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The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security
… Fisheries and Aquaculture, Forestry, and Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water. In addition, FAO country … and Recovery ICIMOD International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Nepal) IFAD International Fund for … According to Nepal’s International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), which hosted the landslides …
Linking Landscapes - Exploring the relationships between World Heritage cultural landscapes and IUCN protected areas
… IUCN protected areas Lead author Gunnar Finke, Advisor on Biodiversity, German International Cooperation (GIZ) With … None Brazil Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea 2012 (v)(vi) IIb & III Tijuca National … V Japan Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range 2004 (ii)(iii)(iv)(vi) III Yoshino-Kumano …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… in the majority of years. Dryland ecosystems and their biodiversity are uniquely adapted to these twin features of … drylands hold 30% of the total area of sites of important biodiversity, 35% of the global Biodiversity Hotspot Area, and 28% of the total area of World …
The 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. A Global Species Assessment
… 1PROCEEDINGS OF A GLOBAL SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP ON 'BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND SPECIES EXTINCTIONS: MANAGING RISK IN A … The global community has recognized that the loss of biodiversity must be stemmed. In 2002, the World Summit on … on Biological Diversity (CBD) to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. Achieving this goal (itself only …
Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
… application of technology are climate-sensitive, respect biodiversity and are resilient. One in which humanity lives … drought, land degradation, freshwater scarcity and loss of biodiversity, add to and exacerbate the list of challenges … A/RES/70/1 25/35 15.4 By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Japan Biodiversity Fund and the Convention on Biological Diversity … Zhang et al., 2011; Ouyang et al., 2008 Landslides Mountain Changes in species composition and abundance … unpublished). The role of forest protection in mitigating mountain hazards has been recognised since the 1870s in the …
Towards a Representative Network of Marine Protected Areas in Libya
… environment and development challenges. IUCN works on biodiversity, climate change, energy, human livelihoods and … tion is due to the contact of the foothills of the western mountain (Nefusa Mt) with the sea (from Garabulli to khoms), … reach >100 m (Ras Hilal and Lathroon), with the Green mountain running down to the sea, directly or with a very …
Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report
… agency 4.7. Role of local Leadership 4.8. Combining biodiversity and livelihoods 4.9. Commercial and … List of Boxes Box 1. Annapurna Conservation Area. Box 2: Mountain Areas Conservancy Project in Pakistan. Box 3: Some … Marco Polo sheep to their old habitat in the park. Box 2: Mountain Areas Conservancy Project in Pakistan Ministry of …
Improving governance of pastoral lands
… and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive … of between 20 km (seasonal movements to high altitude mountain pastures) and 500 km (transhumance between the … of growth (for example, during spring in the case of high mountain pastures). Decisions over establishing and enforcing …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… 5 1.3.2 Mountain ecosystems … for the maintenance of the region’s ecological system and biodiversity; respect the Arctic’s significance for and … Waters and a Circumpolar Protected Areas network. 8 1.3.2 Mountain ecosystems Mountains and uplands constitute about …