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World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources … can work together to forge and implement solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development. … Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation. …
Global Land Outlook
… With our current trends in production, urbanization, and environmental degradation, we are losing and wasting too much … human habitation. Land degradation decreases resilience to environmental stresses: increased vulnerability, especially … and in the process externalized their ecological footprint.17 Meanwhile, economic thought underwent its own …
Nature-based solutions to address climate change
… regret” actions, as they bring about combined benefits at environmental, economic and social level. The role of natural … the “INTEGRE” project (Territorial initiative for regional environmental management). This issue is critical in islands … energy savings and developing renewable and low carbon footprint energies, while taking into account biodiversity …
Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts
… of Energy & Climate Change Group, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law); and, Eva Zabey (Ecosystems and Water, … are harnessed and employed makes energy use a critical environmental issue as often its sourcing, production, … perspectives. However, the energy sector’s ecological footprint as a result of exploration, extraction and …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… 3 Background theory: ecological economics vs. environmental economics … services’ has recently risen to the forefront of environmental discussions. Studied extensively in the … of Net Primary Production (HANPP) and the ecological footprint. The author offers a framework for measuring …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… vulnerabilities. It is thus important to integrate environmental management into post-disaster activities • … society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts which exceeds the ability of … of risks and vulnerabilities. It is well recognised that environmental degradation exacerbates vulnerabilities and can …
Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,200 government … Research Equilibrium Research promotes positive environmental and social change by linking targeted research … Redford, A.V. Wannebo and G. Woolmer (2002). ‘The human footprint and the last of the wild’. Bioscience 52: 891–904. …