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Marine protected areas and climate change - Adaptation and mitigation synergies, opportunities and challenges
… to greater habitat complexity with strong implications for population recovery and overall diversity, including … 32 MPAs further play a critical role in facilitating population recovery following mortality events (such as those … (2014). BOFFFFs: on the importance of conserving old-growth age structure in fi shery populations. ICES Journal of …
Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment
… by internal ecosystem processes (nutrient and energy flow, population dynamics, etc.). In addition, human processes can … or the maximum allowable disturbance level of a resource, population, or ecosystem, taking into account the full … Biophysical processes such as soil formation, forest (re)growth, genetic erosion and evolutionary processes, effects …
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
… and religious practices; and a central factor in economic growth. It is important to note that responsible governance … systems increasingly face stress as the world’s growing population requires food security, and as environmental … agencies and judicial authorities serve the entire population, delivering services to all, including those in …
Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions ? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities
… indirect markets for ecosystem services and potential for growth 43 Table 13. Overview of benchmarks, indexes and other … to sixfold by 2050. 2. Demographic changes. Global population doubled in the past 40 years, reaching 6 billion … status (i.e. projected relative extinction-risk), based on population and range size and trends as quantified by Red …
Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability
… there will be costs nationally and globally, for economic growth, poverty reduction, food security, safe drinking … in the arid and semi- arid regions of the world where population growth and expansion of irrigated agriculture have … water supply. This situation has been complicated by rapid population growth and climate- change pressures. These …
Global mercury waste assessment - Review of current national measures
… part of solid waste. An estimated 39 per cent of the total population has access to adequate waste service (collection, … is a national priority. With continuous economic growth over the last 20 years, the amount of waste generated … - Egypt The pressures associated with a rapidly increasing population include corresponding increases in the amount of …
Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
… countries, as especially good conditions for forest growth in such countries should allow them to offer lower … logging • Oil palm and small-scale rubber plantations • Population growth • Forest fires in dry El Niño years • … to other uses. Cameroon • Agricultural intensification • Population growth • Shifting cultivation • A 1985 economic …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… more difficult to meet the needs of a growing global human population, as well as to leave space for other species. … and used to promote the region, generating new economic growth, based on more passive tourism such as environmental … in the appropriate language, any implications for the population living in or near the area. After a conservation …
Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation
… by poverty, high unemployment and emigration of the local population. An initiative has been introduced for the … the exchange of ideas and cooperation in management. The growth of formally designated protected areas is particularly … participation of stakeholders and acceptance within the population vary significantly and are subject 1 Landscape …
Our sustainable future: the role of the Basel Convention
… of the Basel Convention. The poorer members of the population in particular rely on the availability of such … for this projected increase in developing countries are growth in their populations and expanding and modernizing … for environmentally sound management to become a growth industry and will help promote a green chemical …