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Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types
… Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types by Sue Stolton, … to be restored to such a state, with relatively low risk of successful invasions by non-native species. Role in … Leaving a protected area completely alone may be a high risk option in the face of rapid environmental change. …
Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks
… Managing MIDAs Harmonising the management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar … and the World Heritage Centre)22 or tool kits for disaster risk reduction (currently in the planning stage for UNESCO … and sites that are specifically recognised as being at risk (that is, Ramsar Sites listed on the Montreux Record, or …
International ocean governance: Using international law and organisations to manage marine resources sustainably (revised)
… 11 Institutional Roles: Risk Assessment – IAEA, GESAMP, IFCS, IOMC, OECD … for Damage — II.B.7. II.B.2. Dumping and Wastes Management … 45 III.A.1. The Role of Law in Ocean Management … prevention, broadly defined). Institutional Roles: Risk Assessment The major international institutional …
Volta River Basin Ghana & Burkina Faso - Transboundary water management through multi-level participatory governance and community projects
… Volta River Basin Ghana & Burkina Faso Transboundary water management through multi-level participatory governance and … with riparian states to improve water governance andwater management practices. This has resulted in multi-scale participatory governance frameworks for joint management of water resources and improvement of livelihoods …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… xv Chapter One Sustaining Ecosystems through Better Water Management for Climate Change Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . … the most adequate administrative unit and outplaying the risk of harming due to non-coordinated adaptation efforts. … (e.g., water management, energy, agriculture, health, risk management, biodiversity conservation, etc.) and levels …
Negotiate: reaching agreement over water
… is an action programme to demonstrate that ecosystem-based management and stakeholder participation will help to solve … on defining who seeks a reward, claims a right, bears a risk or holds a respon- sibility. Keeping a focus on the 4Rs … to define: who seeks a reward, claims a right, bears a risk, or holds a responsibility. Answering these questions is …
Improving governance of pastoral lands
… Entretantos Foundation / IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management Jennifer Mohamed-Katerere IUCN Commission on … SECTION 10 IMPROVING GOVERNANCE OF PASTORAL LANDS High-risk factors The presence of a number of high-risk factors should prompt a responsible investor to decide …
Transitioning to a pollution-free planet
… dual track of actions: • Targeted interventions, based on risk assessments and scientific evidence of impacts, to … in enabling and guiding actions and including pollution management into development agendas, states and local … pollutants based on what could be done to reduce their risk to human health and ecosystems. Possible near-term …
Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application
… 2009a); and 2009 EC Guidance document No. 24 River Basin Management in a Changing Climate (EC, 2009b). EC Floods … circumstances. or minimum amount. While this spreads the risk of water stress among all basin states (in both wet and … dry conditions), it puts downstream users at particular risk if upstream developmental changes occur, since their …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Coordination of MPA participatory management with other decision-making bodies . . 49 Stronger … debate about the principles. Transparency reduces the risk of political manipulation or unfair criticism. The … may reproduce social inequities, of course, is a risk that evaluators cannot ignore. Finally, the framework …