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Cost and benefits of ecosystem based adaptation: The case of the Philippines
… solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development. Working with many partners and … (e.g. carbon sequestration and water quality). The average yield increase was 79%, depending on crop type, and all crops … temperatures, as indicated by the number of days with maximum temperature exceeding 350C, will continue to become …
Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… stimuli. The effect may be direct (e.g. a change in crop yield in response to a change in the mean, range or … people depend to adapt to climate change, EbA integrates sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services in a … and delivers contrasting total rainfall patterns and maximum intensities. In general, with greater intensities of …
Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities - Lessons learned and guidelines for implementation
… solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development. Working with many partners and … showed similar results, noting for example that sorghum yield with zaï alone was 1290 Kg/ha while it was 1330 Kg/ha … used to determine different avalanche patterns such as maximum runouts and maximum impact pressures for the current …
Safeguarding the contribution of wild living resources and ecosystems to food security
… and food security of the poor and vulnerable, as well as sustainable development and poverty reduction more broadly … “Maintain or restore stocks to levels that can produce the maximum sustainable yield with the aim of achieving these goals for depleted …
Review of laws, policies and economic instruments related to payment for ecosystem services in Vietnam
… Programme (ARBCP). The goal of ARBCP is to improve the sustainable management of natural resources and the … dry timber, and dead trees, and to harvest bamboo with a maximum cutting intensity of 30% when the forest cover … reaches 80%; • harvest timber by selective cutting with a maximum cutting intensity of 20% of the total stand volume, …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… 236 12.5.1 Cebu Resolution on Sustainable Development, 2006: Haze ......................... … urging governments to act, but sometimes they are seeking maximum results rather than achievable provisions at a given … spawning stock level that produces maximum sustainable yield’; see NASCO, supra note 60, s.6. 67 NASCO, Progress …
Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)
… and regional Red Lists to inform conservation planning and sustainable development. For more information on the IUCN Red … CEM is ultimately responsible for appointing members to a maximum four-year term, which expires at the following … At sea level, average annual rainfall is 1,717 mm, with a maximum of 2,886 mm and a minimum of 998 mm (Mueller-Dombois …
Global Land Outlook
… approach to land use, management, and planning for sustainable development and human security. Finally, this … Revolution” of the early 1970s witnessed significant yield increases coupled with greater intensity of fertilizer … both to increase overall well-being and to ensure maximum efficiency. Food justice is thus about far more than …
Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges
… One landowner’s approach to forest restoration and sustainable management … and biodiversity are preserved and enhanced, where maximum green infrastructure (GI) and connectivity are achieved as well as maximum social and environmental services from GI, and a city …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… law and policy tools 77 3.1 National conservation and sustainable use legislation 82 3.1.1 Conservation policies … to the migratory species [..]; (h) elimination of, to the maximum extent possible, or compensation for activities and … this end, the Parties shall,” among other things, “to the maximum extent possible, take all necessary measures to …