Protected areas

Focused on the American West, The Center for Large Landscape Conservation creates strategies to solve nature’s large scale challenges, such as climate change, habitat fragmentation and loss of vital goods and services provided by healthy ecosys

The Mobile Seminar on Planning and Managing
Tourism in Protected Areas is an intensive, 2.5 week
field-based training event for individuals working to
promote sustainable tourism and outdoor recreation
in parks and nature reserves worldwide. The seminar
will build the skills of participants to plan and manage
public use and outdoor recreation programs in protected
areas to build support for conservation, contribute to
public health, fund protected area management, and
provide economic benefits to local communities and

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csu_tourism_and_pas_mobile_seminar_2013_brochure.pdf

This sourcebook has two purposes. The first is to provide a selection of evaluation tools and change mechanisms for collaborative groups to consider and use. The second is tostimulate discussion of evaluation and adaptation in collaborative resource management. Collaborative resource management and adaptive management are not new concepts, but experience has not caught up to theory, and there is much to learn from the rapidly evolving efforts underway.

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evaluation__adapatation_in_collab_resource_mgmt.pdf

   A United Nations-backed project in Kenya is protecting forests and wildlife, as well as providing alternative livelihoods, and offers valuable lessons on how governments and the private sector can successfully work together for the betterment of communities and the environment.

The Yuracyacu subwatershed is part of the Alto Mayo basin in northeastern Peru, where CI-Peru implements