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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… tend to focus on technological, structural, social, and economic developments and the linkages between biodiversity … and elaborate appropriate and integrated plans for coastal zone management, water resources and agriculture, and for the … large islands are Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. Fiji’s marine Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) has an area of approximately …
Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… Organisation DAI Dinaric Arc Initiative DMZ Demilitarized Zone DPRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ECNC European … in order to create a real and lasting impact in economic development. SNV's vision is a society where all … relevant expertise and solutions for either common or exclusive single-side management problems Developing the …
Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems
… G. Davey, 1998, x + 71pp. Also available in Chinese. Economic Values of Protected Areas: Guidelines for Protected Area Managers. No. 2. Task Force on Economic Benefits of Protected Areas of the World Commission … www.biodiversityhotspots.org BirdLife International data zone: www.birdlife.org/datazone CBD Programme of Work on …
Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts
… on the part of IUCN or the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) concerning the … 4: Following access, many users seek to convert the non-exclusive genetic resource (legally held and potentially … within its borders/territorial waters/economic exclusion zone free of charge for purposes of in-country research or …
Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… United States National Park Service OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development PA Protected area RCP … objectives (OECD, 2006). One of the villages in the buffer zone of Virachey National Park, Cambodia. Protected area … achieve a particular outcome. The four strategies are not exclusive and it can be appropriate to cycle between them. …
Feed-in tariffs and a policy Instrument for promoting renewable energies and green economies in developing countries
… policies over time. Initially viewed as being mutually exclusive, countries now use opportunities to merge or … Electricity portfolio diversity Administrative complexity Economic development Integration with Policy Targets … energy policies are sometimes discussed as mutually exclusive alternatives, there are opportunities to merge or …
The Aarhus Convention:An implementation guide. UN/ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
… ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE UNITED NATIONS THE AARHUS … citizens’ rights through for a healthy environment . . . ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE Geneva UN/ECE Convention on … Similar require- ments would certainly be overly exclusive in countries that have permitted the formation of …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… a toll on human lives and causing increased property and economic losses, particularly in developing countries. The … dunes as buffers for coastal hazards integrated coastal zone management Preparedness preparedness plans to consider … Carolina micro-watershed actively promotes the creation of exclusive areas for protection and restoration of the natural …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… areas. Sustaining land resources is critical to the PRC’s economic development: with only about 7 percent of world’s … protection, and medicinal products) and human social, economic and production systems”.13 It explains that IEM … a nature reserve for the primitive forests and riparian zone. Instead, the new programme considered the protection of …
Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment
… to use these tools to systematically evaluate the economic, environmental and social outcomes of development … within a given country are the result of cultural, socio-economic and natural conditions. The integration of a … numbers of threatened or endemic species, with social, economic, cultural or scientific significance, or relevant …