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Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… the law A guide for national drafters based on the Fire Management Voluntary Guidelines by Elisa Morgera Maria Teresa … nature of fires determines whether their social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts are negative or positive. … study seeks to systematically identify the elements of sound legislation on forest fires, capitalizing on the …
Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
… 1.5 Indicators of sustainable forest management as core attributes to be assessed in national … and their changes is key to national and international environmental and developmental policy processes and is … grounded in nationally appropriate and scientifically sound practices that account for domestic information needs …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… Roda Verheyen, Jens Mackensen and Gerald Scholz IUCN Environmental Law Programme IUCN – The World Conservation … a small contribution to the promotion of environmentally sound and socially acceptable CDM AR project activities, in … Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol, revegetation, forest management, cropland management, and grazing land management …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… 18 4.4 Environmental legislation … 32 .................. 18 Box 8: National Environmental Management Act of South Africa, No. 107 of 1998, section 1 … living environment in cities. Healthy and environmentally sound agricultural activities and the provision of common …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… Flawed in theory? 27 New-generation ICDPs 29 Collaborative management 29 Community-based conservation 29 Sustainable use … 128 Debt-for-nature swaps 128 Conservation Trust Funds or Environmental Funds 129 Tobin-type and other taxes 129 … : L a n d s c a p e s , p e o p l e a n d p o w e r 108 If sound local decision-making is to be possible, local …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… use of forest resources can contribute to improved forest management and poverty alleviation. But, at least with … make a real difference to rural poverty, economic growth, environmental quality, human well-being as well as … is widely accepted and advocated as the basis of sound economic and resource management policy, although this …
Towards a mutually supportive relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Trade Organisation: An action guide
… IUCN Environmental Law Programme Towards a mutually supportive … 11 call on Parties to “adopt economically and socially sound measures that act as incentives for conservation and … the ecosystem in an economic context. Any such ecosystem-management programme should: (a) Reduce those market …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Natural history and wildlife management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 … designed to be out of reach of human development and environmental destruction. This concept was the basis of the … programmes. Thus, achieving conservation goals requires a sound understanding of both the biological and …
Assessing the international forest regime
… Forest Regime Edited by Richard G. Tarasofsky IUCN Environmental Law Centre IUCN Environmental Policy and Law … on species and biodiversity conservation and the management of habitats and natural resources. The Union has … it requires Parties to adopt economically and socially sound incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… on money-laundering issues, World Bank; David Higgins, Environmental Programme Manager, INTERPOL; Hui Fu, … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 1.3 Information management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … and target groups: • Governments, by providing them with a sound understanding of their responses to wildlife and forest …