These guidelines describe, in logical chronological order, the process of establishing a programme for cryoconservation of animal genetic resources, starting with the process of confirming the decision to implement a cryoconservation programme.
Organization(s):
FAO
FAO, Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
This comprehensive presentation discusses peat and mire properties relative to forestry practiced both on pristine mires and drained peatlands. The emphasis is on Nordic conditions. Where relevant, the approaches applied in other parts of the boreal and temperate zones are also discussed.
Author(s):
Hanell, Björn
Päivänen, Juhani
Organization(s):
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SE
University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Sciences, FI
This book aims to introduce beach forest species and mangrove associates to researchers and the general public alike, and to describe their traditional and commercial uses based on recent research and older literature.
Author(s):
Primavera, Jurgenne H.
Sabada, Resurreccion B.
Organization(s):
Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC)
The EAF Toolbox is aimed at national and local fisheries management authorities, including fishery managers, scientists and stakeholders looking for practical solutions they can apply given their circumstances and resources.
The surge in Chinese investments in Africa has brought about a flurry of questions expressing concern over their ecological impact in the host countries. till, the principles and implementation of environmental management by Chinese firms remains largely unknown.
Author(s):
Vliet, Geert van
Magrin, Géraud
Organization(s):
Agence Française de Développement, FR
Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), FR
This paper examines the volumes, sources and flows of e-waste, the risks it poses to e-waste workers and the environment, occupational safety and health issues, labour issues and regulatory frameworks, and links this growing global problem with the International Labour Organizations (ILO) curren
Author(s):
Lundgren, Karin
Organization(s):
ILO
ILO, Sectoral Activities Department (SECTOR)
ILO, Programme on Safety and Health at Work and the Environment (SafeWork)
Das Thema Umwelt wird das 21. Jahrhundert womöglich so prägen, wie kaum ein anderes. Denn Umwelt steht für die Umgebung des Menschen, die auf ihn einwirkt und die er durch sein Handeln beeinflusst. Doch wie ist es um sie bestellt?
Inclusive business models have attracted renewed interest in recent years, as part of wider debates about growing agricultural investment in developing countries. This report discusses joint ventures in South Africas agricultural sector.
Author(s):
Lahiff, Edward
Davis, Nerhene
Manenzhe, Tshililo
Organization(s):
IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), IT
FAO
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), ZA
These guidelines on Phenotypic characterization of animal genetic resources address Strategic Priority Area 1 of the Global Plan of Action "Characterization, inventory and monitoring of trends and associated risks".
The Zoological Park: a new ally for Biodiversity delivers directly and succinctly what must be understood as the requirements of the EU Zoos Directive established in 1999.
Organization(s):
Spain, Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente
Asociación Nacional para la Defensa de los Animales (ANDA), ES
On 19 June 2012, Shumei International and Navdanya officially launched Visions of the Living Earth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20.
Overall, this thesis contributes to the understanding how marketing can help to solve sustainability problems in pastoral areas, in particular the Horn of Africa. It also contributes to the extension of marketing theories from high income countries to informal economies in emerging markets.
Sponsored and co-organized by the World Bank Europe and Central Asia Disaster Risk Management team, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the purpose of this workshop was to share best practices and experience i
Organization(s):
World Bank
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
This document reviews the present state of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) within the EMPAFISH project. Using the Driver-Pressure-State-Impacts-Response (DPSIR) framework develops a conceptual model which determines the elements that affect MPAs.
Author(s):
Ojeda-Martinez, C.
Bayle-Sempere, J. T.
Giménez-Casalduero, F.
Barberá, C.
Sanchez-Jerez, P.
Valle, C.
Sanchez Lizaso, José Luis
Forcada, A.
Zubcoff, J. J.
Organization(s):
Universidad de Alicante, ES
European Union
EMPAFISH (Marine Protected Areas as tools for Fisheries management and conservation), EU
This paper is a UNISDR contribution towards effective Drought Contingency Planning (DCP) for stakeholders and partners implementing drought risk reduction programmes in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA).
Organization(s):
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Designing a pro-poor land recordation system is the first attempt to fill the gaps in the development of new forms of land recordation to assist the implementation of a continuum of land rights approach at scale.
Organization(s):
Global Land Tool Network (GLTN)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
This book is a practical manual on how to develop and manage tourism in protected areas. It is for all those responsible for the management of protected areas as tourism destinations.
This publication explores the opportunities that a low carbon green growth path offers to the region. It articulates five tracks on which to drive the economic system change necessary to pursue low carbon green growth as a new economic development path.
Organization(s):
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
The objective of this study is to provide an analysis of the current level of integration of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the region, with an emphasis on the policy and institutional environment.
Organization(s):
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
The report analyses the different ways for quantifying and accounting for water flows and productivity within the economy (including environmental needs).
This Handbook for Local Government Leaders provides mayors, governors, councillors and others with a generic framework for risk reduction and points to good practices and tools that are already being applied in different cities for that purpose.
