This list contains 876 entry(ies).
In most places around the world, people are an integral, sometimes dominant, part of the environment. This has two implications.
Organization(s):
- Community Conservation Research Network (CCRN)
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
After a short introduction of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), the present presentation develops the application of the ecosystem approach by the military sector, in particular in relation to peace-support operations and reconstruction programmes.
Author(s):
- Wit, Piet de
- Noome, Dominique A.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
“International Workshop on Resource Enhancement and Sustainable Aquaculture Practices in Southeast Asia” was held in Iloilo City from 5 to 7 March 2014.
Author(s):
- Romana-Eguia, Maria Rowena R.
Organization(s):
- Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC)
This Responsive Forest Governance Initiative Handbook defines basic democratic concepts and explains how democratic governance works. It then lays out responsive forest governance principles to be used when working with local government, parallelorganizations, and citizens.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Sweden, SIDA
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Sweden, SIDA
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
- Sweden, SIDA
- University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)
Organization(s):
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- IUCN, Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA)
- Jordan, Ministry of Agriculture
Author(s):
- Noray, Marie-Laure de
- Sy, Omar Saïp
Organization(s):
- Fondation MAVA pour la nature
- IUCN Senegal
This report presents an overview of the workshops and meetings held in the Maldives during the week of 23 - 27 March 2015 as part of the Resilience-based Management theme under IUCN Project REGENERATE.
Author(s):
- Mancini, Agnese
- Marshall, Paul
This special issue of Policy Matters focuses on the outreach and impact of Dr. Elinor Ostrom's groundbreaking research on common property (or commons) theory. Her work was instrumental in shaping contemporary analyses of resource management and conservation, especially at a local level.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
Water practitioners are increasingly called upon to negotiate workable agreements about how to best use, manage and care for water resources. This book makes the case for constructive engagement and cooperative forms of negotiation in dealing with complex water issues.
Author(s):
- Dore, John
- Robinson, Julia
- Smith, Mark
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
Organization(s):
- Critical Ecosystem Patrnership Fund
- IUCN Laos
Participatory Learning and Action is the world's leading informal journal on participatory approaches and methods.
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
Water practitioners are increasingly called upon to negotiate workable agreements about how to best use, manage and care for water resources. This book makes the case for constructive engagement and cooperative forms of negotiation in dealing with complex water issues.
Author(s):
- Dore, John
- Robinson, Julia
- Smith, Mark
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
This publication provides an overview of the worlds shared water resources and insights for managing these resources.
Author(s):
- Bergkamp, Ger
- Greiber, Thomas
- Sadoff, Claudia
- Smith, Mark
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
This document aims to share lessons learned from the implementation of the Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management Initiative (PREMI) designed and executed by the Central and West Africa Programme of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN-PACO).
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Regional Office for Central and Western Africa
- Sweden, SIDA
Le présent document vise à partager les leçons apprises de la mise en oeuvre de l'Initiative pour la Réduction de la Pauvreté et la Gestion de l'Environnement (Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management Initiative -- PREMI) conçue et exécutée par le Programme Afrique Centrale et Occidentale d
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Regional Office for Central and Western Africa
- Sweden, SIDA
In an increasingly crowded world reconciling environmental ‘conservation’ with the ‘sustainable use’ of natural resources is now our greatest challenge.
Author(s):
- Brown, Paul
- Cooney, Rosie
- Merson, John
Water practitioners are increasingly called upon to negotiate workable agreements about how to best use, manage and care for water resources. This book makes the case for constructive engagement and cooperative forms of negotiation in dealing with complex water issues.
Author(s):
- Dore, John
- Robinson, Julia
- Smith, Mark
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
This publication provides an overview of the worlds shared water resources and insights for managing these resources.
Author(s):
- Bergkamp, Ger
- Greiber, Thomas
- Sadoff, Claudia
- Smith, Mark
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
- IUCN, Water Programme
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 report analyses the different ways for quantifying and accounting for water flows and productivity within the economy (including environmental needs).
Organization(s):
- UNEP
- UNEP, International Resource Panel
This paper illustrates the potential for developing sustainable environment management practices such as BioTrade in Latin America.
Organization(s):
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
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)
- United Nations, Department of Field Support (DFS)
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.
Author(s):
- Keys, P.
- Barron, J.
- Lannerstad, M.
Organization(s):
- UNEP
- Stockholm Environment Institute, SE
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Global Economics Programme
This publication provides an overview of the worlds shared water resources and insights for managing these resources.
Author(s):
- Bergkamp, Ger
- Greiber, Thomas
- Sadoff, Claudia
- Smith, Mark
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
This book analyzes the state and management of national parks in Africa. It discusses the state of ecosystems of national parks in the continent and assesses the capacity of environmental leadership and management to positively impact on biodiversity conservation in national pakrs.
