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Ramsar Convention Manual, 6th Edition
… everywhere as the full impact of climate change on our ecosystem lifelines is felt. Small wonder that there is a … the difficulty of assigning dollar values to the wetland ecosystem’s values and benefits, goods and services. Thus, … are working in the growing field of the valuation of ecosystem services. This is a difficult task, but in order …
Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation
… for the conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values while promoting peace … ago, while others that would complete the ‘picture’ of one ecosystem are still in the planning phase. This publication … step forward towards the integral protection of the Sharr ecosystem. 5 www.europeangreenbelt.org Another important …
Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation
… ecosystems, species and genes, together with the ecosystem processes which sustain them, and is the basis of … appropriate, to include conservation and management of ecosystem functions and services. 3 Biological diversity or … ecosystems, species and genes, together with the ecosystem processes which sustain them, and is the basis of …
Establishing marine protected area networks
… a real difference by sustaining or recovering wildlife and ecosystem processes; and o work on building networks should … o Ecologically. A network can help to ensure marine ecosystem function by encompassing the temporal and spatial … activities and non-use values, such as those provided by ecosystem services. Current social relationships and …
Towards Networks of Marine Protected Areas: The MPA Plan of Action for IUCNs World Commission on Protected Areas
… role as climate moderator and provider of essential ecosystem services. Photo: NASA 3 Significant progress is now … tivity. This is to maintain but increasingly recover ecosystem structure, function and processes in order to … biodiversity by 2010; • encouraging the application of an Ecosystem Approach in marine management by 2010; • …
The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… SBSTTA I/8), invasive alien species (see below), the ecosystem approach (Decision V/6),4 and guidelines on … work. See e.g., Report: Liaison Group meeting on Ecosystem Approach, 15–17 September 2000, Paris. Cartagena … work under FAO auspices on developing guidance for the ecosystem approach to fisheries (eg, FAO, 2003). CCAMLR Of …
A1- Integrating Environmental Concerns in International Water Law
… requirements for considering environmental and fluvial ecosystem protection, consistent with the general … requirements for considering environmental and fluvial ecosystem protection, consistent with the general … in Article 20 requires that a particular watercourse ecosystem be transboundary; it must only be part of a …
A Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners
… the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. The definition is … to: ● Protect species, habitats and ecosystems; ● Maintain ecosystem services, vital for local and national economies; ● … ● Developing plans for multifunctional landscape/ecosystem scale conservation (e.g. watershed management …
Guidelines for Reintroductions and other Conservation Translocations (Version 1.0)
… benefit at the levels of a population, species or ecosystem, and not only provide benefit to translocated … ways the focal species, their associated communities and ecosystem functions in both source and destination areas; … species locally or globally, and/or restoring natural ecosystem functions or processes. A translocation involves …
Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty
… Category II National Park: area managed mainly for ecosystem protection and recreation – natural area of land … on- farm requires the maintenance of the agro- ecosystem along with the cultivation and selection processes … environmental factors. l Indirect benefits, including ecosystem support. l Sustainable use by local people. l Does …