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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… movements each year within the GBR, there has only been a small number of collisions and groundings, with 5 out of 26 … and without mangroves along this coast at a more local scale, and investigate and quantify the role of mangroves in … K.K., Panwar, A.S. and Singh, J.L. (2003). Sustainable Farming Systems for Hill Agriculture. In: Bhatt, B.P., …
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Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific

… region. In response to this, IUCN-Oceania organized a small gathering of those practicing resource and … illustrate using macroeconomic analysis that large scale sugarcane-based ethanol production could provide … Management Sugarcane Production Fiji sugarcane farming is based on rain-fed agriculture, with cane …
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Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration

… in Osaka, Japan. His work focuses on forest governance and small holder natural resource management. He has conducted … experiences have been those of local communities and small landholders. Restoration of primary forest-related … of on-farm trees: on-farm trees are not only assets for farming systems but are also an important source of …
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Preservation of oasis ecosystems

… and reuse in situ of the waste and by-products from farming and livestock-rearing activities; CLARIFYING that, … change, vulnerability and adaptation; d. to support small-scale sustainable agriculture in oasis zones; e. to associate …
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Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management

… on monitoring and learning. Policy and management at scale • How sholud we plan water interventions effectively in … jeopardised due to the additional stresses put upon them. Small agriculture area in the Todgha Gorge of the High Atlas … enhanced water availability; • Additional income from fish farming and increased agricultural activity; • Greening of …
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Towards a Pollution Free Planet - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… and the fetus. In lead-exposed women there is secretion of small amounts of lead into breast milk, further exposing … result of industrial releases, such as in artisanal and small-scale gold mining to mercury in artisanal and small-scale
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Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values

… volume has broken new ground by documenting on a global scale the non- material values that are to be found in … around Mt Sinai and the Monastery. Oth- ers such as the small monasteries of Dir Rimhan and Dir Antush on Gebal Um … inhabited by local Sherpa people that practiced farming and herding. As the interna- tionally accepted …
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Safeguarding the contribution of wild living resources and ecosystems to food security

… broadly for developing countries; NOTING that industrial-scale food systems tend to be characterized by growing carbon … use of natural resources and ecosystem services between small-holder farming and fishing systems and industrial large-scale food …
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The ecosystem approach: Five steps to implementation

… of relevance to professionals and practioners active in farming, forestry, fisheries, protected areas, urban planning … to be chosen, using what criteria? An appropriate size and scale (Principle 7) is one which does the following: • meets … made by local managers, the vast majority of whom are small-scale farmers or livestock producers. These decisions …
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The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa

… 3.2 Conservation status (IUCN Red List status: regional scale) … 10,000 undescribed species. Of these species, only a small number have had their conservation status assessed … and pollution, plus deforestation associated with farming and human population increases. Some parts of its …
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