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White Paper - Regional Seas Governance

… jurisdictional boundaries, the ecosystems represent the spatial scopes of the management radius. Especially … management.32 Secondly, EBM requires the identification of spatial units capturing ecosystem structure and functions. … this for N.C. Ban et al., “Systematic conservation planning: a better recipe for managing the high seas for …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… be integrated into risk and vulnerability assessments, DRR planning and implementation for preparedness. Degradation of … projects with combined biodiversity-DRR targets through spatial planning, with GIS being one of the most promising … and Transport of Japan (MLITJ) developed a new National Spatial Development Plan in August 2015 and the 4th National …
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Best practice guidelines for the re-introduction of great apes

… 5 Section V, Planning and Preparing for Re-introduction … in primate distributions and systematics. There are spatial and tem- poral aspects to historic range … of the taxon, and recovered remains, are the bases for the spatial determination. In some cases, for example, orangutans …
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Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation

… Management principles with legal application 19 3.1 System planning 19 3.1.1 Protected areas system plan 21 3.1.2 … areas need to be integrated into land use and marine spatial planning, and more attention must be given to … to MPAs. This is approached through the concepts of marine spatial planning and networks of MPAs. IUCN’s 2009 plan of …
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The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa

… and it is poorly represented within the development planning process. One of the main reasons cited for … information on each of the priority taxonomic groups. Spatial data were also sourced for the production of species … extend throughout a river sub-basin but until finer scale spatial detail is provided each species is assumed to be …
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Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

… one umbrella of the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning . The Ozone and POPs Unit of the Ministry has been … the intranet database linked to an ArcGIS server enabling spatial interpretation of all results . The user has access … analytical tools allowing implementation of algorithms for spatial analyses, and modules enabling comparative analyses …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Redesigning future cities and related urban zones with protected area: cities, return to nature

… values of protected areas should be linked to urban planning in surrounding cities, centring around transitional … areas, it is necessary to establish eco-friendly urban planning based on scientific mapping for natural and cultural … and directions of landscape planning by establishing a spatial database through biotope mapping of natural and …
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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 … to multi-functional issues of soils and integration into spatial planning of agriculture, urban, biodiversity issues. …
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Mitigating the impacts of oil palm expansion and operations on biodiversity

… in the absence of strategic and jurisdictional land-use planning and without appropriate consideration for the … avoidable or could be mitigated through strategic land-use planning and licensing, legal reforms to secure the rights of … of existing oil palm concession maps and other spatial data, and provide recommendations to increase their …
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Implementing Sustainable Bioenergy Production. A Compilation of Tools and Approaches

… Due to the recent rapid growth of the sector, careful planning, and adaptation of existing knowledge is called for … to current and projected climate and will also include spatial elements such as hazard maps, crop yield maps and current land use maps which will improve spatial planning. A number of other guidelines for …
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