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(Message started by: Project Officer on Jun 3^rd, 2004, 10:02pm)

Title: Ramsar Handbooks on Wise Use
Post by Project Officer on Jun 3^rd, 2004, 10:02pm

Ramsar Handbooks on Wise Use ready in English.

The Ramsar "Toolkit" was first published in 2000 (in boxed hardcover set and on CD-ROM by the United Nations University), nine handbooks that incorporated the guidance on the wise use of wetlands adopted by the Conference of the Parties through to COP7 in 1999 as well as a good deal of additional material, such as related Resolutions of the COP, case studies, illustrations, etc. Now the 2nd edition of the Handbooks for the Wise Use of Wetlands is ready in English, 14 volumes including additional guidance from Ramsar COP8 in 2002 and revised versions of most of the previous volumes.

Prepared by Sandra Hails and Nick Davidson over the past year and professionally laid out by L'IV Communications of Morges, Switzerland, the full set will be published on CD-ROM in not too long a time, in PDF versions suitable for printing by all interested readers (and available in hardcopy in very limited quantities from the Secretariat) - all of the handbooks will also be available for download from this Web site, and for starters the entire English version is now ready. The French and Spanish versions, too, are well progressed and will be added to this Web site as they are finalized.

The translations, lay-out, and CD-ROM publication have been generously funded by the General Directorate for Nature Conservation, Ministry of Environment, Spain, as part of Spain's support for Ramsar COP8 and the publication of its proceedings. [03/06/04]

http://ramsar.org/lib_handbooks_e.htm

http://ramsar.org/pictures/handbook-logo.jpg

Source of information: http://ramsar.org/w.n.html