For the case of small protected sites (micro-reserves) please visit my profile in Research Gate where you can download possible useful documents.

Check out the IUCN Protected Area best practice guidelines, there are now over 20 publications in the series: http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_capacity2/gpap_bpg/

Check out this 2014 paper on the role of protected areas in supplying critical ecosystem services in drylands: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14888386.2014.928790#.VLOWOXv-Xqk

see Willem W. Verstraeten. I think he published some comments about  vegetation in semi-arid ecosystems

Hi Mounir. Since I guess your question is more specifically about drylands, I suggest you to take a look on the many documents generated by the LADA project. The project is now over but I guess you can still find a lot of relevent material: http://www.fao.org/nr/lada/

You may also check UNCCD databases..

Please ask obut this a specialist from Egypt :

Prof. Dr. Monier M. Abd El-Ghani

The Herbarium-Botany Department

Faculty of Science-Cairo University

Giza - EGYPT

Monier El-Ghani [[email protected]]

wishes

Adam R

Try "The Kruger Experience" (2003) by Du Toit, Rogers & Biggs (eds)....

https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=g2A2KMVolVIC&pg=PA57&dq=The+Kruger+Experience+by+Du+Toit,+Rogers+%26+Biggs+(eds)&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YcW2VNWjO4izmwWq04LADA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=The%20Kruger%20Experience%20by%20Du%20Toit%2C%20Rogers%20%26%20Biggs%20(eds)

Dear Mounir Louhaichi,

I don't know in which region you are particularly interested, but for China and Central Asia (including an international perspective), the following book might be interesting:

Chen Y., Jessel B., Fu B., Yu X., Pittock J. (eds.) 2014: Ecosystem Service and Management Strategy in China. Springer, Berlin etc.

Best regards

Frank Thomas

Dear Mounir

Do you mean short term protected area (rest) mainly used in rangelands restoration or long term protection (natural reserves, national parks, ...). Management tools are different.

You should visit web pages for Mexico's National Protected Areas Comission (www.conanp.gob.mx), and National Biodiversity Conservsation and Use Comission (www.conabio.gob.mx) Both include quite a lot of relevant documents, and in the second one you'll also find raw data pertaining biodiversity conservation and monitoring projects.

Dear Azaiez,

This is long term protection as requested by our colleagues from Kuwait.

Best, Mounir

We have several managment plans for protected áreas in arid and semi-arid  ecosistems in México. If you can read spanish, please consult them at the web page http://www.conanp.gob.mx/que_hacemos/programa_manejo.php

click on

RB El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar

RB Barranca de Metztitlán

RB Sierra La Laguna

RB Mapimí

RB Tehuacán-Cuicatlán

APFF Médanos de Samalayuca

APFF Valle de los Cirios

Olga Demina & Tatiana Bragina. Fundamental basis for the conservation of biodiversity of the Black Sea-Kazakh steppes// Hacquetia, 13/1. 2014. P. 215-228.

The southwestern US is arid or semi-arid (including western Texas to southern California, most of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, western Colorado, eastern Oregon), it has a lot of federal land. The federal land is divided into many land units and each unit is managed by an agency.  The agencies with the most land to manage are the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service,  the Department of Defense, and the National Park Service. (http://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/printable/fedlands.html)

Every federal land unit has a management plan and (except for some units managed by the Department of Defense) all of these plans are free and posted on the internet. So are the associated Environmental Impact Statements (very informative).  Most of the land is multiple use, so the plans deal with reconciling endangered species protection and other conservation issues with recreation, grazing, etc.

Perhaps Kuwait is most like the Mojave Desert?  In that case, for example, take a look at

http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/cdd/wemo.html

http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/cdd/nemo.html

http://www.fws.gov/nevada/desert_tortoise/documents/recovery_plan/rrp%20for%20the%20mojave%20desert%20tortoise%20-%20may%202011.pdf

http://www.nps.gov/deva/parkmgmt/planning.htm

http://www.nps.gov/moja/parkmgmt/planning.htm

These are just examples; even for just the Mojave Desert there are many more.

Norma Fowler

The IUCN provides a series of best practice guidelines on PA management (see https://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_capacity2/gpap_bpg/

Also see https://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/gpap_home/gpap_capacity2/gpap_pub/?10867/Conserving-Drylands-Biodiversity

Dear Louhaichi,

You can surf Journal of Arid Environmental (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-arid-environments/). There you'll find papers a lot about conservation in that arid habitats. Good luck.

Best regards.