Browsing Publications and Documents by Subject "UNITED NATIONS PROTECTED AREAS"
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1993 United Nations List of National Parks and Protected Areas
(International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1994)The 1993 edition of the UN List includes sites in IUCN Management Categories! through V. It is intended that Category VI sites will be included in the next edition. Protected areas which are also designated Ramsar Sites, ... -
2018 United Nations List of Protected Areas: Supplement on protected area management effectiveness
(2018)The United Nations List of Protected Areas (hereafter referred to as ‘the UN List’) is a list of terrestrial, coastal and marine protected areas designated by governments around the world. Since its initial publication in ... -
The Costs Benefits and Unmet Needs of Biological diversity in Kenya
(1992)This Report is concerned with assessing the nature and extent of Kenya's biodiversity, examining why and in what ways it is being changed over time, what the reasons are for that change, what measures need to be taken to ... -
Final Reports on Research Projects Dealing with Biological Effects (Research Area III): MAP Technical Reports Series No. 103
(1996)This volume is the one-hundred and third issue of the Mediterranean Action Plan Technical Reports Series. This series contains selected reports resulting from the various activities performed within the framework of the ... -
Les aires protégées en Méditerranée: Essai d'étude analytique de la législation pertinente - MAP Technical Reports Series No. 83
(1994)Cette étude consiste essentiellement en un examen, pays par pays, de la législation des Etats riverains de la Méditerranée relative la création d'aires protégées marines ou cotières et notamment des Aires Spécialement ... -
Protected Planet Report 2012: Tracking Progress Towards Global Targets for Protected Areas
(2012)For over a century the establishment of protected areas has been a fundamental strategy to conserve biodiversity. Today we know that well-managed protected areas support not only healthy ecosystems and threatened species, ... -
Protected Planet Report 2016: How Protected Areas Contribute to Achieving Global Targets for Biodiversity
(2016)The report underscores the importance of protected areas in sustaining the functions and values of natural ecosystems as well as the needs of human society. It highlights the nature-based solutions that protected areas ... -
Protected Planet Report 2018: Tracking Progress Towards Global Targets for Protected Areas
(2018)Based on the world’s most up to date records in the World Database on Protected Areas, managed jointly by UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, the report confirms that almost 15% of the earth’s land surface and inland waters, and just above ... -
SDG 15 Issue Brief: Promoting the Sustainability of Terrestrial Ecosystems and Halting Desertification, Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss
(2018)Sustainable Development Goal 15 – Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. -
State of Environment and Outlook Report for the occupied Palestinian Territory 2020
(2020)This report provides an overview of the current state of the environment in the occupied Palestinian territory. Building on earlier work by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the report includes analysis of ... -
The World’s Protected Areas: Status, Values and Prospects in the 21st Century
(2008)Because of the nature of the changes affecting the world's protected areas it is essential that we periodically make the effort to review their status and to understand the challenges that these special places face. This ...