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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the State of California. Through direct action, alliances and … taken but inevitably some countries figure more in the range of examples than others. Urban Protected Areas is in … A major objective of updating would be to get a wider range of examples from around the world than has been …
Sustainably Investing in Rangelands - Jordan
… and biodiversity). This strategy involves halt range- land›s degradation by minimizing its underlying causes through enhancing sustainable range management, improving range vegetation cover … 2015-2020. In parallel of this preparatory work a state of the art Technical Brief on “sustainably investing in …
Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2011 - More case studies from around the globe
… open conservation land that provide habitat for numerous state and federally-listed species. Other than feral cats … burying beetles disappeared from the middle of their range and have persisted only on the fringes. Natural … Goal 3: To allow the mottled grasshopper to extend its range on the north-east Essex coast. Goal 4: To establish a …
Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India
… in economic development. A scoping report on the state of art of valuation of ecosystem services derived from … vultures, carcasses are now being left to openly growing range of health concerns to humans. A recent study in India … Committee (RSC) in order that policy makers in the range countries are able to make informed decisions …
Flow : The essentials of environmental flows
… together States, government agencies, and a diver- se range of non-governmental organizations in a unique … cultural values in relati- on to the entire system. A wide range of outcomes, from environmental protection to serving … type of dam, the provisions for releasing water and the state of the key water control outlets and structures. The …
Responsible governance of tenure and the law - A guide for lawyers and other legal service providers
… are prepared by technical specialists and can be used by a range of actors. They: • translate principles of the … . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 4.1 The role of the state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4.1.1 Allocating … of the limits of “good law” calls for guidance on the range of actors and processes necessary to enable the law to …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… glaciers, insufficient attention has been given to the range of problems associated with the warming of the oceans. … amongst the political and social communities in the state of our oceans. To manage the risks will require both … the scale of the challenge and explore this issue from a range of different perspectives – oceanography, ecosystems …
Evaluating effectiveness : A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas
… brings together States, government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world … and social sciences. There are many opportunities across a range of disciplines to pursue PhD studies as well as … progress at protected area sites . . . . . . . . . .79 VII State of the Parks assessment: New South Wales, Australia . . …
Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas
… entity or management regime and that an enormously wide range of different approaches to protection can be found … the impact of the 1994 categories system. IUCN and a range of organisations supported the two-year ‘Speaking a … Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine. At the sub-national (i.e. state) level, examples include Canada, where the Québec …
Best practice guidelines for the re-introduction of great apes
… brings together States, government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world … experts. SSC advises IUCN and its members on the wide range of technical and scientific aspects of species … as the habitat has recovered or returned to its former state. Provisioning has been dangerous to staff and could …