This publication is a positive step in building up public awareness about an area of great diversity but beset with the problems of the vulnerability of small islands and the limited resources of micro-nations.
The Ipcc Response Strategies
Climate Change is the report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and UNEP to address the threat of global warming on an international...
333 pages
8.5 x 11
Americans are having an increasing impact on the rural landscape as development further encroaches in former wilderness areas. This disruptive land use is causing a decline in wildlife and wildlife habitats. Wildlife and Habitats in Managed...
238 pages
6 x 9
Ecological Guidelines
This book is a comprehensive guide to fundamental ecological principles in tropical moist forest lands. This edition has been revised to encompass our increased knowledge and understandings of the complexities of forest management. It addresses...
78 pages
6.8 x 9.8
Status Survey And Conservation Action Plan
Presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the 36 wild cats of the world. It includes the first published collection of detailed range maps and some of the first photographs of rare species in the wild. It provides a...
406 pages
8.5 x 11
An Action Plan for their Conservation
This is the first insect Action Plan prepared by the IUCN Species Survival Commission, and was chosen because swallowtail butterflies are perhaps the most charismatic to non-entomologists. Some are the largest butterflies which exist, and the...
40 pages
8.5 x 11
Conservation, Management, and Sustainable Use
The focus of this book is primarily on the conservation of wild species and natural ecosystems. It is about conservation strategy but touches on poverty, politics, economic development, war, geography, education and other human concerns. It puts...
242 pages
8.5 x 12
"Proceedings Of A Workshop Held At The Iucn General Assembly, Perth, Australia, 30 November - 1 December 1990"
At the meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organization held in Bali in 1990, ITTO adopted the target of ensuring that all tropical timber marketed internationally should, by the year 2000, come from forests that are managed sustainably...
244 pages
7 x 10
An Action Plan For Their Conservation
These booklets give the general reader facts and information about fur-bearing mammals from a more conservation-oriented perspective than information generally available from other sources. Each is based on the relevant SSC Action Plan, and is...
130 pages
6 x 8.2