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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, …
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 …
Global Land Outlook
… Without better adaptation strategies and resilience building devoted to responsibly managing and restoring our … together, further jeopardizes resilience and adaptive capacity, particularly for the rural poor who depend most on … 2. Resilience building: enhancing the adaptive capacity of communities and ecosystems through a mix of …
Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas
… of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Building on strong foundations The Mountain Partnership is … reducing poverty in mountain areas because it builds the capacity of local people to solve mountain problems. Policy … joint resolution of common problems such as forest fires; capacity building through knowledge transfer; and building of …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… national, regional and global levels” (UNEP 2010). The capacity of GI to build resilience to climate shocks and … investments in GI have been identified as one of the main building blocks of a transition to a Green Economy. UNEP’s … receiving pollution loads that exceed its assimilative capacity may deteriorate and no longer be able to provide …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… and skype. These individuals served in their personal capacity as steering and advisory group members and authors, … also consider the role of connectivity conservation for building natural resilience of protected areas and for … tools, and approaches for providing the necessary legal capacity to implement connectivity conservation. It begins by …