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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 … basin comprises the slopes of the Aberdare and Mount Kenya mountain ranges in the eastern part of the catchment, from … US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Gartner, T., Mulligan, J., …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… . . . . 80 Box 5–5 Rock-scree corridor and tunnel for the Mountain Pygmy-possum in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . … World Parks Congress, together with the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, and with the full agreement of the IUCN … of tropical rainforest, from the coastal lowlands to the mountain range. In the wet beech forests of New Zealand, …
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 … to help restore areas of forest. IUCN Category V Sugarloaf Mountain, Brecon Beacons National Park, UK The woods on the side of the mountain are owned and managed as a nature reserve by the …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… Therefore, broadly speaking, the urban forest is an ecosystem that not only includes vegetation1 but also soil, … lands, DENR Administrative Order No. 13, 1992 South Africa Mountain Catchment Areas Act, 1995 National Forest Act, No. … (ii) watershed management (especially cities in mountain areas); (iii) urban and peri-urban agriculture; (iv) …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… aimed to identify priority areas for conserving the ecosystem and collating and sharing information on … process for managing the landscape. Mae Nang Khao Mountain, in Kuraburi district, Phang Nga Province is a … to the communities that surround it. At its base, the mountain is surrounded by seven villages. The predominant …
Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)
… and creating future options to adjust and further optimize ecosystem goods and services as societal needs change or new … the conservation and sustainable management of mesophyll mountain forest: areas that present threats for the … conservation of, or opportunities for the management of, mountain mesophyll forest. Alongside this digital mapping …
Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… Thus, implementing the UNCCD contributes to support an ecosystem approach to sustainable forest management as part … and the law 39 Under the 2004 Ministerial Regulation on Ecosystem Restoration in Production Forest Areas, forest … of veldfires (defined as including veld, forest and mountain fires) in areas which have uniform fire risk or …
Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
… conservation of biodiversity and the provision of other ecosystem services. More recently, information on changes in … the impact of climate change and providing other key ecosystem services. To help realize the contribution of … United Kingdom), Heino Polley (Institute of Forest Ecosystem, Germany), Enrico Pompei (Italian Forest Service, …
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 … values from ngitili 68 Box 11. Principles of the ecosystem approach 82 Box 12. The Yali Falls Dam and … in Kenya. London: John Wiley. Turnbull, C. 1974. The Mountain People. London: Picador. UDRSS/VALEURS. 2002. The …
Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration
… framework to sustainable forest management and the ecosystem approach in landscapes where forest loss has caused a decline in the quality of ecosystem services. It doesn’t aim to re-establish pristine … Global Programme. He has extensive field experience in ecosystem conservation and management at the global level and …