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This EPA report aims to help local governments, water utilities, nonprofit organizations, neighborhood groups, and other stakeholders integrate green infrastructure strategies into plans that can transform their communities, and acts as a guide to develop a plan that can overcome current green infrastructure obstacles for neighborhoods, towns, cities, and regions of all sizes.

This Green Destinations Standard is a set of criteria to measure, monitor and improve sustainable tourism policies and management of destinations and regions.

The GSTC Destination criteria presents a comprehensive list of certification standards, indicators, criteria, and best practices for tourism stakeholder to use as basic guidelines for sustainable destination development and management. The GSTC criteria is organized into four main categories: management, socioeconomic, culture, and the environment.

The GSTC criteria for hotels and tour operators provides business owners with standards and indicators to effectively conduct sustainable planning while maximizing social and economic benefits for the local community, enhancing cultural heritage, and reducing negative impacts to the environment, as a basis for certification for sustainability.

This collaborative CBD, UNEP, and GIZ report acts as a primer for policymakers and voluntary guidelines for the design and effective implementation of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.

The purpose of the Global Report is to provide a dynamic global picture relating to the four ILO categories of fundamental principles and rights at work.

This book examines the key principles of indigenous ecotourism through global case studies and analyzes the key factors for sustainable development.

This G Adventures, Planatera, and GW IITS set of guidelines are for travel companies that work with indigenous communities around the world to encourage responsible conduct and guide good business practices that serve and protect the interests of indigenous communities and travel companies as well as produce visitor experiences that are authentic, respectful and rewarding.

This IUCN global standard aims to equip users with a robust framework for designing and verifying nature-based solutions (NbS) that yield the outcomes desired, in solving one or several societal challenge(s). The Standard is designed to support users to apply, learn and continuously strengthen and improve the effectiveness, sustainability and adaptability of their NbS interventions.

Traditional rural livelihoods are disappearing due to natural resource decline, climate pressure and,
also modernization. This study explores livelihood diversification from primary economic activities
into tourism employment in rural communities. We examine the developmental role of tourism in
areas where traditional activities, in this case fishing, have declined and tourism is growing. This
article presents the findings of two case studies: the coastal communities of Padstow (UK) and Paternoster (South Africa).