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Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning
… Programme (UNEP), the world’s foremost intergovernmental environmental organisation. The Centre has been in operation … African National Biodiversity Institute and Department of Environmental Affairs, Pretoria. 5Regardless of the policy … for the Great Barrier Reef, has since become one of the standard software options for such analyses worldwide. MARXAN …
UNEP Global Judges Programme
… Programme. For further information, please contact: Environmental Law Branch Division of Policy Development and … AT A GLANCE ........ 1 REGIONAL JUDGES SYMPOSIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND THE ROLE OF THE JUDICIARY (1996–2002) … U D G E S P R O G R A M M E v MESSAGE Success in tackling environmental degradation relies on the full participation of …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… ones who are at greatest risk. However, for these people environmental variability and change is not novel or … past these communities have been exposed to many kinds of environmental changes and have developed coping strategies to … the understanding of vulnerability differs largely in environmental change literature and there has still no single …
Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,000 government … Beck, The Nature Conservancy, USA Joost Brouwer, Brouwer Environmental & Agricultural Consultancy, The Netherlands … FAO, Italy Alvin Chandra, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, UK Thomas Chiramba, UNEP, Kenya James …
Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters
… in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources … can work together to forge and implement solutions to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development. … Page Perry is an independent consultant specialising in environmental law, water and gender Safa Fanaian is a …
The Enivronmental Crime Crisis - Threats to Sustainable Development from Illegal Exploitation and Trade in Wildlife and Forest Resources. A UNEP Rapid Assessment
… 1 1 THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME CRISIS A RAPID RESPONSE ASSESSMENT … its carbon footprint. 2 3 A RAPID RESPONSE ASSESSMENT THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME CRISIS THREATS TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT … Contraband imports come mostly from Armenia.46 The low standard of living in some coastal regions of Russia makes …
Climate Change Vulnerability of Migratory Species
… change will impact on reproductive success and important environmental triggers or phenological cues. 3. … 18. Arnell N., 1999 Global Environmental Change, 9, 31‐49. 19. … if aiming for a high standard of review which is felt … denotes observed climatological mean plus/minus one standard deviation. Source: Kitoh et al 2008 …
An Ounce of Prevention: Snow Leopard Crime Revisited
… were also received from the following organizations: Environmental Investigation Agency; staff of the National Environmental Protection Agency, Afghanistan; NABU (Nature … excluding duplicates) from seizure datasets kept by NGOs (Environmental Investigation Agency and the Wildlife …
The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa
… 8.2.1 Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) … 8.2.3 Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and Environmental Flows … resource management approaches that integrate economic, environmental, and social dimensions at a catchment scale, … water, create employment opportunities and raise the standard of living, often becomes a story of environmental …