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Although anthropologists and cultural geographers have explored "place" in various senses, little cross-cultural examination of "kinds of places", or ecotopes, has been presented from an ethno-ecological perspective.
Author(s):
- Johnson, Leslie M.
- Hunn, Eugene S.
In der Diskussion über die aktuellen und zukünftigen Herausforderungen für die Sicherung der biologischen Vielfalt findet sich der Klimawandel stets an vorderer Stelle. Seine Folgen erscheinen bedrohlich, die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen auch für Natur und Landschaft immens.
Author(s):
- Demuth, Bernd
- Moorfeld, Maria
- Heiland, Stefan
Organization(s):
- Germany, Bundesamt für Naturschutz
Überschwemmungen wie die Elbeflut im August 2002 führen uns immer wieder auf dramatische Weise die Notwendigkeit der Hochwasservorsorge vor Augen. Klimawandel und die Ausweitung der Siedlungs- und Verkehrsflächen verschärfen dabei das Risiko von Schäden auch durch kleinere und lokale Ereignisse.
Author(s):
- Grossmann, Malte
- Hartje, Volkmar
- Meyerhoff, Jürgen
Organization(s):
- Germany, Bundesamt für Naturschutz
This guide was developed to help address issues regarding resource consumption and environmental conservation, efficiency and competitiveness in enterprise management, and sustainable consumption and production.
Organization(s):
- European Union
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- European Commission, Directorate-General Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection
Includes discussion of the conservation activities relating to "les hêtraies du Luzulu-Fagetum", "les phoques" (including Phoca vitulina and Halichoerus grypus), "la cistude d'Europe (Emys orbicularis) and "les grands carnivores" (including Canis Lupus and
Examines the process for the delineation of the outer continental shelf and speculates on the location and feasibility of extraction of the various non-living resources which may occur in these areas.
Organization(s):
- International Seabed Authority, JM
This report provides an interesting overview of Trobenbos International's achievements in 2009.
Organization(s):
- Tropenbos International, NL
"Building a future for wildlife" is the slogan of the World Zoo and Aquarium Conservation Strategy. Modern zoos and aquariums are playing an increasingly active and important role in conserving species in their natural habitat.
Organization(s):
- World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA)
Humla is a remote and mountainous district situated in the north-west corner of Nepal, bordering with China.
This report examines Irelands progress since the previous OECD Environmental Performance Review in 2000.
Organization(s):
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Author(s):
- Mejido Costoya, Manuel
- Utting, Peter
- Carrión, Gloria
Organization(s):
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
Organization(s):
- Switzerland, Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft (WSL)
Organization(s):
- Switzerland, Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft (WSL)
Author(s):
- Wali, Mohan
- Evrendilek, Fathi
- Fennessy, M. Siobhan
Organization(s):
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Crocodile Specialist Group
Author(s):
- Carbone, Giulia
- Boomsma, Stefanie
- Borges, Maria-Ana
- Schelhaas, Marielies
- Voermans, Judith
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Aggregate Industries UK, a subsidiary of Holcim, restores ecosystems as part of its quarrying operations.
Author(s):
- Olsen, Nathalie
- Shannon, Delia
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Programme régional de conservation de la zone côtière et marine en Afrique de l'Ouest (PRCM)
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC), Crocodile Specialist Group
This guidance sets out the suggested procedures for compiling retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) and for submitting them for approval by the World Heritage Committee.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
- International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), IT
- Unesco, World Heritage Centre
Organization(s):
- IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
This is the report of a study on the approaches to decision-making and dialogue on large dams and hydraulic infrastructures in developing countries and emerging markets, particularly the policies and practices applying to environmental and social aspects, and engagement of stakeholders around pro
Organization(s):
- IUCN, West/Central Asia and North Africa Regional Office
- Jordan, [Government]
This report is a summary of the discussions that took place during the workshop, presenting the main outcomes both generally on bioenergy and then specifically in relation to IUCN. Full details of the discussions are available in the annexes.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
This study focuses on Damb Village, Balochistan, which is a site of a naturally occurring mangrove forest in Miani Hor lagoon. The latest mangrove vegetation map prepared by SUPARCO using SPOT imagery in 2003 suggests that 86,727 ha are under mangrove forests along Pakistans coast.
