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Hamú, D., Auchincloss, E., Goldstein, W. (eds.). 2004. Communicating Protected Areas. Commission on Education and Communication, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge.

The papers within this publication are drawn from presentations at the Vth International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Parks Congress in Durban, 2003 (the outcomes of which influenced the development of the Convention on Biological Diversity's Protected Areas Programme of Work) as well as complimentary preparatory work of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC).

The book is divided into the following general sections: strategic communication to build support for protected areas; case studies in the use of communication to build support for protected areas by governmental agencies; non-governmental organizations; looking to the future: professionalizing protected area communication.