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Desertification: the invisible frontline
… is either highly or moderately degraded. Drylands are more vulnerable to natural and human destruction due to the small … households that depend on rainfed agriculture are most vulnerable to drought because they cannot absorb the losses. … InITIaTIves the climatic effects on land occur at ecosystem and landscape levels. therefore, individual and …
Strategic Report: Environment, Peace and Security - a Convergence of Threats
… entity to generate profits, which results in harm to our ecosystem, by damaging environmental quality, hastening … it leads to serious implications for the development of vulnerable communities, peace and security. 8 Taking up the … on the impact of environmental crime on the development of vulnerable communities with a direct link with the concepts …
The UNCCD: Laying the groundwork for future security (2014-2015)
… and strengthen the security, resilience and well-being of vulnerable populations. The secretariat and the Global … avoids further deforestation and cropland expansion into vulnerable areas should be a priority for action for policy … the same time reducing costs and increasing efficiencies. Ecosystem-based climate change adaptation at a landscape …
Environmental Security and the Role of Law
… of reconciling compet- ing water uses and protecting the ecosystem functions of the water resources. The papers that … heavily reliant on other countries, and particularly vulnerable to management decisions taken within those … the central area of Namibia’; and Botswana is ‘especially vulnerable as it ob- tains 94 percent of its fresh water from …
International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2014
… of reconciling compet- ing water uses and protecting the ecosystem functions of the water resources. The papers that … heavily reliant on other countries, and particularly vulnerable to management decisions taken within those … the central area of Namibia’; and Botswana is ‘especially vulnerable as it ob- tains 94 percent of its fresh water from …
Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation
… ecosystems, species and genes, together with the ecosystem processes which sustain them, and is the basis of … appropriate, to include conservation and management of ecosystem functions and services. 3 Biological diversity or … border regions and their inhabitants may be particularly vulnerable to encroachment, dispute and armed conflict, which …