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Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects GUIDE FOR WATER MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This guide is a product of … United Nations Environment Programme Publication: Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based …
Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities - Lessons learned and guidelines for implementation
… Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities Editors: Fabiola Monty, … https://twitter.com/IUCN/ About IUCN Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities Editors: Fabiola Monty, … S. and Buyck, C. (eds). 2017. Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities: lessons learned and …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… input with lessons from the Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) project. A special … decades and more so in rich countries, mainly due to infrastructure loss (The World Bank, 2010). With the … vulnerability, for example, level of poverty, quality of infrastructure, etc. (Renaud et al., 2013): Disaster Risk = …
Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… mere technological options mainly focused at building hard infrastructure and other similar measures. Recent studies … vegetation cover. Higher costs and negative impacts on infrastructure, health and ecosystem services due to e.g. … agriculture, water resource management, development, and infrastructure, among others, and applied to different …
Global Land Outlook
… alternative livelihoods and are often excluded from wider infrastructure and economic development. The scale of rural … land, usually with water rights and access to transport infrastructure, as a hedge against future price volatility … to climate stress, and therefore excluded from wider infrastructure and economic development. Land degradation …
Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas
… in the resources that attract tourists; not just physical infrastructure, but also landscapes and cultures. A key … quantity, the sedimentation of reservoirs and irrigation infrastructure, reduced agricultural productivity, and severe … in the water sector focus on constructing and maintaining infrastructure to abstract, store, and distribute water. This …
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2 - A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
… by tourism impacts than in 2014). Pressure from planned infrastructure development is increasing Major development … sites which could be significantly affected by hydropower infrastructure development has grown from 13 to 17 and by … apparent impact affecting a site’s values, such as built infrastructure, invasive species, tourism or natural …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… for climate change adaptation that complement other hard infrastructure solutions and are largely dependent on … monitoring the number of settlements and households; 3) infrastructure/ access (for example, construction of roads, … management, mining) and others responsible for providing infrastructure (for example, roads, electricity). These …