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Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects

… GREEN Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects GUIDE FOR WATER MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This guide is a … 4.6 Risk and uncertainty analysis … policy areas. For example, floodplains can reduce flood risk and simultaneously improve water quality, recharge …
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Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories

… for conservation. The IUCN system of Protected Area Management Categories is an important tool of conservation, … bring their own dangers. On the one hand, there is the risk that “protected area” becomes a term used so widely that … including the risks of genetic isolation, vulnerability to risk and climate change, and the limitations on natural …
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Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration

… Guidelines for the Restoration, Rehabilitation and Management of Degraded and Secondary Tropical Forests in … 4.3 What is meant by uncertainty and risk? ...............................................38 4.4 … importance as more and more people are living in high-risk areas and/or relying on degraded resources to sustain …
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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

… and Geographical Information Services, the Resource Management Support Centre of the Forestry Commission, and the … High Medium Low 0 500 km 0 500 km 0 500 km Deforestation risk High Medium Low Level of potential soil erosion High … High Medium Low 0 500 km 0 500 km 0 500 km Deforestation risk High Medium Low Level of potential soil erosion High …
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Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 1.3 Information management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … of institutional or social behaviour, run the risk of becoming unenforceable, irrelevant, and open … from the Management Authority with which to target high-risk consignments and travellers. The MOU also enables …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… Flawed in theory? 27 New-generation ICDPs 29 Collaborative management 29 Community-based conservation 29 Sustainable use … or development. In cases where conservation activities risk making poor people worse off, there are ethical and … unavoidable, especially when conservation activities risk negatively affecting poor people by transferring the …
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Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles

… Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol, revegetation, forest management, cropland management, and grazing land management … for two reasons: On the one hand, the inherent project risk of losing (parts of) the carbon sequestered falls back … applicable, information on, inter alia, hydrology, soils, risk of fires, pests and diseases;50 And on the …
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Assessing the international forest regime

… on species and biodiversity conservation and the management of habitats and natural resources. The Union has … of norms reflecting the lowest common denominator. This risk is particularly significant given the current lack of … a useful framework for managed trade in species which risk becoming threatened by trade. Although CITES has been …
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Towards a mutually supportive relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Trade Organisation: An action guide

… the ecosystem in an economic context. Any such ecosystem-management programme should: (a) Reduce those market … These disciplines are based on science and notions of risk assessment, which may not be entirely consistent with … a Member determines to be appropriate” pursuant to risk assessment procedures (Article 3.3). Article 5 sets out …
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Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation

… . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Natural history and wildlife management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 … by land use. On the other hand, if there is a distinct risk that isolated populations will decline and species … • supplement declining populations, thus reducing their risk of extinction; • allow re-establishment following local …
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