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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 … zone of coastlines and estuaries, but are mostly common to tropical and sub-tropical coastal areas. They are, therefore, particularly … Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related …
Assessing the international forest regime
… 1. International Tropical Timber … by desertification and drought to develop a sustainable ecosystem approach to managing their forests, and other … may become more acute once the IFF ends. The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) has also reoriented …
Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration
… restoration ITTO Technical Series No 23 International Tropical Timber Organization Restoring Forest Landscapes 2 … restoration ITTO Technical Series No 23 The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) has been promoting forest … framework to sustainable forest management and the ecosystem approach in landscapes where forest loss has caused …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… . . . . . . . . . 86 Box 5–7 Possums and Tree Kangaroos in tropical rainforest remnants, North Queensland, Australia . . … 7–2 Edge disturbance and the width of habitat corridors in tropical forests . . . . 138 Box 7–3 The Talamanca–Caribbean … World Parks Congress, together with the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, and with the full agreement of the IUCN …
Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories
… maintaining genetic resources, protecting important ecosystem functions and helping to protect many fragile human … numbers of trees: forest ecosystems include dense tropical moist forests, sparsely-covered dry tropical forests, a wide array of temperate forest types and …
Recognizing the indigenous territories as conservation areas in the Amazon Basin
… Basin CONSIDERING that the Amazon Basin is the largest tropical forest ecosystem in the world, covering an area of 7.8 million km2, … the Amazonian indigenous territories are formed of the tropical forests in which indigenous peoples live out their …
Protection of primary forests, including intact forest landscapes
… landscapes, play in maintaining biodiversity, providing ecosystem goods and services on which human society depends, … water; FURTHER NOTING that intact forest landscapes in tropical, temperate and boreal biomes contain globally … intact forest landscapes, continues at very high rates in tropical, temperate and boreal forests; FURTHER NOTING that …
Towards a mutually supportive relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Trade Organisation: An action guide
… are discussed below. Decision V/6 on applying the ecosystem approach is of general significance. Principle 4 of … traditional forest-related knowledge. The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) administers the International Tropical Timber Agreement, a commodity agreement. The ITTO …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… and poverty 81 Multiple scales and multiple levels 81 The ecosystem approach 82 The landscape concept 84 Application to … Wunder (2001), for example, argues that the potential of tropical forests to lift people out of poverty is very … and M. Hobley. 1991. National Experiences in Managing Tropical and Sub-tropical Dry Forests: Representative Cases …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… Criminal Police Organization ITTO International Tropical Timber Organization IUCN International Union for … Organization of the United Nations and International Tropical Timber Organization, Best Practices for Improving … Without demand for exotic pets, furniture made from tropical timber, food containing rare animals or plants, …