Author(s):
- Boon, Emmanuel K.
- Hens, Luc
- Oviedo, Gonzalo
This report focuses on the role and importance of the fishing and tourism industries in Vanuatus economy. The report begins by presenting an overview of the country, its economy, and the fishing and tourism industries.
Author(s):
- Verdone, Michael
- Seidl, Andrew
This report presents an overview of the economy of Fiji with an emphasis on the fishing and tourism industries and their contributions to the broader economy.
Author(s):
- Verdone, Michael
- Seidl, Andrew
This publication presents innovative ways that have been used to influence policy processes, from community pressure groups through elected and unelected leaders, to scientific discourse at the levels of directors of economic planning and conservation.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- International Development Research Centre, CA
- IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC)
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Es importante integrar las consideraciones relativas a la biodiversidad en la localización y el diseño de hoteles y complejos turísticos para mantener a largo plazo no sólo la viabilidad y conservación de los ecosistemas sino también el éxito financiero de dichos hoteles y complejos.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Intégrer les questions de biodiversité dans les décisions relatives à l'implantation et à la conception d'hôtels et de complexes hôteliers est important non tant pour la conservation et le maintien de la viabilité des écosystèmes, que pour la réussite financière à long terme des hôtels et des com
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Organization(s):
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- IUCN
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Integrating biodiversity considerations into siting and design decisions for hotel and resort developments is important not only for the continued viability and conservation of the ecosystems, but also for the long-term financial success of the hotels and resorts.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Accor
- Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST)
- Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
- TRAFFIC International
La biodiversidad juega un papel importante en la vida diaria de un hotel. Desde la comida del restaurante a la madera de los muebles y acabados, a las comodidades del spa, los productos de la biodiversidad se encuentran en cada rincón de los hoteles.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Accor
- Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST)
- Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)
- Fondo para Iniciativas de Desarrollo Educativo de El Salvador (FIDES), SV
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- Fundación Empresarial para la Acción Social (FUNDEMAS), SV
- Grupo Agrisal, SV
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
- TRAFFIC International
Beginning with a grassroots approach to water management, increased knowledge and information and the improvement of environmental health and livelihoods, the region around the Tacaná volcano on the border of Guatemala and Mexico has shown the way forward in scaling up local level approaches to n
Author(s):
- Welling, Rebecca
- Cartin, Megan
- Córdoba Muñoz, Rocío
- Rivera, Ottoniel
- Rosal, Carlos
- Arrevillaga, Felipe
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
In the Volta basin, WANI and partners have worked with riparian states to improve water governance and water management practices.
Author(s):
- Welling, Rebecca
- Cartin, Megan
- Baykono, Désiré
- Diallo, Ousmane
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
The Water and Nature Initiates (WANI) activities in the Mekong followed a strategy of mobilizing grass-roots engagement of local stakeholders in decision making, while facilitating high-level dialogues.
Author(s):
- Welling, Rebecca
- Cartin, Megan
- Pangare, Ganesh
- Rattanasorn, Tawatchai
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Water and Nature Initiative (WANI)
Biodiversity plays an important role in the day-to-day life of a hotel. From the food in the restaurant and wood in furniture and fittings, to the amenities in the spa, the products of biodiversity are everywhere inside hotels.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Accor
- Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST)
- Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)
- France, Ministère de l'Ecologie, de l'Energie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
- France, Ministère de l'Outre Mer
- IUCN, Business and Biodiversity Programme
- TRAFFIC International
Author(s):
- Spelchan, Daniel G.
- Nicoll, Isabelle A.
- Nguyen, Thi Phuong Hao
Organization(s):
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
- Vietnam, People's Committee of Quang Binh Province
- Vietnam, People's Committee of Soc Trang
This publication is an excerpt of the report, "Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth : a report of the working group on decoupling to the International Resource Panel".
Organization(s):
- UNEP
- UNEP, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
- UNEP, International Resource Panel
This report provides a solid foundation for the concept of decoupling, clearly defining key terms and providing empirical evidence of escalating resource use. It shows that decoupling is already taking place to some extent, but is lagging far behind its potential.
Organization(s):
- UNEP
- UNEP, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
- UNEP, International Resource Panel
UNEPs green economy report, Towards a Green Economy, aims to debunk several myths and misconceptions about greening the global economy, and provides timely and practical guidance to policy makers on what reforms they need to unlock the productive and employment potential of a green economy.
Organization(s):
- UNEP, Global Resource Information Database (GRID)
This book describes how an era of biohappiness, based on the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity, can be launched.
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