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Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual
… ter to reduce the impacts and improve recovery. viii) Resilience/Capacity – The capability of the community to cope … to maintain the components, functions, processes and resilience of aquatic ecosystems and the services they … adapted to climate change. Groundwater can enhance the resilience of domestic, agricultural and industrial uses of …
Maritime Traffic Effects on Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea. Volume 1 - Review of Impacts, Priority Areas and Mitigation Measures
… from the contamination shock, indicating their high resilience to the oil pollution accident. Similarly, … and mitigation measures communities reveals significant resilience. Guidetti et al. (2000) observed no significant … among these organisms with rapid recovery indicating high resilience to single oil spill incidents. Benthic macro-fauna …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… adequacy, representativeness, connectivity and linkages, resilience and vulnerability, ecological importance, synergy … management by improving feedback mechanisms and increasing resilience. Stakeholders/ community need to trust the process …
UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide
… Oregon State University, Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Resilience along International Waters (UNEP 2009). 26 The UN … by preventing negative effects, by enhancing the resilience of natural, social and economic systems to climate … 2001). Lucia De Stefano and others, Mapping the Resilience of International River Basins to Future Climate …
Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services : Guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas
… also increase quantity of water available; increase the resilience of vulnerable human communities to cope with … management of surrounding areas to improve flows from or resilience of site ES Government agencies and ministries, … policy aimed at mainstreaming environment and climate resilience into development planning and implementation. In …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… This phenomenon leads to the weakening of ecosystems’ resilience and capacity for renewal; disruption of ecological … and maintain the environment’s carrying capacity and resilience” (Arrow et al., 1995). 44 “A natural resource … and maintain the environment's carrying capacity and resilience. » (Arrow et al., 1995) 172 « A natural resource …
Issues in water law reform
… and McCay, B.J. (1995), Building equity, stewardship and resilience into market- based property-right systems. In … always payable to the adversely affected party. 2.6.3 The resilience of the 1981 Water Code The 1981 Water Code was … of public ownership is actually conciled with the resilience of residual private waters as well as with the …