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… GREEN Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related … extensive damage to infrastructure and inhabited areas vulnerable to floods (EC 2011). Establishing or conserving … setback levees are exposed to floodwaters they are less vulnerable to erosion. http://nature.ly/floodofbenefits 30 …

… and poverty 81 Multiple scales and multiple levels 81 The ecosystem approach 82 The landscape concept 84 Application to … to the general public good only at the expense of vulnerable peoples’ livelihoods, thus inadvertently … been very high and unevenly distributed, with poor and vulnerable groups “likely to bear a disproportionate share of …

… World Parks Congress, together with the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, and with the full agreement of the IUCN … 1993a). Nature reserves and woodland fragments are also vulnerable to this degradation. Sizes of habitat patches … fragments with a high ratio of perimeter to area are more vulnerable to edge disturbance processes than are large …

… and creating future options to adjust and further optimize ecosystem goods and services as societal needs change or new … • Allow for multiple benefits. Aim to generate a suite of ecosystem goods and services by intelligently and … of FLR: • Improve the resilience and productivity of vulnerable forest land • Control erosion and improve …

… out outside concession boundaries or in particularly vulnerable areas, such as steep slopes, river banks or water … quently inspected by government officials are particularly vulnerable to unauthorized logging of this kind. Another … penalties may be seen as soft targets and may thus be more vulnerable to illegal activity. It would therefore seem …

… maintaining genetic resources, protecting important ecosystem functions and helping to protect many fragile human … protection is an incidental consequence, and is vulnerable to political change. 4. Other conserved forests … uneconomic forests can become valuable (and hence vulnerable) if the price of timber changes or if technology …

… framework to sustainable forest management and the ecosystem approach in landscapes where forest loss has caused … environmental security of poor people living or working in vulnerable locations. Box 3.1 The double filter as the basis … Adequate environmental security for people living in vulnerable locations such as upland valleys requires not only …

… and valuation 6 Small enterprise development 8 Markets for ecosystem services 9 Trade and supply chains 10 Infl uencing … a particularly important economic role for poorer and more vulnerable groups. In northern Zambia miombo woodland … economic analysis gives little weight to forest ecosystem values which lie outside formal markets and pricing …

… by desertification and drought to develop a sustainable ecosystem approach to managing their forests, and other … use of biological diversity ... in other environmentally vulnerable areas...; and 48 The objective of the Operational … use of biological diversity...in other environmentally vulnerable areas... 2; and (a) Projects that promote the …