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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… for selection included the availability of an impact assessment of climate change on local communities, or … tend to focus on technological, structural, social, and economic developments and the linkages between biodiversity … of the impact of climate change on natural and socio-economic systems should encompass the full scope of climate …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… 33 List of Figures Figure 1: The Millennium Assessment Conceptual Framework … to its capacity to provide a unifying language between the economic, business and environmental communities; as … This offers a strategic opportunity to further engage economic policy makers and the private sector in conservation …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… 4. Methodology for water management options assessment … 4.4 Economic valuation … an outline methodology for water management options assessment comprised of a number of steps relating to … portfolios, modelling of environmental outcomes and economic evaluation, cost-benefit analysis, as well as risk …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… 35 6. Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context [Espoo, 25 February … 471 37. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - Charter on Groundwater … [1994] ............................ 520 41. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - Guidelines on Monitoring and …
Pangani River Basin, Tanzania - Building consensus on water allocation and climate change adaptation
… on evidence of how changes in flow allocation impacts economic, social and environmental factors in the basin. … and related resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without … and increase capacity to collect and analyze such flow assessment information. This led to the development of a …
Guidelines for Reintroductions and other Conservation Translocations (Version 1.0)
… Section 5 p.17 Feasibility and design Section 6 p.25 Risk assessment Section 7 p.28 Release and implementation Section … will impact and be impacted by human interests. Social, economic and political factors must be integral to … but it also carries risks to ecological, social and economic interests - Annex 3.1. 2. There should generally be …
The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… regulatory presumption in favour of allowing develop- ment/economic activity to proceed when there is a lack of clear … not only underlying natural systems but the socio-economic and political context which shapes the impact of … the precautionary strategy is likely to require assessment of the relative conservation threats and benefits …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… the Ozone Layer, the Multilateral Fund, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE, which hosts five … for Environmental Cooperation (NACEC), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Regional … Processes .................................... 108 Assessment of Domestic Capabilities during Negotiations …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… of the CDM; they provide clear and tangible socio-economic and environmental benefits to public participants … for legal issues that are often intertwined with socio-economic challenges, legal reform may not be necessary or … relating to CDM AR projects. We then conducted a “Needs Assessment”, asking relevant persons in the climate and …
Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability
… gaining increased importance as means to ensure that socio-economic and environmental sustainability considerations are … legal tools that can significantly contribute to the economic, social and environmental sustainability of … the voluntary guidelines on biodiversity-inclusive impact assessment (Decision VIII/28); • the work programme on …