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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… 128 Debt-for-nature swaps 128 Conservation Trust Funds or Environmental Funds 129 Tobin-type and other taxes 129 … Eastern Africa Regional Office and the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP). It was … as an operating principle, a measure to assess a minimum standard for conservation in areas where high levels of …
The green belt of Europe: From vision to reality
… types (only types with more than 1% area) . . . .49 9. Environmental education: Czech pupil with pearl mussel . . . … of the Green Belt of Fennoscandia also includes a joint environmental policy in the border area (Hokkanen, 2004; … for life in and around protected areas. A growing standard of living also makes for an increasing pressure on …
Capacity Development Needs and Priorities for Nature Conservation in South-Eastern Europe
… practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organisation, with almost 1,300 government and … CD Capacity development CSO Civil society organisation EIA Environmental impact assessment EU European Union GEF Global … networking • Encouraging facilitated group discussion as a standard practice Formal learning (10%) • Courses, workshops, …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… 1985] ............................. 35 6. Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context … Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters [Aarhus, 25 June 1998] … a proper balance between resource development for a higher standard of living for their people and conservation and …
Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
… sible for the conservation of nature, the application of environmental regulations and policies on the use and … hope in what sometimes seems to be a depressing slide into environmental and social decline. Protected areas are by no … Nations and by many national governments as the global standard for defining and recording protected areas and as …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… Peter Bille Larsen 52 Chapter 3 Sustainable Livelihoods, Environmental Security and Conflict Mitigation: Four Cases in … Projects to policy work seeking the incorporation of environmental sustainability in poverty reduction strategies. … of an interest in a monetary form, according to the standard defined by the creditor54; Profitability: the debtor …
Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector: Regulatory tools.
… of which should have been determined earlier as part of an Environmental and Social Impact Assess- ment (ESIA) process. … to be collated internally as part of an existing environmental reporting sys- tem; be sensitive to major … condition of the terrain: 1. A survey point method is the standard sam- pling method when habitats are accessible and …
Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges
… and biodiversity benefits. The NbS concept, as used in environmental sciences and nature conservation contexts, has … However, it was only in the 1970s that the idea of environmental or ecosystem services began to establish itself … from which to derive a robust operational framework and standard that can be used to assess any NbS intervention. …
Report on the technical assistance needs of developing country Parties and Parties with economies in transition for the implementation of the Basel Convention and the technical assistance available from developed country Parties and others
… of the Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention, the environmental sound management of POPs and other hazardous …