Organization(s):
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
The aim of the present report is to examine the changing context within which the reptile skin trade has existed (where we came from), the extent of the current industry and its regulatory strengths and weaknesses (where we are now), and what the future can or should bring (where we go from
Author(s):
Webb, Grahame J. W.
Manolis, S. Charlie
Jenkins, Robert
Organization(s):
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Secondo i criteri UICN il 43% degli Efemerotteri, il 40% dei Plecotteri e il 51% dei Tricotteri della Svizzera figurano nella Lista Rossa, il che corrisponde al 47% delle 499 specie dei tre gruppi di insetti acquatici con dati sufficienti; il 15% (71 specie) è inoltre potenzialmente minacciato.
Author(s):
Knispel, Sandra
Lubini, Verena
Sartori, Michel
Vincentini, Heinrich
Wagner, André
Organization(s):
Centre suisse de cartographie de la faune, CH
Switzerland, Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV)
43% des Ephémères, 40% des Plécoptères et 51% des Trichoptères de Suisse figurent dans les listes rouges selon les critères proposés par lUICN, soit au total 47% de lensemble des 499 espèces des trois groupes dinsectes aquatiques pour lesquels des données suffisantes sont disponibles.
Author(s):
Knispel, Sandra
Lubini, Verena
Sartori, Michel
Vincentini, Heinrich
Wagner, André
Organization(s):
Centre suisse de cartographie de la faune, CH
Switzerland, Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV)
La liste rouge 2011 des characées (Characeae) est la première liste de macroalgues me-nacées publiée en Suisse. Sur les 25 espèces recensées à ce jour sur le territoire helvétique, 23 ont été classées par catégorie selon les critères de menace de lUICN.
Author(s):
Auderset Joye, Dominique
Schwarzer, Arno
Organization(s):
Switzerland, Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV)
Université de Genève, Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire d'écologie et de biologie aquatique, CH
Es ist die Erstausgabe der Roten Liste der gefährdeten Armleuchteralgen (Characeae) in der Schweiz. Darin sind alle bisher in der Schweiz festgestellten Characeenarten mit dem entsprechenden Gefährdungsgrad aufgrund der IUCN-Kriterien aufgeführt.
Author(s):
Auderset Joye, Dominique
Schwarzer, Arno
Organization(s):
Switzerland, Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV)
Université de Genève, Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire d'écologie et de biologie aquatique, CH
This report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how peacekeeping operations affect and are affected by natural resources and environmental conditions. The report is divided into two main parts.
Organization(s):
Global Witness, UK
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), CA
Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI), SE
UNEP
United Nations, Department for Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)
El libro está organizado en dos secciones principales: en la primera se presentan los capítulos introducción, metodología, diversidad de vertebrados cubanos y sus amenazas de extinción, regiones cubanas y su diversidad de vertebrados, listas previas de vertebrados cubanos amenazados, y un análisi
Author(s):
González Alonso, Hiram
Mancina, Carlos A.
Ramos García, Ignacio
Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes
Rodríguez, Ariel
Organization(s):
Cuba, Ministerio de ciencia, tecnologia, y medio ambiente, Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática
This document discusses the need to balance short-term water productivity gains in particular in agriculture - with the long-term role that water flows provide for maintaining sustainable landscape ecosystem services (ESS), and serving multiple benefits to human well-being.
The 2012 UNEP Year Book spotlights two emerging issues that underline the challenges but also the choices nations need to consider to deliver a sustainable 21st century urgently improved management of the worlds soils and the decommissioning of nuclear reactors.
The objective of this report is to provide an overview of alternative macroeconomic indicators of economic progress and sustainable development, focusing in particular on efforts to incorporate environmental and natural resource measurements that are not typically included in traditional measures
This Strategy aims to encourage transformational and demonstrable change at the company and sectoral level in how biodiversity is valued and managed by businesses in order to conserve and restore biodiversity and to ensure that biodiversity benefits are shared equitably.
This document focuses on summarizing the different threats to long term objectives and proposing activities to address these threats. It constitutes a management and action plan for the period from January 2013 until December 2017.
Organization(s):
ANA Sales, JP
Finland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
IUCN
Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center (OECC), JP
Increasing incidence and intensity of natural disasters and climate change are having over-arching impacts on the environment. Sustainable development is being undermined. Ecological services and their indirect economic values are frequently omitted from assessments.
Author(s):
Miththapala, Sriyanie
Organization(s):
IUCN Sri Lanka
FAO, Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem (BOBLME)
Drawing on a cross-section of 43 case studies prepared specially for this book, WaterWealth explains the challenges to improving water governance and management across Asia and the Pacific region.
Author(s):
Das, Binayak
Lincklaen Arriëns, Wouter
Makin, Ian
Pangare, Ganesh
Organization(s):
IUCN
Academic Foundation, IN
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
Network of Asian River Basin Organizations (NARBO)
