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Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 8 - Cultural values
… and numerous other goods and values – nowadays termed ‘ecosystem services’ – have been similarly esteemed through … be assessed economically. Factsheet 8 in a series of 10 ecosystem services Wetland At El Rocío, a small town on the … years, closer collaboration between traditional land-management techniques and western science have seen …
Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 5 Cultural heritage -- a management challenge
… once a week. While there are numerous such examples of management practices that remain relatively unchan- ged, many … practices which have brought poverty, conflict and ecosystem deterioration. The solution The rich cultural … and damaged the ecological char- acter of the wetland ecosystem. Support from the Ramsar Small Grants Fund helped …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… Community Protocols in the Context of Payment for Ecosystem Services CHAPTER 7 Bio-cultural Jurisprudence The … BCP Bio-cultural Community Protocol BMC Biodiversity Management Committee CBD Convention on Biological Diversity … Managed Protected Area COP Conference of Parties ESS Ecosystem Services FAO Food and Agriculture Organization FCPF …
Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… strategic actions 25 2.1 General, conservation and management objectives 25 2.2 Guidance on the general … aspects such as water management, human health and other ecosystem ser- vices). At the beginning of the current … One of the significant challenges in any discussion of ecosystem management and conser- vation is to maintain …
Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing
… to be a concrete example for valuing biodiversity and its ecosystem services, and for taking proper account of this … whole in a global legal instrument. It is based on a broad ecosystem approach rather than the sectoral approach … community conserved areas, or areas under no conservation management regime); ! the types of subsequent use proposed …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… and restore the health and integrity of the Earth’s ecosystem. In view of the different contributions to global … Africa and the Control of their Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa, which requires … to combating the introduction of exogenous species into an ecosystem. Article V(4) of the 1976 Convention on …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… (TK) includes expertise in the selection, storage, use and management of seed. This knowledge is vital for understanding … to organic farming; and focusing from the individual farm ecosystem to community/agro-ecosystem wide conversion. Technical support and information …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… lesson examines the importance of crop diversity to agro-ecosystem resilience and food security, and underscores the … diversity, and the importance of that diversity to agro-ecosystem resilience and food security. The farmer is viewed … including customary institutions for agro-ecological management, festivities and associated knowledge systems. In …
Guidance: Rapid Cultural Inventories for Wetlands
… titulada “Guidelines for the Rapid Assessment of Cultural Ecosystem Services” (Guía para la evaluación rápida de los … H (2015). Guidelines for the Rapid Assessment of Cultural Ecosystem Services (Guía para la evaluación rápida de los … A., Phillips, B., y Stroud, D. A. (2008). (Wetland management planning: a guide for site managers. …
Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 8 Wetlands -- a cultural landscape for learning and leisure
… as a working example of shrimp ponds, gei wai, a management technique practiced in coastal areas of Asia for … in many countries in the Mediterranean. Maintaining these management prac- tices not only preserves the cultural … as a working example of shrimp ponds, gei wai, using a management technique prac- ticed in coastal areas of Asia for …