For a large number of developing countries, agriculture remains the single most important sector. Climate change has the potential to damage irreversibly the natural resource base on which agriculture depends, with grave consequences for food security.
Author(s):
Hoffmann, Ulrich
Organization(s):
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
This report is a comprehensive overview of country-led efforts on climate change adaptation supported by the UNDP-GEF partnership with financing from the GEF-managed LDCF, SCCF and SPA funds.
Palms, belonging to the Arecaceae family, are among the most common plants in tropical countries and provide a vast assortment of products ranging from food to construction materials, fibre and fuel.
This handbook constitutes one of the battles being fought by civil society organisations to promote and protect the rights of communities living adjacent to mining areas against the operations of extractive industries, the state and other individuals who violate their Environmental, Economic, Soc
The report analyzes how the humanitarian community and the emerging volunteer and technical communities worked together in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and recommends ways to improve coordination between them in future emergencies.
Organization(s):
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
United Nations Foundation
Vodafone Foundation
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), US
United Nations, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The concept of Integrated Food and Energy Systems (IFES) as such is not new. Simple integration of food and energy production at both small and large scales has shown many successful results.
From introduction: "WWF has a vision of a world that is powered by 100 per cent renewable energy sources by the middle of this century. Unless we make this transition, the world is most likely to avoid predicted escalating impacts of climate change.
This comprehensive resource manual explains why and how the reform of fisheries subsidies has become one of the most important international efforts to achieve global, environmental, economic and developmental policy coherence.
The Year Books overview of events and developments during 2010 shows how cutting edge science reveals new opportunities to mitigate climate change while improving air quality. Stimulated by technological innovation and green investments, renewable energy supply is growing rapidly.
El presente informe supone el final de un largo proceso de aportación del Comité Español de la UICN al proceso de mociones, iniciado en 2007 tras la profesionalización de la entidad y la fundación de su Oficina Técnica.
The present report means the end of a long process of contribution of the IUCN Spanish Committee to the motions process which started in 2007 after the professionalization of the entity and the foundation of its new Technical Department.
This study focuses on the area which stretches along sections of the border region between southwest Serbia and eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina in the central part of the Drina River Valley.
The Neretva Delta region is a predominantly rural area of approximately 20,000 hectares, shared by Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The region supports the livelihoods of approximately 60,000 people living in nine municipalities - seven on the Croatian side and two in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This study explores the possibilities and challenges of the existing regional collaboration between Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia and Una National Park in Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of six pilot sites in the project Environment for People in the Dinaric Arc.
This document is divided into three sections. The first examines learning on various aspects of natural resources governance. This is followed by a section focusing more specifically on project implementation, planning and management lessons.
Author(s):
Surkin, Jordi
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN, Social Policy Group
United Kingdom, Department for International Development (DFID)
A knowledge management study was undertaken in the IUCN Eastern and Southern Africa Region by Rod Abson, Science and Knowledge Management Officer in the Science and Knowledge Management Unit of IUCN from the 18th of June to 1st of July 2011.
This report describes and reports on IUCN's participation in the 22nd World Scouts Jamboree, which took place in Rinkady, Sweden, 25 July-8 August 2011.
Author(s):
Abson, Rodney
Organization(s):
IUCN, Science and Knowledge Management Unit
IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
Climate change and the over exploitation of water resources is challenging the sustainability of the Pangani River Basin to deliver water services. Competition for diminishing water resources has led to tensions between the various stakeholders within the basin.
Inappropriate water management practices in the Komadugu Yobe Basin, upstream of Lake Chad in northern Nigeria, changed the seasonal river flow and caused widespread environmental degradation.
Regional and international delegates gathered for a conference focusing on forests, watershed management, and integrated water resource management on 23-24 May in Da Lat, Viet Nam.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Institute of Tropical Biology, Center for Biodiversity and Development, VN
Groundwater provides a valuable supply of drinking water to millions in the Mekong Delta, yet because this resource is below ground, it is effectively invisible and often not seen as a priority by policy makers.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Finland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of International Development Cooperation
Through presentations, discussions and recommendations the workshop documented and described the cumulative effects of such impacts, how these commonly act in a negatively synergistic way, and why therefore concerted action is now needed to address the consequences set out in this report.
Author(s):
Rogers, Alex
Laffoley, D.
Organization(s):
IUCN, Marine Programme
International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO)
IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
A knowledge management study was undertaken in the IUCN Asia Region by Rod Abson, Science and Knowledge Management Officer in the Science and Knowledge Management Unit of IUCN from the 25th of October to 12th of November 2010.
This Annual Report highlights some of the key events and activities of CEESP members during 2010 and enables others to see what an amazing group of professionals contribute to CEESP.
Author(s):
Mead, Aroha Te Pareake
Erasito, Elizabeth
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
This publication is a report of the UCN/NRDC Workshop to Identify Areas of Ecological and Biological Significance or Vulnerability in the Arctic Marine Environment.
This publication aims to further raise awareness about the value of transboundary conservation, highlighting the many benefits transboundary cooperation generates, while not neglecting the challenges and problems parties encounter when they engage in transboundary initiatives.
Author(s):
Vasilijevic, Maja
Pezold, Tomasz
Organization(s):
IUCN
European Green Belt Initiative
Germany, Bundesamt für Naturschutz
Germany, Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), Task Force on Transboundary Conservation
This publication synthesises a wide diversity of intofmration on economic pressures on the coastal sector, highlighting examples of impacts and providing a rationale for their responses, all from an economic perspective.
Author(s):
Conner, Nicholas
Lal, Padma Narsey
Ram-Bidesi, Vina
Organization(s):
IUCN, Oceania Regional Office (ORO)
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP), Secretariat
There are a number of EU policy areas that could have a direct or indirect impact on nature and biodiversity, and without effective application of cross-compliance principles, conservation efforts cannot be successful.
There are a number of EU policy areas that could have a direct or indirect impact on nature and biodiversity, and without effective application of cross-compliance principles, conservation efforts cannot be successful.
There are a number of EU policy areas that could have a direct or indirect impact on nature and biodiversity, and without effective application of cross-compliance principles, conservation efforts cannot be successful.
There is a real need for all those who are involved in making and implementing decisions - including central government planners and policymakers, local government administrators, civil society and the private sector - to understand the basic concepts and principles of governance and be able to
Este informe, basado en 21 casos analizados, procedentes de 17 países en cuatro continentes, describe cómo los pastores lograron defender y hacer valer sus derechos sobre la tierra.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), IT
International Land Coalition (ILC), IT
IUCN, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
UNDP
World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP)
Le présent rapport, basé sur 21 études de cas provenant de 17 pays de quatre continents, décrit la manière dont les pasteurs sont parvenus à défendre/faire valoir leurs droits fonciers.
Organization(s):
IUCN
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), IT
International Land Coalition (ILC), IT
IUCN, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO)
UNDP
World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP)