Showing papers by "International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources published in 1976"

Tourism and Environmental Conservation: Conflict, Coexistence, or Symbiosis?

Abstract: A new and promising field has appeared as a result of the increased tourist industry based on natural resources, though too often such expansion has been achieved without due planning and has taken many people by surprise. Conservationists and their organizations have often reacted adversely to this ‘invasion’, but this need not be so. There are many reasons and examples which prove that a change of attitude, leading to a symbiotic relationship between tourism and conservation in the wide sense, can offer a very large variety of advantages and benefits—physical, cultural, ethical, and economic—to a country.A tourist industry can expect a brilliant future, based on natural assets of the environment, provided due consideration is given to the ecological principles which must guide resource-use. The alliance of those responsible for tourism with ecologists and conservationists is a natural one, that should contribute greatly to development—the right kind of development involving the right kind of change—leading to a better quality of life for all concerned.

The Global Problems of Conservation and the Potential Role of Living Collections

Abstract: Generally speaking, one can distinguish three phases or periods in the process of developing a comprehensive programme for nature conservation, be it on a world scale, a regional or national level. Conservation, as here defined, implies “the management of the resources of the environment — air, water, soil and living species including man — so as to achieve the highest sustainable quality of human life; management in this context includes surveys, research, legislation, administration, preservation, utilisation and implies education and training”.