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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… constraints (particularly institutional limitations) and building opportunities; • identify causes of environmental … prized as a spiritually charged wilderness and for its capacity to uplift the human spirit. Such values, … included over-grazing and exceeding land’s carrying capacity, slash-and-burn agriculture, the impoverishment of …
Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas
… of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Building on strong foundations The Mountain Partnership is … reducing poverty in mountain areas because it builds the capacity of local people to solve mountain problems. Policy … joint resolution of common problems such as forest fires; capacity building through knowledge transfer; and building of …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… of local actors over natural resources and territories, capacity building in negotiation and decision-making processes, and … potential of resources, beginning with their differing capacity to meet social objectives such as economic growth …
Global Warming of 1.5°C - an IPPC special report on the impacts of global warming
… confidence). There are limits to adaptation and adaptive capacity for some human and natural systems at global warming … Box 12 in Chapter 5, Box 5.3} B6.3. Limits to adaptive capacity exist at 1.5°C of global warming, become more … and efficiency options in the transport, industry and building sector as well as carbon capture options in the …
Water as a human right?
… of its members, networks and partners to en- hance their capacity and to support global alliances to safeguard natural … everyone. Water as a Human Right? 22 109 Linda C. Reif, “Building Democratic Institutions: The Role of National Human … of ecosystems, adapting human activities within the capacity limits of nature and combating vectors of …