Would you like to read an introduction to socioeconomic assessments and their application for conservation initiatives?
A Guide to Socioeconomic Assessments for Ecoregion Conservation
By Ecoregional Conservation Strategies Unit, 2000, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
This document provides a flexible guide to socioeconomic assessments for ecoregion conservation. Four essential tasks are introduced: stakeholder analysis; analysis of threats and opportunities; defining possible interventions; and monitoring and evaluation. Each of these tasks contributes to the ultimate goal of designing, implementing, and constantly improving conservation actions at an ecoregion scale.
English (19 pages, PDF, 59 KB)
User's Guide to Assessing the Socio-Economic Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss
By Macroeconomics Program Office, 2000, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
The purpose of this guide is to provide a step-by-step, practical methodology for conducting in-depth studies of the root causes of biodiversity loss. The analytic approach developed by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) offers a way to balance both quantitative and qualitative data to gain a complete picture of what is driving biodiversity loss at various sites. It is intended to be used to complement rigorous and quantitative ecological or biological studies whenever possible. The approach is primarily designed for use and adaptation by field staff, scientists and other conservation practitioners in the field who are interested in conducting root causes studies of their own.
English (17 pages, PDF, 189 KB)
Would you like to have an introduction to enterprise development?
A Community Economic Development (CED) Training Manual for Peace Corps Volunteers
By Center for Field Assistance and Applied Research, 2002, U.S. Peace Corps
This guide was developed to demonstrate why and how community economic development is used to improve individuals' and communities' economic well-being. The manual promotes community economic development by contrasting it to more traditional economic development approaches and stressing the participation of citizens in the process. Practical methods for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating strategic community economic development agendas are also discussed.
English (165 pages, PDF, 682 KB)
Would you like to learn more about ecotourism development?
Ecotourism Development: A Manual for Conservation Planners and Managers, Volume 1: An Introduction to Ecotourism Planning
By Andy Drumm and Alan Moore © 2002 The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
This manual focuses on providing a set of criteria to ecotourism planners and managers at conservation non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to facilitate decisions with respect to ecotourism management and development. It includes an introduction to the critical elements of ecotourism management planning, including zoning, visitor impact monitoring, visitor site design and management, income generation mechanisms, infrastructure and visitor guidelines, and naturalist guide systems. It also outlines the business planning process for promoting viable business partnerships with communities or private tourism operators.
English (85 pages, PDF, 3.53 MB)
Español (88 páginas, PDF, 1.71 MB)
Participatory Ecotourism Planning
By Juan Carlos Bonilla, 1997 revised 2003, Conservation International (CI)
This document presents a model of participatory ecotourism planning based on field experiences of Conservation International (CI). It presents case studies from Guatemala and Peru and a simple step-by-step methodology to approach ecotourism planning using a participatory approach. The case in Guatemala is a particularly good example of the resilience of a participatory planning process.
English (46 pages, PDF)
Would you like to learn more about forest-based income-earning opportunities?
Incomes from the Forest: Methods for the Development and Conservation of Forest Products for Local Communities
Edited by Eva Wollenberg and Andrew Ingles © 1998 Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
This volume presents concepts and approaches for assessing forest-based income-earning opportunities that are potentially compatible with conservation. It includes discussions on the role of non-timber forest products in conservation and development, a production-to-consumption systems approach, feasibility analyses, profitability assessments, calculating sustainable harvest levels, income estimations, social impact evaluation methodologies, and outcome-based policies for sustainable logging.
English (available online at: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/books/incomes.pdf)
Would you like information about sustainable agriculture?
Maximum Yield?: Sustainable Agriculture as a Tool for Conservation
By R. Margoluis, V. Russell, M. Gonzalez, O. Rojas, J. Magdaleno, G. Madrid, and D. Kaimowitz, © 2001 Biodiversity Support Program (BSP)
In the 1980's, sustainable agriculture gained popularity among international conservation organizations as a tool for project managers to combat deforestation and thus reach conservation goals. The research presented here found that sustainable agriculture decreases deforestation only under certain conditions but that it serves as an important mechanism to decrease other threats to biodiversity, such as fire.
English (32 pages, pdf 875 MB)
Español (32 páginas, pdf 773 MB)
Sustainable Agriculture Extension Manual
By International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), 1998
The manual provides an overview of selected problems and issues in sustainable agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa, and the various attempts by individuals, communities and development organizations to overcome these problems. It provides specific examples of technologies and approaches, as well as selected cases of individual farmers' and communities' experiences. It is hoped that these will stimulate researchers and field practitioners to test and adapt these options to local conditions, and to generate and share new approaches and technologies.
English (HTML, available online at: http://www.iirr.org/book.htm)
Would you like to learn more about the application of economic analysis for determining the impact of development projects on protected areas?
Two Roads and a Lake: An Economic Analysis of Infrastructure Development in the Beni River Watershed
By John Reid, © 1999 Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF)
This report focuses on the impacts of three major infrastructure proposals on conservation in the Madidi National Park, Bolivia. The report shows the use of tools from traditional economics and environmental economics for impact analysis.
English/Español (40 p., PDF, 1.19 MB)
Environmental Economics: A Practical Guide
By Richard McNally and Mohd. Shahwahid Hj. Othman, 2002, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
This book was written jointly by World Wildlife Fund (WWF-UK) and the University Putra Malaysia. It describes the basic elements of environmental economics and uses case studies to allow the reader to better understand them. There are also practical exercises and an Excel programme to enable the reader to apply environmental economics methodologies.
English (available online at: http://www.wwf.org.uk/0000000226.asp)
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