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Global Land Outlook
… land management practices. Our ability to manage trade-offs at a landscape scale will ultimately decide the … we plan, use, and manage the land. Our ability to manage trade-offs at a landscape scale will ultimately decide the … The rapid expansion of global value chains and associated trade in land commodities (and their “virtual” components) …
Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services : Guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas
… with the conservation objectives of the site, however. Trade-offs between the ongoing provision of ES and … for monitoring sites Reveal synergies and possible trade-offs between ES and/or ES and conservation objectives … land or water use scenario. It can also help elucidate trade-offs and synergies between alternative resource use …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… systems will be necessary to ensure that unintended trade-offs are not created (UNEP 2004a; 2011a; 2012). The … water loss through evapotranspiration. Thus, there is a trade-off between a more constant supply of water and a … Wetlands restoration in most cases involves a number of trade-offs, providing improved state of water related …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… 24 2.4.6 International Trade in … measures in all developmental activities such as trade, transport, agriculture, industrial development, … course of action. The 1973 Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an example. The parties to CITES may trade with nonparties only if the latter substantially …
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… and illegal plant collecting for the traditional medicine trade. By 2003, the Newlands Forest section of the park was … Although local divers harvest the abalone, this lucrative trade is controlled by a crime syndicate believed to be based … under Appendix III of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), …
The Ecosystem Approach: Island voices Island choices
… forces, including external economic shocks, globalization, trade liberalization and natural disasters, remained the … would be required as would better opportunities for trade, access to environmentally sound technologies, a … from least developed country status n Globalization and trade liberalization n Sustainable capacity development and …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… Forestry Research CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CMS … protected under international law (for example, CITES for trade, CMS for migratory species, Ramsar for international … is set, and companies are permitted to sell, or ‘trade’, the unused portion of their limits to other companies …
Cost and benefits of ecosystem based adaptation: The case of the Philippines
… options and resilience), or economic (globalization, trade, markets). Furthermore, the crisis is likely to impact … Coinciding with the precautionary principle, by decreasing trade-offs, EbA further lowers risks by reducing … were successful and there were quite a few negative trade-offs, because many plantations were on mudflats and sea …
Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities - Lessons learned and guidelines for implementation
… of natural habitats 1 A dry and dusty northeasterly trade wind, of the same name, which blows from the Sahara … involvement and demonstrating impacts. Hence, a trade- off needs to be found between research requirements … implemented across the case studies indicates potential trade-offs particularly between practice and science. This is …