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UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development
… and social impact study EU European Union FES Forest Environmental Services FIT Feed in Tariff IMCSD … Enterprises REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation UNCSD United Nations Conference on … efficiency, and prevent the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. These investments need to be catalyzed …
What is Agrodiversity
… and non domesticated (wild) resources within field, forest, rangeland including tree products, wild animals … food production ecosystems (agricultural, pastoral, forest and aquatic ecosystems). Agrobiodiversity is the … are necessary for sustaining key functions of the agro-ecosystem, including its structure and processes for, and in …
Wildlife protection and trafficking assessment in Kenya - Drivers and trends of transnational wildlife crime in Kenya and its role as a transit point for trafficked species in East Africa
… following from the group ranches around the Tsavo-Amboseli ecosystem: Lolishoo Oltimbau, Haron Loosikira, Kimare Mapena, … Assessment and Priority Setting WLFC Wildlife and Forest Crime viii TRAFFIC report: Wildlife Protection and … recognized the need to update status data for elephants in forest habitats, fighting poaching, securing more range and …
Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… capacity of nature, while also securing the provision of ecosystem services. The implementation of the Environment for … flora and fauna within. In 1965, a preserved primeval forest of beech and fir (Abieti- Fagetum dinaricum) covering … or Fraxinus angustifolia. Apart from English oak, the forest communities include: hop hornbeam and pubescent oak …
Collaboration for resilience: How collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st century
… of rescuing the community from terminal decline caused by ecosystem collapse (Case 3). Case 3 – Timber Industry … of timber harvesting in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest (WWNF) in 1992. Sawmills closed and WWNF revenue … of the WWNF was cut by 50%, leading to removal of the forest management regime and decline in forest health. Pest …
Connectivity Conservation: International Experience in Planning, Establishment and Management of Biodiversity Corridors
… concepts aimed at maintaining and restoring ecosystem integrity have been undergoing rapid development … include narrow corridors of natural vegetation connecting forest plantations and “ecoducts” (land bridges planted with … enable animals to cross a motorway that cuts through a forest; stepping stones – small patches of habitat that can …
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2 - A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
… forests certified in accordance with the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). IUCN WORLD HERITAGE OUTLOOK … a critical outlook. Thailand’s Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, where international cooperation has resulted … of Natural World Heritage: Identifying and assessing ecosystem services and benefits provided by the world’s most …
Change : Adaptation of water resources management to climate change
… is a 5 year action programme to demonstrate that ecosystem- based management and stakeholder participation … communities. Clean water, fish, timber and non-timber forest products are often essential for the livelihoods of … agricultur to climate change in review. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 80, 1-53. 20 Boggess, W. G. and Curtis, …
An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
… were later 1 Africa has the second largest tropical rain forest and the second largest freshwater lake in the world. … to regulate the delivery of hunting and fishing permits, forest exploitation licenses or the allocation of water … protection (Strict Nature Reserve/Wilderness Areas); ii) ecosystem protection and recreation (National Parks); iii) …
Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas
… ron mental, Economic and Social Policy CFSA Commu nity Forest Stew ard ship Agree ment CMPA Co-Managed Protected … System NRM Natural Resource Manage ment NTFP Non-Timber Forest Prod ucts PA Protected Area PMB Partic i pa tory … able use of natural resources, the pres er va tion of ecosystem services and inte gra tion with broader social …