Urban outreach strategies for protected area agencies

[Home page of this section — Includes information on related publications and activities]     THIS IS THE WEB VERSION OF A 168-PAGE PRINTED BOOK   See below for the table of contents, links to individual articles in HTML, and a link to the PDF version. Click here to order the print version.   The Urban Imperative: Urban outreach strategies for protected area agencies   How those responsible for protected areas can better serve people in large cities and build stronger urban constituencies for nature conservation   Proceedings of a workshop at the Vth World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, 8-17 September 2003   EDITED BY TED TRZYNA   Following are links to articles posted on this Web site in HTML form.   Note: In addition to the printed version and these HTML pages, the book is posted on IUCN's Web site in PDF form: Go to www.iucn.org/wcpa and click on Publications by Subject; then go to Cities. Although the PDF has 46,146 kb, it is divided into parts. Please note that there are minor differences (in punctuation, bibliographic form, etc.) between some of the papers in this Web version and the print version. The print/PDF version is definitive.   [Quotable quotes from The Urban Imperative]   Foreword: Jeffrey A. McNeely   Introduction: Ted Trzyna [Summarizes the book; makes recommendations]   Reflections: Judy Ling Wong   Workshop sponsors   Part 1:  Cities depend on protected areas   The role of forest protected areas in supplying drinking water to the world's biggest cities: Nigel Dudley and Sue Stolton   Some benefits of protected areas for urban communities: A view from Sydney, Australia: Nicholas Conner   Resource economics as a tool for open space planning in Durban, South Africa: Debra Roberts, et al.   Part 2:  Protected areas depend on cities   Raising the priority of urban areas in protected area systems in Brazil and beyond: Pedro da Cunha e Menezes   A city defends its natural heritage: Hong Kong's Country and Marine Parks: Fook-Yee Wong   California cities and the protection and restoration of Yosemite National Park: John J. Reynolds   Community-driven stewardship of an Australian government protected area: Pamela Parker and Michael Punturiero   Part 3:  Strategies for linking cities and protected areas   Connecting with nature in a capital city: The London Biodiversity Strategy: David Goode   Paris-Nature: An innovative urban ecology program: Mark Lellouch   The City of Cape Town's Biodiversity Strategy: Tania Katzschner, et al.   Biodiversity conservation as a social bridge in the urban context: Cape Town's sense of "The Urban Imperative" to protect its biodiversity and empower its people: George Davis   Mosaic: Building links between ethnic groups and national parks in the United Kingdom: Jessica Memon   A conservation agency creates "natural parks" in inner-city Los Angeles: Ted Trzyna   "Healthy Parks, Healthy People" and other social capital initiatives of Parks Victoria, Australia: John Senior and Mardie Townsend   Kids for Tigers: The Sanctuary Asia Tiger Program: A globally replicable contact program to win support for wildlife and protected areas: Bittu Sahgal   Vision beyond mandate: Creating farmland protected areas in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico: Todd Miller   Part 4:  Making partnerships work   Groundwork: An innovative British environmental partnership organization: Ted Trzyna   Chicago Wilderness: A collaborative model for urban conservation: Lucy Hutcherson   Building urban constituencies for nature conservation: The Golden Gate experience: Brian O'Neill and Greg Moore   Conservation NGOs as leaders in protecting urban nature: Aves Argentinas' urban nature reserves project: Maria Virginia De Francesco   Nature education in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan: The important role of volunteers: Shin Wang   Part 5:  Evaluation   How to reach urban communities: Lessons learned from museum evaluation: Martin Storksdieck   Appendix:   World Parks Congress Recommendation 5.14: Cities and Protected Areas _______________   [See the home page of this section for information on related publications and activities]     The Specialist Group:   • Specialist Group members   • Steering group   • Secretariat   Working groups:   • Urban Protected Areas   • The Biosphere Reserve Concept and Urban Areas   • Cities and Conservation   • Dark Skies (Advisory Group)   • Mediterranean-type Regions (Advisory Group)   • Historic Urban Landscapes (Project)   Key cooperating organizations:   Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB) project of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability   Urban Protected Areas Network, based at the University of Paris X   Next steps: Cities in Nature, Nature in Cities   Publications:   THE URBAN IMPERATIVE: Urban outreach strategies for protected area agencies (Full text of the 2005 book]   Quotable quotes from The Urban Imperative   GLOBAL URBANIZATION AND PROTECTED AREAS: Challenges and opportunities posed by a major factor of global change — and creative ways of responding [Full text of a 2007 paper]   CLIMATE CHANGE AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CONSERVATIONISTS TO BUILD NEW ALLIANCES [Report of a 2008 workshop]   Publications and other media contributing to the Specialist Group's work:   GROWING TOGETHER: Thinking and Practice of Urban Nature Conservators (Cape Flats Nature partnership, South African National Biodiversity Institute)   THE MANAGER: A 14-minute online film about a municipal conservationist in Cape Town (SANBI) [Go to "Films"]   GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF LIGHT POLLUTION IMPACT ON PROTECTED AREAS (CIESIN, Columbia University)   Specialist Group activities:   Accomplishments 2003-2004  2005  2006 2007   Current and planned activities 2008-10   The 2004 IUCN World Conservation Congress (Bangkok, Thailand, 2004): Report on Cities Task Force activities Adopted Resolutions   The Fifth World Parks Congress (Durban, South Africa, 2003) Workshop: The Urban Imperative The book Selected papers online Workshop participants' Web sites Congress Recommendation   How to get involved (Mainly for the IUCN family)   http://www.interenvironment.org/pa/papers2.htm