Author(s):
- Baig, Saima
- Iftikhar, Usman Ali
Organization(s):
- IUCN Pakistan, Environmental Assessment Services
- IUCN, Ecosystem and Livelihoods Group
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Ecosystem and Livelihoods Group, Asia
- Germany, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
- Mangroves for the Future
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Ecosystem and Livelihoods Group, Asia
- Germany, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
- Mangroves for the Future
Le présent document a pour objectif de rendre compte des formations, études de cas, discussions et échanges en tous genres qui, pendant quatre jours, ont largement nourri la réflexion pour une meilleure implication des ONG ouest-africaines dans la conservation en général et la gestion des aires p
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Central and West Africa Programme (PACO)
- IUCN, Regional Protected Areas Programme, Western Africa
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Water Programme
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI. Describes GOBI's online submission tool to accept information about ecologically or biologically significant areas in the open oceans and deep seas.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- UNEP-WCMC
- BirdLife International
- Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- Census of Marine Life (COML)
- Duke University Marine Biospatial Ecology Lab, US
- Marine Conservation Biology Institute, CA
- United Nations University (UNU), Institute of Advanced Studies
- AquaMaps
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), AU
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- UNEP-WCMC
- BirdLife International
- Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- Census of Marine Life (COML)
- Duke University Marine Biospatial Ecology Lab, US
- Marine Conservation Biology Institute, CA
- United Nations University (UNU), Institute of Advanced Studies
- AquaMaps
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), AU
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI, focusing on the EBSAs in the Pacific Ocean region.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- UNEP-WCMC
- BirdLife International
- Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- Census of Marine Life (COML)
- Duke University Marine Biospatial Ecology Lab, US
- Marine Conservation Biology Institute, CA
- United Nations University (UNU), Institute of Advanced Studies
- AquaMaps
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), AU
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI. This contribution looks at the Birdlife International marine important bird area (IBA) toolkit as a case study.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- UNEP-WCMC
- BirdLife International
- Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- Census of Marine Life (COML)
- Duke University Marine Biospatial Ecology Lab, US
- Marine Conservation Biology Institute, CA
- United Nations University (UNU), Institute of Advanced Studies
- AquaMaps
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), AU
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- UNEP-WCMC
- BirdLife International
- Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- Census of Marine Life (COML)
- Duke University Marine Biospatial Ecology Lab, US
- Marine Conservation Biology Institute, CA
- United Nations University (UNU), Institute of Advanced Studies
- AquaMaps
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), AU
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI, looking at the scientific contributions of Census of Marine Life and Ocean Biogeographic Information Systems (OBIS).
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- UNEP-WCMC
- BirdLife International
- Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- Census of Marine Life (COML)
- Duke University Marine Biospatial Ecology Lab, US
- Marine Conservation Biology Institute, CA
- United Nations University (UNU), Institute of Advanced Studies
- AquaMaps
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), AU
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Insert for a presentation folder on GOBI.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- UNEP-WCMC
- BirdLife International
- Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- Census of Marine Life (COML)
- Duke University Marine Biospatial Ecology Lab, US
- Marine Conservation Biology Institute, CA
- United Nations University (UNU), Institute of Advanced Studies
- AquaMaps
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), AU
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Executive summary insert for a presentation folder on GOBI.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- UNEP-WCMC
- BirdLife International
- Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- Census of Marine Life (COML)
- Duke University Marine Biospatial Ecology Lab, US
- Marine Conservation Biology Institute, CA
- United Nations University (UNU), Institute of Advanced Studies
- AquaMaps
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), AU
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- UNEP-WCMC
- BirdLife International
- Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- Census of Marine Life (COML)
- Duke University Marine Biospatial Ecology Lab, US
- Marine Conservation Biology Institute, CA
- United Nations University (UNU), Institute of Advanced Studies
- AquaMaps
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), AU
- UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Social Policy Group
Cette brochure est un bref résumé du document de travail de lUICN « Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change/ REDD An overview of current discussions and main issues », disponible à ladresse : http://cmsdata.iu
This brochure presents a brief summary of IUCNs working document Indigenous People and Climate Change/ REDD An overview of current discussions and main issues, available at: http://cmsdata.iucn.org/download
This document provides an overview and analysis of current international discussions on main issues around indigenous peoples and REDD. A compilation with links to various related resources allows the reader easy access to additional reading and relevant key documents.
Author(s):
- Brownell, Robert L.
- Donovan, Gregory P.
- Kato, H.
- Larsen, Finn
- Mattila, D.
- Reeves, Randall R.
- Rock, Y.
- Vladimirov, V.
- Weller, D.
- Zhu, Q.
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