ABSTRACT
This chapter describes International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as an organization. It focuses on how IUCN as a networked-based international organization manages both its institutional environments. Governance of resource management systems refers to legal and institutional arrangements for setting the broad policies which regulate the use of resources. The World Conservation Congress is the highest authority of IUCN structure. IUCN is made up of members, councils, commissions, the secretariat, donors, partners, and individual volunteers. Along with the Secretariat, these commissions play vital roles in global policy formation through knowledge, action, and influence, and help concerned stakeholders including the governments build conservation efforts at various levels. IUCN has played a key role in bringing science and conservation together through its hybrid membership system. Commission on Education and Communication is a large conservation network and oldest commission in the IUCN system.
