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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., …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …