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Global Warming of 1.5°C - an IPPC special report on the impacts of global warming

… 2°C (medium confidence). This indicates that the area at risk is projected to be approximately 50% lower at 1.5°C … tundra and boreal forests are particularly at risk of climate change-induced degradation and loss, with … and avoided degradation and deforestation, biodiversity management, sustainable aquaculture, and local knowledge and …
21 Jun 2026 Literature

Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas

… of two of IUCN’s Commissions: the Commission on Ecosystem Management and the World Commission on Protected Areas. The … 3: Biodiversity Loss and Species Extinction – Managing Risk in a Changing World 16 Coping with Climate Change in the … 3) Biodiversity loss and species extinction – managing risk in a changing world 4) Markets, business and the …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… Flawed in theory? 27 New-generation ICDPs 29 Collaborative management 29 Community-based conservation 29 Sustainable use … or development. In cases where conservation activities risk making poor people worse off, there are ethical and … unavoidable, especially when conservation activities risk negatively affecting poor people by transferring the …
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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… a variety of public and private stake- holders in resource management, to decentralization of government institutions … are choices necessitating decisions not only about how risk should be regulated, how much protection is enough, which risk should be regulated, how much to spend in controlling …
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Water as a human right?

… and international society is critical for ensuring better management and planning for meeting basic water needs. The … present and future generations through careful planning or management, as appropriate.” 30 Preamble, United Nations. … World population, water use, and irrigated area 84 3. (Mis)management of water “The water crisis is essentially a crisis …
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Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies

… and update of the ZICGC experience in participatory management and integrated development of protected areas in … and social criteria, though they then run the risk of being eliminated due to their lack of competitiveness … not integrate the global economic dynamic, they faced the risk of being left aside and further exploited by rich …
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