PDF: Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas: A Global Review of Challenges and Options
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IUCN (2006). Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas: A Global Review of Challenges and Options. Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 13. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
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Summary
From Foreword:
Dear Friends and Colleagues
The IUCN/WCPA Best Practice Series commenced in 1998. As with many good ideas, the origins can be traced back
to discussions over a bottle (or two) of wine between staff from IUCN’s Programme on Protected Areas and the then
Chair of WCPA, Adrian Phillips. The original concept was of a guideline series that would draw on knowledge and
experience from WCPA members and from protected area managers around the world, and distil this collective
knowledge into practical and useful advice for all involved in protected areas. Each Best Practice Guideline has
addressed a topical issue for protected area management and has consolidated the thinking of leading protected area
thinkers from around the world in relation to the topic under review. They have been widely distributed and,
increasingly, translated into many languages, including Chinese and Russian.
The outstanding success of the Best Practice Series is a tribute to the hard work, dedication, competence and incredible editing skills of Adrian Phillips, the Series Editor for the first 12 Guideline Documents. IUCN would like to place on record its enormous appreciation to Adrian for all he has achieved. IUCN would also like to thank Cardiff University in Wales, which has provided financial support and an institutional home for the Guideline Series – without this support the initial idea would never have become a reality.
This document represents Guideline Number 13 in this series and future topics have been “booked up” until 2008. It also represents a period of transition – with Professor Peter Valentine, from James Cook University in Australia (Queensland) taking over the role of Series Editor from Adrian Phillips, and the host of the Guideline Series moving from Cardiff University to James Cook University with support from the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management (CRC Rainforest Centre). IUCN would like to place on record its most sincere appreciation to James Cook University for the generous support offered.
David Sheppard
Head, Programme on Protected Areas
The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
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