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Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… a specific natural monument, which can be a landform, sea mount, marine cavern, geological feature such as a cave, … sustainable natural resource management and where low-level non-industrial natural resource use compatible with … and ice has diminished, and global sea level has begun to rise. Human-induced global warming is caused primarily by an …
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… a specific natural monument, which can be a landform, sea mount, marine cavern, geological feature such as a cave, … sustainable natural resource management and where low-level non-industrial natural resource use compatible with … risk. The cities most immediately vulnerable to sea-level rise are Asian megacities sitting on subsiding river delta …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… spatial scales 21 Figure I(2)-1: Global temperature rise and projected impacts from climate change 30 Figure … 149 Figure II(4)-2: Maritime Zones under the UN Law of the Sea Convention 160 The Legal Aspects of Connectivity … hydrological flows, that operate at the landscape/seascape level. The conclusion: protected areas need to be integrated …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… have distinct characteristics of their own, which give rise to specific and di- verse problems that should be … to its beauti- ful landscapes and magnificent views of the sea and –still more significantly– to the fact that Dangun … to people in accord- ance with their status, gender and level of Painting of sea country. Gunda Muruwirri Painting of …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… values and the main trends they are undergoing at a global level, before explaining how the selection of the case … like mean- ing and purposes, slip through science like the sea slips though the nets of fishermen”. Yet, all human … development of society, particularly since the rise of the nation-state (Kraus, 1992). Another indicator of …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… 24 3 The Emergence of Legal Responses at International Level 27 3.1 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (1971) 27 3.1.1 … natural change due to flooding, subsidence, drought, sea-level rise or infilling with sediment or organic material. Lake …
Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation
… Green Belt projects at the national and international level. This publication was produced within the project “Walk … the land behind the former Iron Curtain, from the Barents Sea in the north to the Adriatic and Black Seas in the south. … the number of transboundary complexes has been on the rise, with a dramatic expansion in the last two decades …
The Futures of Privately Protected Areas
… a specific natural monument, which can be a landform, sea mount, marine cavern, geological feature such as a cave, … sustainable natural resource management and where low-level non-industrial natural resource use compatible with … the world conservation community has seen the promising rise of ICCAs as important additions to the world’s protected …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… regions, the Fund works at a landscape and community level to support the resilience of living diversity. More … were sobering: although more of the planet’s land and sea is under conservation management than ever before … with significant upward revisions of expected sea level rise by the end of the century if emissions continue unabated …