conservation and
development fora. The World Summit on Sustainable Development, that was
held in Johannesburg in September 2002, adopted the goal of securing by 2010 a
significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss. In setting out how
this can be achieved within the context of sustainable development, the

Collaborating for sustainability : a resource kit for facilitators of participatory natural resource management in the Pacific

Addressing unsustainable resource use and environmental degr adation is a central challenge for people of the Pacific. Many programs, past and present, have grappled with such issues as nature conservation, climate change, sustainable use of marine and land based resources, and waste management. Some crucial lessons have been emerged from this recent history. Firstly, natural resource management (NRM) programs in the Pacific Islands (and elsewhere) generally have a much greater chance of