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Para que la restauración de paisajes forestales (RPF) sea sostenible y responda a las múltiples necesidades medioambientales y del desarrollo, es necesario que exista diálogo y coordinación entre los diferentes sectores, agentes e instituciones.
Author(s):
- Imbach, Alejandro
- Vidal, Adriana
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
This report belongs to series of three related reports. This report investigates what legal compliance means for protecting forests and ecosystems in the main Latin American countries of origin for European soy: Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
Author(s):
- Dam, Jinke van
- Hombergh, Heleen van den
- Hilders, Marianne
Organization(s):
- IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands
Timely action to prevent, reduce and reverse land degradation can improve food and water security, contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation, and avoid conflicts and migration.
Organization(s):
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Secretariat
For forest landscape restoration (FLR) to be sustainable and responsive to multiple developmental and environmental needs, we need dialogue and coordination among sectors, actors and institutions.
Author(s):
- Imbach, Alejandro
- Vidal, Adriana
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
Author(s):
- Costa Neto, Joaquim de Britto
Organization(s):
- Brazil, Governo do Estado de São Paulo, Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente, Instituto Florestal
On 5 November 2015, a large dam containing 52 million m3 of iron mining residues (tailings) collapsed in Mariana, Brazil.
Author(s):
- Sánchez, Luis Enrique
- Alger, Keith
- Alonso, Luiza
- Barbosa, Francisco
- Brito, Maria Cecília
- Laureano, Fernando
- May, Peter
- Roeser, Hubert
- Kakabadse, Yolanda
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
On 5 November 2015, a large dam containing 52 million m3 of iron mining residues (tailings) collapsed in Mariana, Brazil.
Author(s):
- Sánchez, Luis Enrique
- Alger, Keith
- Alonso, Luiza
- Barbosa, Francisco
- Brito, Maria Cecília
- Laureano, Fernando
- May, Peter
- Roeser, Hubert
- Kakabadse, Yolanda
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Global Business and Biodiversity Programme
The Restoration Opportunities Optimization Tool (ROOT) was developed out of a need to more efficiently and effectively communicate the importance of ecosystem services to decision makers.
Author(s):
- Beatty, Craig
- Raes, Leander
- Vogl, Adrian L.
- Hawthorne, Peter L.
- Moraes, Miguel
- Saborio, Javier L.
- Meza Prado, Kelly
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
This edited collection assesses governance in forestry programmes and projects, including REDD+ governance.
For the last 20 years there has been a growing interest in the geosciences for topics related to geoheritage: geoconservation, geotourism and geoparks. Geoheritage: Assessment, Protection, and Management is the first and only reference book to cover these main topics as well as the relat
Author(s):
- Reynard, Emmanuel
- Brilha, José
Como nossas cidades continuam crescendo, não devemos abandonar a proteção de áreas naturais às pressões da urbanização, e sim defender esses lugares, e realmente tentar criar novos espaços para a natureza dentro do tecido urbano – inclusive dentro dos centros das cidades.
Author(s):
- Edmiston, Joseph T.
- Hyman, Glen
- McNeely, Jeffrey A.
- Trzyna, Thaddeus
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- IUCN, Global Protected Areas Programme
- Korea National Park Service
This publication is a result of Blue Solutions’ second Regional Forum on Solutions for Oceans, Coasts and Human Well-being in Latin America and the Wider Caribbean Region. This four-day workshop was held in Cancún, Mexico in April 2015.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- UNEP
Jusqu’à récemment, les conservationnistes se préoccupaient peu des aires protégées urbaines. Il faut défendre ces lieux et s’efforcer de créer de nouveaux espaces naturels au sein du tissu urbain, y compris dans les centres-villes.
Author(s):
- Edmiston, Joseph T.
- Hyman, Glen
- McNeely, Jeffrey A.
- Trzyna, Thaddeus
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- Korea National Park Service
The sustainability challenges we face today are greater than any we have previously confronted.
Author(s):
- Boer, Ben
- Martin, Paul
- Slobodian, Lydia
Organization(s):
- IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
- IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL)
Organization(s):
- Andrea Jakobsson Estúdio
- IUCN Brazil
- IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
- Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- UNEP
The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development.
Our oceans and coasts are the origin of life on earth, an important food source, and crucial for the global ecological equilibrium, yet despite their global significance, marine and coastal ecosystems face a wide array of threats.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- UNEP
The case studies from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, the Philippines and Viet Nam highlight how forest landscape restoration (FLR) interventions enhance food security.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
This report provides an overview of the water-energy-food nexus in Latin American and the Caribbean, identifying the main challenges and opportunities for achieving water, energy and food security in the region.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Global Canopy Programme
- International Water Association (IWA)
- IUCN Global Water Programme
Las áreas bajo protección privada merecen un reconocimiento y respaldo mucho mayores que el que reciben en este momento.
Author(s):
- Dudley, Nigel
- Redford, Kent H.
- Stolton, Sue
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- Protected Planet
- UNEP
- WCMC
Privately protected areas deserve far greater recognition and support than is the case at the moment.
