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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field

… Network (ELAN). ELAN is an international network working across the scientific, policy and practitioner … (UNCCD) (CBD, 2004). In 2005 an ad hoc technical group was established in order to begin the identification of … Impacts, Assessment and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the …
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Sharing Information with Confidence. “The Biodiversity Commons”: past experience, current trends and potential future directions

… users of the type of information discussed, as consultants working with NGOs, UN agencies, governments and companies, … immeasurable mass of unpublished material: theses, papers, working notes, half finished monologues…not to mention … the Subgroup for Biodiversity Informatics of the Working Group on Biological Informatics of the OECD Mega-science …
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Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values

… believe that formally identifying and protecting lived-in, working landscapes of high conservation value could be of … and emotional features of a society or a social group. In addition to arts and crafts, culture encompasses … partially filled by the ef- forts of several commissions, working groups and task forces, including those that have …
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Community - based incentives for nature conservation

… because they represent the interests of a particular group, http://economics.iucn.org (kits-02-01) 12 deny … In Case Study 1 a particular niche was identified for working with poorer farmers in Kibwezi, who face the greatest … IUCN Eastern Africa Regional Office Biodiversity Economics Working Paper 1998, Mount Kenya: the Economics of Community …
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Water Management and Stewardship

… challenges and achieve sustainable development. Working with many partners and supporters, IUCN implements a … As an international organisation, IUCN has experience of working with several corporates (e.g. food and nutrition; … Pegram, Managing Director, Pegasys Management Consulting Group, South Africa; Dr. Nick Hepworth, Director of Water …
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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… the development stage of the project 18 case studies and working papers were prepared. These are provided in Section 2 … system (see box below). Drawing on the 18 case studies and working papers developed by the project, an assessment of the … area; or as a strategic framework for the planning of a group of protected areas. These different situations raise …
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Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case

… investors and millions of retail customers of the HBOS group. Insight has both a financial interest and a moral … addition, the National Parks and Wildlife Service has been working with Planning-NSW to offset the impact of major … how it built trust by showing good practice over time, working with the National Parks and the Broads Authority for …
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Putting nature on the map: a report and recommendations on the use of the IUCN system of protected area categorisation in the UK

… apply the 2008 Guidelines in the UK. NCUK set up a project group and a broader advisory group to implement PNOTM. PNOTM … damage caused by industrialisation; and a demand for working people to have access to the countryside for … To compile a comprehensive picture of all these required working with many stakeholders in all parts of the UK. The …
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Solutions in focus: Transboundary protected area solutions

… 6 Foreword WCPA Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group 8 Guatemala and Mexico: Transboundary conservation in … protected areas. Based on a common plan and a shared working agenda, there is more communication between local … and monitor wildlife. Transnational institutional working group A supplementary strategic working group, …
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Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… who greatly increased the quality of this manual, often working to very tight deadlines. Specifically, in addition to … T. MacArthur Foundation through a grant to the “informal working group”. Field testing of these criteria was supported by the …
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