This CD provides maps of land cover, population density and biodiversity for 154 basins and sub-basins around the world. It lists indicators and variables for each of these basins and, where appropriate, provides links and references to relevant information.
Author(s):
Revenga, Carmen
Nackoney, Janet
Hoshino, Eriko
Kura, Yumiko
Maidens, Jon
Organization(s):
IUCN
International Water Management Institute, LK
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
This guide has been prepared by the IUCN Environmental Law Programme and the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD), in cooperation with the World Resources Institute (WRI).
Author(s):
Ascencio, Alfonso
Burhenne-Guilmin, Françoise
Kinderlerer, Julian
Kummer, Katharina
La Viña, Antonio
Mackenzie, Ruth
Tapper, Richard
Werksman, Jacob D.
Organization(s):
Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD)
Consistent evaluation and new recommendations for action are required of protective measures to address threats that were unrecognised or non-existent until recently. Global warming, noise pollution and reduced availability of prey are now of great concern.
Author(s):
Crespo, Enrique A.
Notarbartolo di Sciara, Giuseppe
Reeves, Randall R.
Smith, Brian D.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Cetacean Specialist Group
All indicators point to a worsening state of global fisheries. According to the latest figures of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 70% of fish stocks worldwide are fished at full capacity, overfished, or recovering.
This bilingual publication results from a four-day symposium aimed at capturing the general directions and analytical issues that characterize approaches to sustainable use in Africa.
Author(s):
Bihini Won wa Musiti
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Sustainable Use Specialist Group
The Muthurajawela Marsh is part of an integrated coastal wetland system of high biodiversity and ecological significance. Yet it is subject to intense and growing pressures from urban, residential, recreational and industrial development.
Climate change is here and will be with us for the long term. The challenge facing water professionals is how to make decisions in the face of this new uncertainty.
Wetlands in Africa are increasingly being recognised as ecosystems of extreme importance to man and biodiversity. However, the management of these wetlands has been impacted by alien invasive species that specialize on aquatic (and semi-aquatic) systems.
Author(s):
Howard, Geoffrey W.
Matindi, Susan
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Eastern Africa
IUCN, Eastern Africa Programme
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
Centroamérica ha abrazado con fuerza el tema de las evaluaciones de impacto ambiental (EIA) y el Comité Técnico de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental de Centroamérica está liderando la armonización y modernización de los sistemas de EIA en la región.
Author(s):
Aguilar Rojas, Grethel
Hernández, Gabriela
Organization(s):
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
Nicaragua, Ministerio del Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
La Evaluación Ambiental Estratégica (EAE) es un instrumento que ayuda a asegurar una evaluación apropiada en todas las decisiones estratégicas relevantes de los países y en Centroamérica puede constituirse en un mecanismo útil para el alivio de la pobreza.
Author(s):
Aguilar Rojas, Grethel
Hernández, Gabriela
Organization(s):
IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
La incorporación del enfoque de equidad de género es fundamental en la comprensión integral del ambiente. El gran reto es lograr de la EIA mejore la calidad de vida de las poblaciones y éstas puedan participar activamente en todas las gestiones necesarias para su desarrollo.
Author(s):
Acuña Sossa, Kathia
Rodríguez, Guiselle
Siles Calvo, Jackeline
Aguilar Rojas, Grethel
Organization(s):
Comisión Centroaméricana de Ambiente y Desarrollo (CCAD)
We all rely on a familiar set of indicators - interest rates, unemployment, inflation, the Dow Jones index, and GDP, for example - to gauge the performance of national economies. No such measures are currently available to describe the environment.
Organization(s):
H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, US
This policy brief examines how the inter-linkages approach to sustainable development governance can be used to help make sustainable development financing more effective and efficient.
The Earth is faster now is a collection of ten papers describing contemporary efforts to document indigenous knowledge of environmental change in the Arctic.
The critically endangered Blue Iguana is globally unique to Grand Cayman. Urgent wide ranging conservation measures are vital if this Caymanian flagship animal is to be saved from extinction.
Author(s):
Burton, Frederic J.
Organization(s):
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Iguana Specialist Group
This volume is a consolidated collection of selected papers presented by participants in the thematic working groups of a four-day workshop in Geneva entitled "Practising and Promoting Sound Environmental Management in Refugee/Returnee Operations" organised by the Environment Unit in UNHCR's Engi
Organization(s):
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Environment Unit
This book is intended as a simple guide to the identification of about 100 common and rare wild plant species in the UAE. These plants are illustrated in color and described in detail in order to help the naturalist or expert make positive identifications in the field.
Author(s):
Karim, Fawzi M.
Organization(s):
Dolphin Energy
Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency, AE
This is the first book to provide assessments of multidecadal changes in resources and environments of the Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) of the North Atlantic.
The "tragedy of the commons" is a central concept in human ecology and the study of the environment. It has had tremendous value for stimulating research, but it only describes the reality of human-environment interactions in special situations.
Organization(s):
United States, National Research Council, Committee on Human Dimensions of Global Change
For more than half a century, many natural habitats in the Czech Republic have been affected by destructive human activities or conversely, by abandonment, decreasing their quantity (area) as well as their quality (biodiversity).
The inability of development agencies to understand and improve the performance of the organizations they support continues to impede progress in the developing world, even after a decade of reforms.