Author(s):
- Dudley, Nigel
- Redford, Kent H.
- Stolton, Sue
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- Protected Planet
- UNEP
- WCMC
As our cities continue to grow, we should defend the protection of natural areas and even try to create new space for nature within this urban fabric.
Author(s):
- Edmiston, Joseph T.
- Hyman, Glen
- McNeely, Jeffrey A.
- Trzyna, Thaddeus
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Secretariat
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- Korea National Park Service
The report focuses on timber trade from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and contributes to monitoring the impact and effectiveness of European Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT)-related policy measures in South America through provision of preliminary baseline data on changes
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- European Commission
- TRAFFIC International
- WWF
O CNCFlora lançou o primeiro "Livro Vermelho da Flora do Brasil".
Author(s):
- Avila Moraes, Miguel
- Martinelli, Gustavo
Organization(s):
- Brazil, Centro Nacional de Conservação da Flora (CNCFlora)
- Brazil, Ministério do Meio Ambiente, Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
- IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)
Este guia de campo sobre os nossos cetáceos é uma valiosa ferramenta de identificação das 44 espécies e um gênero com ocorrência confirmada no Brasil.
Author(s):
- Lodi, Liliane
- Borobia, Monica
Esta publicación representa una contribución desde la UICN que demuestra la aplicación práctica de esta útil herramiento del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CBD) en la gestión de las áreas protegidas en Sudamérica.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
- IUCN, Regional Office for South America
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Global Economics Programme
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 paper focuses on efforts to create value from non-timber forest products in the Acre region in the north-western part of the Amazon region in Brazil.
Author(s):
- Machado, Frederico
- Gordon, James
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
- IUCN, Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS)
- Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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
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
This report, two years in the making, provides a comprehensive assessment of progress being made towards SFM in each ITTO producer member country and identifies the challenges remaining.
Organization(s):
- International Tropical Timber Organisation (ITTO)
Claro e concreto na abordagem da complexidade amazônica, este livro tem como foco a gestão do grande bioma em seus múltiplos aspectos.
En esta publicación se identifican y analizan las cuestiones fundamentales para la formulación y aplicación de marcos jurídicos nacionales y subnacionales para las actividades de REDD.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
This study compares compensation approaches taken with respect to impacts on biological diversity in selected countries from four different continents: Africa, Asia, North America, and South America.
Author(s):
- Darbi, Marianne
- Herberg, Alfred
- Ohlenburg, Holger
- Wende, Wolfgang
Organization(s):
- Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), DE
Written by a team of independent experts who are each covering the country or region from which they hail, the UNESCO Science Report 2010 analyses the trends and developments that have shaped scientific research, innovation and higher education over the past five years.
Author(s):
- Mejido Costoya, Manuel
- Utting, Peter
- Carrión, Gloria
Organization(s):
- United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
This report synthesises the findings of six participatory national assessments carried out under IUCN's Strengthening Voices for Better Choices (SVBC) global forest governance project.
Author(s):
- Baig, Saima
- Greiber, Thomas
- Moore, Patricia
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
El análisis y la interacción con socios involucrados en transacciones relacionadas con servicios ambientales y políticas y leyes conexas en los últimos 10 años, han evidenciado una clara necesidad de comprender mejor los marcos jurídicos e institucionales que tienen el potencial de favorecer o en
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
Author(s):
- Fagundes dos Santos, Evelin
- Mayer Massaroth, Lucia Fernanda
- Rua, Daniele
Organization(s):
- Imaflora
- IUCN, Regional Office for South America
As new mechanisms for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) are being negotiated in international climate change talks, resource tenure must be given greater attention.
Author(s):
- Cotula, Lorenzo
- Mayers, James
Organization(s):
- IIED (International Institute for Environment and Development)
The Alberto Löfgren State Park (PEAL) is a conservation unit of indirect use, with 174 hectares, located in the northern city of São Paulo, which receives an enormous amount of public visitors.
Author(s):
- Andrade, Waldir Joel de
- Eston, Marilda Rapp de
- Reis, Alessandra Friere de
- Herculiani, Sueli
Describes the aims and achievements of the "Strengthening Voices for Better Choices" project in Brazil, particularly as it relates to work in Acre.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
Analysis and engagement with partners working on ecosystem services transactions, policies and laws over the past 10 years have demonstrated a clear need to better understand the legal and institutional frameworks that have the potential to promote or hinder the development of payments for ecosys
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
This publication identifies and analyzes critical issues in the formulation and implementation of national and sub-national legal frameworks for REDD activities.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
This study reviews the financial costs of abating greenhouse gas emissions through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). It is written from the perspective of an institutional investor seeking cost-effective climate mitigation options.
Author(s):
- Bishop, Joshua
- Olsen, Nathalie
With the growing scarcity of fish resources, instruments of fisheries management become crucial. This publication suggests a legal approach to this isssue, and focuses on six case studies: Indonesia, Kenya, Namibia, Brazil, Mexico and the EU.
Organization(s):
- IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC)
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