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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, … Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field Building Resilience to Climate Change Ecosystem-based … Natural Change and Human Impact in Madagascar. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington DC, USA. Hannah, L., R. Dave, …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… 5 1.3 The legal and policy component of the capacity building project ............................. 7 1.3.1 Method … of the legal and policy component of the capacity building project … agent on behalf of the proponents. Any professional institution engaged to prepare a water and soil conservation …
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… drawn from across IUCN. Applied in the field, they are building institutional and individual capacity to manage … protected areas: in Finland, for example, the Land Use and Building Act as amended in 2000 specifically authorizes … species collected from the wild. In contrast, another institution, the Hong Kong Museum of History, devotes one of …
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 … NGOs, local government agencies and a national research institution. The Climate Resilience Evaluation for Adaptation … local government, 10 technical partners and one research institution) were provided training on Eco-DRR using …
Global Land Outlook
… Without better adaptation strategies and resilience building devoted to responsibly managing and restoring our … | Executive Summary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Land is an essential building block of civilization, yet its contribution to our … and biodiversity for future generations. 2. Resilience building: enhancing the adaptive capacity of communities and …
Cost and benefits of ecosystem based adaptation: The case of the Philippines
… for shoreline protection of USD 206,621, as compared to building a seawall, which provided avoided damages of USD … of mangrove protection and re-plantation, as compared to building a seawall, was undertaken by a Conservation … highest avoided damages as compared to replanting them or building the seawall. The Net Present Value (NPV), the …
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 … These can be divided into two broad categories: (i) building the knowledge base for NbS; and (ii) putting NbS … Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety of Germany under the …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… also consider the role of connectivity conservation for building natural resilience of protected areas and for … Conservation – A Concept Paper 25 IUCN-EPLP No. 85 Building conservation awareness and collaboration. Once the … including goals and general standards for the responsible institution(s); • providing for a clear organizational …
The Ecosystem Approach: Island voices Island choices
… emphasis on education and awareness-raising, capacity building, and country-specific and nationally-driven … Goals through, among other initiatives, partnership building. Of particular relevance for SIDS, Capacity 2015 … local, national and international activities and by building from existing initiatives. In particular, the …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… investments in GI have been identified as one of the main building blocks of a transition to a Green Economy. UNEP’s … digging) (BalticDeal 2012), as well as the local costs of building materials, labour and appropriate plants. A very … solution to control riverine flooding is the building of levees and thus the disconnection of rivers from …