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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… Pérez, Bernal Herrera Fernández and Roberto Cazzolla Gatti Building Resilience to Climate Change About IUCN IUCN, … 2007). Adaptive The ability of a system to adjust to Capacity climate change (including climate variability and … a system is exposed, its sensitivity and its adaptive capacity (CBD, 2009; Eakin and Lemos, 2010; see Fig. 1). …
Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities - Lessons learned and guidelines for implementation
… Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) through the International … It is also important to empower local people through capacity building and to engage them in project design, … (through consultation meetings and Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment workshops) as well as implementation and …
The Ecosystem Approach: Island voices Island choices
… of its members, networks and partners to enhance their capacity and to support global alliances to safeguard natural … meet these challenges and lack the required institutional capacity to adjust to emerging economic and environmental … emphasis on education and awareness-raising, capacity building, and country-specific and nationally-driven …
Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas Developing capacity for a protected planet Best Practice Protected Area … drawn from across IUCN. Applied in the field, they are building institutional and individual capacity to manage protected area systems effectively, …
African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas
… as one of the most vulnerable, due to its limited adaptive capacity. Yet, there remains hope for the application of … where and how these work, a suite of solutions and building blocks of successful approaches can be drawn out … both mitigation services through their sequestration capacity in soils and biomass, and adaptation services, …
Establishing marine protected area networks
… recovering wildlife and ecosystem processes; and o work on building networks should start now if we are to accomplish … that it will guide the entities involved in building the capacity they needed to deliver such networks.Without … Adaptive management can be used to improve management capacity and effectiveness, particularly through professional …
Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges
… learned from these cases and discusses the importance of building an evidence base for NbS in order to support future … values and enhance the resilience of ecosystems, their capacity for renewal and the provision of services. NbS are … platform to collate, share and generate knowledge and capacity for sustainable management and equitable governance …