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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… (SRC), Korea National Park Service); Aila Keto (Australian Rainforest Conservation Society Inc, Australia); Hans Kiener … although deforestation has been the dominant process in tropical forest during the last 20 years there has been a substantial increase in tropical secondary forest due to primarily passive …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… vi vii EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone ETPMC Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor ICRROM International Centre … Initiative (Y2Y) in North America to the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor (ETPMC or CMAR in Spanish) … protected areas and biodiversity conservation, World Rainforest Movement and Forest Peoples Programme. Corrigan, …
In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
… 25 Mangroves and coral reefs on tropical coastlines of the … dramatically drawing attention to the vulnerability of tropical coastal ecosystems and the dangers of undermining … Hydrobiologica 295: 311-321. Ruitenbeek, J. 1992. The rainforest supply price: a tool for evaluating rainforest …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… General Equilibrium CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture CIFOR Center for International Forestry … Payments for Ecosystem Services ITTO International Tropical Timber Organization IUCN International Union for … Strengthening CDM capacity in Latin America The Rainforest Alliance has a good list of publications: …
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… Restoring the marshlands of Iraq 93 6.11 The Springbrook Rainforest Project: Restoring World Heritage rainforests in … Tijuca National Park, covered by almost entirely restored tropical rainforest, is managed jointly by the national and … and ocean. The terrain is mountainous; the climate is tropical and monsoonal. In the face of a growing population …
Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… Meteorology and Environmental Surveys) of Colombia, CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) … of plants and animals associated with diEBAck of humid tropical forest. Massive degradation of ecosystem services … Madagascar: southern spiny forest, western dry forest and rainforest. In addition, CI has been testing a large scale …
Global Land Outlook
… and form early towns and cities. The landscapes of the neo-tropical dry forests of South America, for instance, played a … that spreads far beyond the boundaries of the city.26 Tropical deforestation has, for instance, been positively … of productivity decline or instability in the tropical rainforest areas are more diffuse. The north-eastern …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… the island (Hispaniola). This was followed by hurricane/ tropical storm Jeanne, which affected the island in … frequent natural hazards in the region are hurricanes, tropical storms, low-pressure systems, floods, landslides, … ecosystem to the Indo-Burma hotspot, Heart of Borneo rainforest ecosystem and the Coral Triangle ecosystem. The …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… 6-8 August, 2008: Alejandro Iza (IUCN ELC), Carina Bracer (Tropical América Katoomba Group), Miguel Pulgar Vidal … quite diverse, with semiarid and mountainous landscapes, tropical and subtropical plains, and climates varying from … This area includes some Andean regions and especially the rainforest. Popula- tion density here is very low. In this …