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A guide to designing legal and institutional frameworks on alien invasive species
… or alien species. These species have been used for agriculture, forestry, fishing, ornamental and recreational … Niek van der Graff and Robert Griffin (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). We greatly … equal to domestic and industrial consumption in the major urban and industrial centres. The invaded area is estimated …
Patents and clean energy technologies in Africa
… successful forms of biomass are sugar cane bagasse from agriculture, pulp and paper residues from forestry, and … most successful forms of biomass are sugarcane bagasse in agriculture, pulp and paper residues in forestry, and manure … energy services. The situation is obviously better in urban areas, but even here significant parts of the …
MEA Negotiator’s Handbook
… 6-6 6.1.6.1. Food and Agriculture Organization ........................ 6-6 … enhance the positive and mitigate the negative impacts of agriculture on pollinator diversity, productivity and … UNDP and UNEP – and seven Executing Agencies – Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations Industrial …
Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
… of compensation (as described on the website of LNV (Agriculture, Nature and Food Chain Quality: www.minlnv.nl)). … company’s other impacts on biodiversity, for instance in urban or other sites of lower biodiversity value. Communicate …
UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide
… to water, such as health, environment, education, agriculture, food, energy, fisheries and industrial water … a direct relevance to water, such as health, environment, agriculture, food, energy, fisheries and industrial water … increased dramatically – mainly due to the swelling of the urban areas close to the river banks. While both states B and …
Evaluating effectiveness : A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas
… a high-value popular protected area under threat from urban encroachment might require a range and standard of … impacts include infrastructure development, peripheral urban sprawl, irrigation projects, wild fires, tourist …
A Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners
… of major relevant sectors (e.g. forestry, water resources, agriculture, rural development, land use planning). ● … inside and outside the PA (e.g. forestry, water resources, agriculture, local communities). ● Relevant laws and … Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. Trzyna, T. (2014). Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines. …
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
… village, a clan in transhumance or the inhab it ants of an urban neigh bour hood can be consid ered a “local commu … mangroves) n Thateng District, Sekong Province, Laos (agriculture and forestry mosaic) n Potato Park, Peru (see Box … ment’ projects, like mines, dams, roads, indus tries and urban expan sion that threaten the biodiversity protected …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… application, encompassing a variety of develop- ments in agriculture, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and … the seabed (including the ocean floor, 23 See, e.g., FAO, Agriculture and Fisheries Status Report, 2002. ‘The global … The coastal zone of Lebanon is particularly vulnerable to urban encroach- ment and loss of habitat. Overpopulation (400 …