RESOURCES

Landscape/Seascape Level Analysis

• The Ecosystem Approach: Five Steps to Implementation (IUCN, 2004)
• The Ecosystem Approach:  Learning from Experience (IUCN, 2008)

• Biodiversity and Offset Program (BBOP): Offset Design Handbook
• Biodiversity and Offset Program (BBOP): Offset Implementation Handbook

Ecosystem Services

• IPIECA Ecosystem Services Guidance: Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services Guide and Checklists (2011)
• Corporate Ecosystem Services Review (ESR): Guidelines for Identifying Business Risks and Opportunities Arising from Ecosystem Change  (2008)
• World Resources Institute Training Materials on Ecosystem Services Review
• ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Ecosystem Services), is a computer model and decision-support system aims to assist decision-makers and researchers by estimating and forecasting ecosystem services provision and their correspondent range of economic values in a specific area.
• InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs), is a tool to assess how distinct scenarios might lead to different ecosystem service and human well-being related outcomes in particular geographic areas.
• MIMES (Multiscale Integrated Models of Ecosystem Services), is a model that  evaluates land use changes and subsequent effects on ecosystem services on global, regional and local levels.

Living Natural Resources

• Better Cotton Initiative
• Better Sugar Cane Initiative
• Forest Stewardship Council
• Global Conference on Sustainable Beef
• ISEAL Alliance, a global association of environmental and social standards.
• Marine Stewardship Council
• Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuel
• Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
• Roundtable on Responsible Soy

• Alliance for Zero Extinction
• Dams in Amazonia, online mapping tool.
• Important Bird Areas
• Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCA) Registry
• World Database of Protected Areas
• Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) for Business
• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Qualified Consultant Databases

• HCV Network
• WRI Ecosystem Services Experts Director
• IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Specialist Groups

• International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), Principles on Biodiversity in Impact Assessment, IAIA Special Publication Series No. 3.
• Convention on Biological Diversity, Decision VIII/28 Impact Assessment: Voluntary Guidelines on Biodiversity-Inclusive Impact Assessment
• Integrating Biodiversity into Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Processes

What is a Biodiversity Action Plan, and what is its relationship to other management plans?

• A Guide to Developing Biodiversity Action Plans for the Oil & Gas Sector
• Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity
• Integrating Biodiversity Conservation into Oil and Gas Development, available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese.
• Integrating Biodiversity into Environmental Management Systems
• Good Practice in the Prevention and Mitigation of Primary and Secondary Biodiversity Impacts
• Opportunities for Benefiting Biodiversity Conservation
• A Guide to Biodiversity for the Private Sector: Why Biodiversity Matters and Why it Creates Business Value, online tool International Finance Corporation

• Biodiversity Indicators for Monitoring Impacts and Conservation Actions

The Role of External Review Panels

• IUCN: Operational Guidelines for Private Sector Engagement
• IUCN: Learning for the Future - Lessons learned and documentation of the process of independent scientific review panel for Western Gray Whales in Sakhalin.
• IUCN: Report of the Independent Scientific Review Panel for Sakhalin II