Proceedings of the Dryland's Hidden Wealth Conference

An update and analysis of environmental trends, policies and innovations in Jordan and the Arab World

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The IUCN WESCANA Regional Office has just published the full proceedings of the conference it had hosted in Amman 26-27 June 2006 under the title :"Dryland's Hidden Wealth: Integrating Drylands Ecosystem Services Into National Development Planning".

The conference was organized by IUCN WESCANA Office, IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair for Desert Studies in Yarmouk University, Jordan.

The report includes case studies from various countries in the region and a package of policy and scientific recommendations.

The proceedings can be downloaded from

http://www.iucn.org/places/wescana/documents/drylands_conference_proceedings.pdf