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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… extensive coral mining degrades reefs, waves were 10 m high and damages and flooding were up to 1.5 km inland. … cyclonic floods. In the past, storm surges and high winds have caused enormous human and economic … Rising Sea, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Seas Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. IPCC (2012). Managing the …
Protected Areas in East Asia: Evaluating and strengthening implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas and the East Asian Regional Action Plan
… Establishment of High Seas PAs … great arc of Japanese islands in the east and the tropical seas and coral reefs of the extreme south. It also boasts the … Asia makes up 20% of the world’s land mass has very high biodiversity, and protected areas (PAs) across 15% of …
Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation
… considerations 124 4.2 Nature of authority 125 4.2.1 High policy level 125 4.2.2 Lead protected areas agency 127 … Programme 234 3.3 Regional agreements 235 3.3.1 Regional Seas 235 3.3.2 OSPAR Convention 239 3.3.3 Helsinki Convention … between marine areas within national jurisdiction and the high seas 213 Box III(2)-2: South Africa’s first offshore MPA …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… and minerals, and a place of spir- itual nourishment. High precipitation, several altitudinal vegetation zones, its … of coppice Quercus frainetto and Quercus ilex to high forest, and has conducted a strate- gic Special … “Current knowledge of the cetacean fauna of the Greek Seas”, J. Cetacean Res. Manage. 5(3): 219-232. ��� Giannatos, …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… accelerate, the importance of protecting areas with a high degree of ecological integrity becomes ever more … carbon stocks (Martin and Watson 2016) or to ensure a high quality freshwater supply (Watson et al. 2016). … shown in dark green, with wilderness in the high seas (delineated using the same threshold) denoted by paler …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… 108 8.2.3 Wetland Conservation Under the Regional Seas Conventions 111 8.3 Considerations for Implementation at … in parts of Asia, coral reefs in the tropics and the high concentration of peatlands around the margins of the … essential communication links through water transport. The high productivity of wetlands mentioned above and the cycling …
Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… in April 2016, during an ongoing period of extremely high ocean temperatures.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … holders. One of the most important Protected areas having high physiographic diversity, such as Borjomi-Kharagauli … are larger in forests that are nearer to rivers than to seas; (3) tall mangroves had the highest carbon stocks, …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… drafts of the project: • Antonio Benjamin, Justice, High Court of Brazil [STJ]; Chair, IUCN World Commission on … is licensed to practice law as a Cape Town Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He has also worked in the NGO … of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish, and North Seas AWG-LCA Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative …
The green belt of Europe: From vision to reality
… – a green belt. Many of the larger adjacent areas are of high conservational value. It is the aim of the ‘Green Belt’ … region, with the aim of protecting transboundary areas of high ecological 1. A vision for the Green Belt in Europe 5 … European demarcation line at the Iron Curtain the need for high-quality infrastructure is growing in order to bring …