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UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development
… agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, fisheries and marine/coastal areas, sustainable tourism, energy and climate … the Electric Power Sector Reform Act 2005 Box 15Urban planning and sustainable transportation Box 16: Ontario … Law requires applied environmental assessment to spatial and sector-specific plans at the national and local …
Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
… of a worldwide representative network of terrestrial and marine protected areas, as an integral contribu- tion to the … IUCN protected area categories as a tool for conservation planning … to represent. Adequacy ● : integrity, sufficiency of spatial extent and arrangement of contributing units, …
Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide
… assis- tance of the new Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources in the prepara- tion of this … and institutional frameworks, including: 33 ■ The uneven spatial and temporal distribution among nations of … among all sources, including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological …
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… natural monument, which can be a landform, sea mount, marine cavern, geological feature such as a cave, or a living … Bioversidade; Brett Myrdal, General Manager, Environmental Planning, South African National Parks, and a former Manager … buffer zone. There are three aspects to this: First, a spatial database for landscape planning has been created, …
Global Warming of 1.5°C - an IPPC special report on the impacts of global warming
… is limited to 1.5°C in the 21st century (high confidence). Marine ice sheet instability in Antarctica and/or … (e.g., green infrastructure, sustainable land use and planning, and sustainable water management) (medium … in the past within specific sectors, technologies and spatial contexts, but there is no documented historic …
The status of natural resources on the high-seas
… Gland, Switzerland. ISBN: 2-88085-250-1 Cover design: Marine Unit, WWF International. Layout by: Renate Dominique, … M., Fiala-Médioni, A., Foucher, J.P. and Ohta, S. (1990). Spatial distribution of clam colonies at the toe of the … protect the resource until you know that the use you are planning will be sustainable over time. This approach to MPA …
Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector: Regulatory tools.
… and operational pro- cesses, rather than creating new planning and management steps. In the IBMS, a risk-based … on ce- ment and aggregate extraction sites (with deep- er marine habitats, for example, being absent); the difficulty … type into different habitat blocks and es- timate their spatial extent separately, specifical- ly when these habitat …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Checklist of issues for planning linkages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … biodiversity. A second challenge relates to the differing spatial scales at which linkages are incorporated in … an area of 31,500 ha (plus an additional 5000 ha of marine areas and corralline reefs), the Talamanca-Carribbean …
Business and ecosystems : Ecosystem challenges and business implications
… the ocean, the coastal boundary zones yield about 90% of marine fisheries. They also have high levels of pollution. … worldwide must employ fiscal and regulatory mechanisms; � Spatial information on ecosystem degradation should be widely … available and accessible as a public good to help business planning and responses; � The development of an “ecosystem …
National Blue Carbon Policy Assessment Madagascar
… focused on harnessing the values associated with coastal marine carbon and ecosystem services to achieve improved … climate change, forestry, and biodiversity, as well as marine resource management. The report also undertakes a … for a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder and multi-sector planning approach, which includes coordination between …