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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)
… success. The GPFLR mobilizes expert support and increased capacity to implement forest landscape restoration. With the … Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety of Germany. Finally, we are … indicators 42 Planning the work 46 Identifying data and capacity needs 46 Data requirements 46 Capacity needs 46 …
In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
… prevention of erosion. ❏ Provisioning – e.g. fisheries, building materials. ❏ Cultural – e.g. tourism, spiritual … damaged by strong winds and waves, and so their buffering capacity is a balance between their resilience and their … ecological characteristics. ❏ In a tsunami, the buffering capacity of reefs and mangroves is more variable and often …
Compliance-Related Texts and Decisions of Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… 2.3.10 COP Decision VII/8 - Capacity-building for implementation of the Strategic Plan (2004) … support further wildlife trade policy reviews and related capacity-building activities. 1.1.4 COP Decisions 14.31 and …
Wildlife protection and trafficking assessment in Kenya - Drivers and trends of transnational wildlife crime in Kenya and its role as a transit point for trafficked species in East Africa
… WWF or IUCN. Published by TRAFFIC, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK. © TRAFFIC … Such activities are extremely important for building the capacity of Kenya’s Customs, revenue and port police units to … enforcement all along the trade chain, corruption, weak capacity, and high demand in Asian markets. This Assessment …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… Trevor Sandwith Governance of Protected Areas Developing capacity for a protected planet Best Practice Protected Area … drawn from across IUCN. Applied in the field, they are building institutional and individual capacity to manage protected area systems effectively, …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… ‘ecosystem services’ concept is also largely due to its capacity to provide a unifying language between the economic, … heart of the ecosystem services potential, which is its capacity 5 to serve as a unifying language between … approach to ecosystem management which aims towards building resilience by considering dynamic as opposed to …
UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015
… to strengthen legislation and boost institutional capacity to deal with the challenges of chemicals management. … development is likely to continue apace, but we have the capacity to avoid the mistakes of past industrial … industrial sectors and cleaner production; and capacity building for monitoring and supervision. In addition, …
Mediterranean marine protected areas and climate change: a guide to regional monitoring and adaptation opportunities
… context, Marine Protected Areas increase the adaptive capacity of coastal and marine communities and buffer potential climate change impacts. Building the capacity of MPAs through data collection, monitor- ing and …
Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues
… to potential growth in demand for surface water storage capacity. Key messages and recommendations • Growth in demand … as “natural infrastructure” and can provide water storage capacity under certain conditions. • The Ramsar Convention … has led directly to a period of reduced activity in dam building as the implications of the Commission’s report were …