Background documents for the conference included the followings:

1. Wilderness and large natural habitat areas: definition and background
2. The role of wildlands in halting biodiversity loss
3. Key aspects and benefits of management practice
4. Proposal for a European Wilderness Register
5. An Overview of Wilderness and Wildland Law
6. Quantification of wilderness benefits
7. A checklist of wilderness benefits: identification, valuation, usage 
8. Study of the social benefits of wildlands - for youth at risk, healthcare and conflict resolution (by others)
9. Assessment of the multiple roles of business in supporting wildland strategy

The background documents can be downloaded below.

The documentation will be updated for the conference proceedings and there will be an additional document on mapping wilderness and wild areas added.

Attachments:

File	File size
01definition_background.pdf	279 Kb
02halting_biodiversity_loss.pdf	282 Kb
03management_practice.pdf	339 Kb
05wilderness_register.pdf	162 Kb
06wilderness_law.pdf	355 Kb
07benefit_quantification.pdf	333 Kb
08social_benefits.pdf	458 Kb
09reuniting_climatechange.pdf	223 Kb
10multiple_business_role.pdf	348 Kb
authors_contributors.pdf	158 Kb