Thomas Friedman on the World Parks Congress held in Sydney, Australia November 12 - 19, this is from where Ive just returned. The International Union for Conservation of Nature holds the parks congress roughly every 10 years to draw attention to the 209,000 protected areas, which cover 15.4 percent of the planet’s terrestrial and inland water areas and 3.4 percent of the oceans, according to the I.U.C.N. The article includes a great quote by Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, a co-author on Environmental governance and peacebuilding in post-conflict Central America: Lessons from the Central American Commission for Environment and Development, Matthew Wilburn King, Futurity (USA), Marco Antonio González, Comisión Centroamericana de Ambiente y Dasarrollo (CCAD) (Nicaragua), Mauricio Castro-Salazar, Fundecooperacion para el Desarrollo Sostenible (El Salvador), Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Conservation International (Costa Rica). Link to publication: barnesandnoble/w/governance-natural-resources-and-post-conflict-peacebuilding-carl-bruch/1101972403?ean=9781849712354 Link to Thomas Friedmans article: nytimes/2014/11/23/opinion/sunday/thomas-l-friedman-stampeding-black-elephants.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A14%22%7D&_r=0
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:52:39 +0000
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