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African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas

… forests certified in accordance with the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). La terminologie … de forêts bien gérées, certifiées selon les normes du Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). … local responses that also achieve mutual benefits for biodiversity conservation and community resilience. Inger …
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Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought

… iv Land Degradation: a global threat to biodiversity and sustainable development .......1 Extent of … that 22 year period. In this assessment cropland and forest land were disproportionately degraded: 19% of … mosaics; 43% of degrading land was forestland even though forest occupies only 28% of the world’s land surface. The …
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Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas

… below. Ia Strict nature reserve: Strictly protected for biodiversity and also possibly geological/ geomorphological … Institute, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service Angie Stringer Guidelines Facilitator; … area nomenclature is relatively recent. The United States Forest Service first used the term in 1924 in the …
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Transboundary Conservation. A systematic and integrated approach

… below. Ia Strict nature reserve: Strictly protected for biodiversity and also possibly geological/ geomorphological … July 1991 recognizing the importance of its well-preserved forest, the deep Dyje River valley with incised meanders, and … and other special conservation activities in selected forest-free areas. Podyjí National Park holds a European …
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The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… play in envir- onmental conservation, the protection of biodiversity and, ultimately, the sustaina- ble management of … for the area, but has also had a major impact both on the forest and on the religious values of Meteora, Greece �� the … man who withdrew there eight centuries ago. Na- tional forest legislation and the existence of a ‘hurn’ —an Islamic …
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Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

… Citation UNEP (2016) Enhancing cooperation among the seven biodiversity related agreements and conventions at the … in line with obligations under international agreements Forest area as a proportion of total land area; Proportion of … and reforestation globally Progress towards sustainable forest management Target 5 By 2020, the rate of loss of all …
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3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts

… scientists, working in the fields of agriculture, food, biodiversity and the environment, much of their work focusing … set up ESTIMATING SPATIAL PRODUCTIVITY OF A TEMPERATE FOREST OVER THE DISTRIBUTION AREA OF PINUS ARIZONICA AT THE … APPEARANCE UNDER UNTYPICAL CONDITIONS OF UKRAINE WEST FOREST ZONE KOLIADA, VALERIJ PETROVICH; TIMCHENKO, DMYTRO …
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GEO yearbook 2003

… the quality of the air we breathe, and slowing the rate of biodiversity loss? How are human impacts on the environment … famine, and other disasters. UNEP-WCMC publishes the Cloud Forest Agenda – a first mapping of all the world’s tropical … may be in danger of extinction as a result of massive forest destruction. The African Ministerial Meeting on …
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Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)

… It is part of the growing toolbox for assessing risks to biodiversity and aims to support conservation, resource use, … to detect. Burns et al. (2015) describe an example of a forest ecosystem characterised by biota associated with large … such transitions, the novel ecosystem still retains a forest structure, albeit one characterised by smaller trees …
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Compilation of Internationally agreed environmental Goals and Objectives

… 2. Biodiversity … in the compilation: (a) Air pollution and air quality; (b) Biodiversity; (c) Chemicals and wastes; Compilation of … transboundary haze pollution as a result of land and/or forest fires which should be mitigated, through concerted … » » Focus Goals, objectives Source B* or NB* Forests See forest section below. Non-legally binding instrument on all …
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