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African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas
… Addressing resource degradation to enhance climate change resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … tool. By drawing on these experiences and the inherent resilience of natural ecosystems when effectively governed … to reduce vulnerability and increase natural and community resilience. This volume of case studies from Africa presents …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… areas that are needed to sustain and increase their resilience in the face of ongoing threats from development … the role of connectivity conservation for building natural resilience of protected areas and for climate change … Conservation, 2011; Bennett 2004, p. 6). Ecological resilience: the capacity of a system to withstand changes to …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… global levels” (UNEP 2010). The capacity of GI to build resilience to climate shocks and variability has already … and Batker 2012). Drought, however, can weaken the resilience of intact riparian vegetation and larger forest … the potential flood damage downstream and increase resilience to storms, thereby avoiding potential damage to …
Transboundary Conservation. A systematic and integrated approach
… for individual species. This in turn supports higher resilience within ecosystems and among species, and greater … which the birds migrate (UNEP/CMS Secretariat, 2010). 14 ‘Resilience refers to the ability of an ecosystem to maintain … grazing regimes; • Maintaining or strengthening ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change, in the case of …
Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)
… Marine and Coastal Ecosystems Steve Edwards, Vice Chair Resilience and Social Learning Red List of Ecosystems … interactions under criterion D. Variable Role in ecosystem resilience and function Example Species richness (the number … richness is related indirectly to ecosystem function and resilience through its correlations with functional …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… native species or improvement of habitats for greater resilience or authenticity.45 Conservation generally happens … Let me say that there is one major threat, today, to the resilience of the culture and ancestral rules for the use of … the representativeness, connectivity and hence the resilience of protected areas systems, while fostering …
EU Environmental Policies and Strategies in South-Eastern Europe - Training guidelines for involving CSOs from SEE in the implementation of EU nature-related legislation
… important functions in terms of providing increased resilience and adaptive capacity for vulnerable protected … of ecosystems in so far as possible to strengthen their resilience and sustain the key services that they provide, … of ecosystem goods and services, while increasing their resilience by addressing mitigation and adaptation to climate …
The Ecosystem Approach: Island voices Island choices
… 2015 will seek to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience in natural resource management, energy, health, … of the development process, and improving ecosystem resilience to change18. 18 Who responded? A total of 313 … issues in islands “Island systems, which have limited resilience, are in the front line with respect to global …