GUIDELINES FOR CAVE AND KARST PROTECTION
Editors: David Gillieson, John Gunn, Augusto Auler, Terry Bolger
Year: 2022
In 1997, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released the first edition of the Guidelines for Cave and Karst Protection to support the growing international need for guidance in cave and karst management. In recognition of the International Year of Caves and Karst, the UIS released the second edition, in cooperation with the IUCN, where 16 leading experts updated and expanded the guidelines to include new knowledge gained over the past 25 years.
You can find the Guidelines on following links:
Guidelines for Cave and Karst Protection – second edition
Listing of 76 recommendations for cave and karst protection (different languages)
KARST, CAVES AND PEOPLE
Author: Nadja Zupan Hajna (Slovenia, UIS President)
Year: 2021
The purpose of the book is to present karst phenomena as natural sights in a popular way, and at the same time, emphasize their importance to people and their extreme vulnerability.
Through numerous photographs and schematic models, the book tries to explain scientific findings about karst processes, formation of different surface forms and cave types, as also the problems which people arise to the karst environment with their way of life. The photographs of sixty-two authors represent different types of karst and caves from almost all over the world.
Karst functions the same way all over the world. People have negatively affected the environment for thousands of years, but the sheer size of today’s human population leads to more conspicuous and inevitable negative environmental consequences. Pollution affects not only water quality but also caves and their fragile ecosystems.
The basis for all karst protection activities is knowledge and understanding. Karst and caves are part of our environment. Even if we do not live in the karst or ever visit a cave, all people on Earth benefit from the water they provide, from their ecosystems, and from their economic values linked to tourism.
The book was published with the help of the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO
- Publishing House: Založba ZRC
- Publisher: Karst Research Institute
- Language: English
- Specifications: hardback • 28 × 21 cm • 172 pages • illustrated
- Available at: https://zalozba.zrc-sazu.si/p/1638
FIFTY YEARS OF THE UIS – 1965-2015
Author: José Ayrton Labegalini (Brasil, UIS Past President)
Year: 2015
Until this book, the history of the UIS was spread out in the minutes of the meetings and General Assemblies, various UIS publications, and the proceedings of its International Congresses. Moreover, much of it was never written and was available only from the memories of past presidents, secretaries, and other members of the UIS.
In this book, the author presents the purpose of the Union and summarizes all its events through the first 50 years of its existence, as well as a variety of behind-the-scenes stories about the entity, as remembered by members of previous UIS bureaus; many of these have never before been recorded.
- Publishing House: Založba ZRC, Ljubljana, 2015
- Publisher: Karst Research Institute ZRC-SAZU, Postojna, Slovenia
- Co-publisher: Union Internationale de Spéléologie-UIS
- Language: English
- Specifications: hardcover • 17 × 23,5 cm • 526 pages
- Available at: https://izrkp.zrc-sazu.si/en/publikacije/fifty-years-of-the-uis-1