Course Description & Objectives:
- The world conservation strategy,
- The Brundtland Report and caring for the earth.
- The earth-summit-inputs and outputs.
- Sustainable development- the concept, weakness and strength.
- Sustainable development in relation to environmental issues and planning policy.
- Bio-diversity-meaning and implications.
- The global Bio-diversity strategy: international considerations and national plans: biodiversity and cultural diversity.
- Protected Areas and biodiversity. Plans to protect biodiversity. Principles of design for protected areas and their applications.
- Management of protected areas, man wild life interactions, conflicts and buffer zone areas.
- Management issues in the different environment (forests, savannas, wetlands, mountains).
- Conservation in situ, ex situ and outside protected areas.
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