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Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable and Mgahinga Gorilla national parks are home to 300 endangered
mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla berengi) and to significant biodiversity. That habitat was once seriously threatened by economic exploitation, but now enjoys local-level conservation...
In natural resource management research, best practice implies the participation of community members, research or development teams, and other stakeholders to jointly identify research, development parameters, and contribute to decision-making. Ideally, the research or development...
Valuation ultimately refers to the contribution of an item to meeting a specific goal or objective. Conventional economic valuation is based on the goal of allocative efficiency. But other social goals may be equally, if not more, important. For example, the goals of social fairness...
This paper presents the findings of a brief study conducted under Phase I of a global initiative of
the U.K. Department for International Development, Developing markets for watershed
protection services and improved livelihoods, which is being implemented by the International...
This document is an orientation to sources of funding for protected areas and biodiversity
conservation. It is designed to serve as a primer and basic guidelines for protected area agencies
and managers as well as non-governmental organizations carrying out programs of...
El pago por la protección de la cobertura vegetal para garantizar el flujo y calidad del agua ha sido el fundamento de diferentes iniciativas en curso en Colombia y Ecuador. A pesar del auge de este tipo de iniciativas, no se ha realizado una evaluación o discusión sobre las...
Nature conservation policies in different countries are increasingly linked to global ecological decision making. Examples of such linkages abound, and range from priorities and policy objectives defined in international forums and institutions, to the action of global environmentally...
Quito and its neighboring towns and villages, among the country's most populated regions, receive their water supply form the high plateaus of the Andean mountain range. Some of these watersheds are located inside protected areas, such as the Antisana and Caymabe-Coca Ecological...
From a conceptual point of view, national forest management standards in Latin American countries have progressed significantly in recent years.Examples include the Costa Rican Standards and Procedures for Sustainable Forest Management and Certification, developed by the National...
El presente documento está basada en la experiencia de Met@LoGo en Perú y detalla el proceso de reforma en la gestión de las municipalidades, a lo largo de sus etapas de acuerdo con la metodología aplicada en los cuatro países involucrados en Met@LoGo: Chile, Colombia, Honduras y Perú...
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