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E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
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Climate change in the African drylands : options and opportunities for adaptation and mitigation
   

This paper highlights the climate change mitigation potential of the African drylands and lays out various paths towards adaptation which should be supported to reduce the vulnerability of dryland populations and increase their food security.
Livestock keepers : guardians of biodiversity
   

This publication provides a glimpse into the often intricate knowledge systems that pastoralists and smallholder farmers have developed for the management of their breeds in specific production systems. It also describes the multitude of threats and challenges these often marginalized communities have to cope with and suggests interventions that can sustain valuable human-animal-environment relationships and combine conservation of breeds and their ecosystems with poverty alleviation.
Preparation of national strategies and action plans for animal genetic resources
   

Preparing and implementing a national strategy and action plan will enable countries to translate the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources and the momentum it has created into an effective and comprehensive approach to the sustainable use, development and conservatin of their animal genetic resources. It will enhance their efforts to increase food production and food security, reduce povery and promote rural development. The guidelines provide a practical approach to preparing a national strategy and action plan, informing the user how to get the planning process initiated, implemented and completed - culminating in government endorsement of the plan.
The Red Book of endangered animals of Greece
    Legakis, Anastasios | Maragos, Panagiota

A book about the threatened animals of Greece, with notes on distribution, population status, ecology, threats, protection measures and bibliographic references for each species. The book contains also a complete list of all the vertebrates of Greece.
Watching giants : the secret lives of whales
Plants and people : ethnobotanical knowledge from Lebanon = Plants and people : ethnobotanical knowledge from Lebanon (Arabic version)
    Zurayk, Rami | Talhouk, Salma N. | Gharios, Cynthia | Sleem, Khaled

This Book comes as a watershed of the work in IBSAR on the indigenous plants of Lebanon, where teams of IBSAR researchers have deployed their efforts in learning about local plants and their traditional use as a basis for valorizing them.
The red data book of rare and threatened plants of Greece (Greek version)
Rare plants data book of Korea
From conflict to peacebuilding : the role of natural resources and the environment
   

This report, which inaugurates a new policy series by UNEP on the environmental dimensions of disasters and conflicts, aims to summarize the latest knowledge and field experience on the linkages between environment, conflict and peacebuilding, and to demonstrate the need for those linkages to be addressed in a more coherent and systematic way by the UN, Member States and other stakeholders. As such, it is linked to a wider cooperation on conflict and natural resource management started between the European Commission and the United Nations system in 2008, which has resulted in a new project funded by the European Commission under the Instrument for Stability on “Strengthening Capacities for Consensual and Sustainable Management of Land and Natural Resources.” The research and consolidation of information herein will feed into the development of upcoming guidance notes, training modules, policy papers and other outputs under this EC-UN project.
Protecting the environment during armed conflict : an inventory and analysis of international law
   

This report inventories and analyses the range of international laws that protect the environment during armed conflict. With a view to identifying the current gaps and weaknesses in this system, the authors examine the relevant provisions within four bodies of international law – international humanitarian law (IHL), international criminal law (ICL), international environmental law (IEL), and international human rights law (HRL). The report concludes with twelve concrete recommendations on ways to strengthen this legal framework and its enforcement.
Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions
    Ariely, Dan

An evaluation of the sources of illogical decisions explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, offering insight into the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly.
Don't be such a scientist : talking substance in an age of style
    Olson, Randy

"After nearly a decade on the defensive, the world of science is about to be restored to its rightful place. But is the American public really ready for science? And is the world of science ready for the American public? Scientists wear ragged clothes, forget to comb their hair, and speak in a language that even they don't understand. Or so people think. Most scientists don't care how they are perceived, but in our media-dominated age, style points count. Enter Randy Olson. Fifteen years ago, Olson bid farewell to the science world and shipped off to Hollywood ready to change the world. With films like Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (Tribeca ’06, Showtime) and Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy (Outfest ’08), he has tried to bridge the cultural divide that has too often left science on the outside looking in. Now, in his first book, Olson, with a Harvard Ph.D. and formerly a tenured professor of marine biology at the University of New Hampshire, recounts the lessons from his own hilarious-and at times humiliating-evolution from science professor to Hollywood filmmaker. In Don't Be Such a Scientist, he shares the secrets of talking substance in an age of style. The key, he argues, is to stay true to the facts while tapping into something more primordial, more irrational, and ultimately more human. In a book enlivened by a profane acting teacher who made Olson realize that "nobody wants to watch you think," he offers up serious insights and poignant stories. You'll laugh, you may cry, and as a communicator you'll certainly learn the importance of not only knowing how to fulfill, but also how to arouse."--Publisher's description.
The United Nations world water development report 3 : water in a changing world
WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants : volume 4
Global environmental change : the threat to human health
Heart of dryness : how the last Bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought
    Workman, James G.

This nonfiction narrative set in the Kalahari dramatizes the timeless struggle over water, the fulcrum of political power. Facing drought, scarcity and climate change the besieged indigenous Bushmen use voluntary survival strategies while Botswana's government enforces regulatory rule. Their rivalry foreshadows our world, where two in three thirsty humans will soon endure shortages, resource conflict, a $900 billion market, and a global fight for water as a human right.
Mexico : capacities for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
   

This is the purpose of this collaborative work between the UNDP and Conabio which tells how, in a relatively short time and with varying scopes, the management of our natural capital was structured. It details the consolidation of a solid body of scientists which, though still small in number in the face of the magnitude of the challenges facing our country, are dedicated to the environmental problem. This work describes how strategies were implemented to provide the soundly based arguments which demonstrated the false dichotomy between economic growth and the sustainable management of natural capital, and also underlines the persistence of the development model followed in our country to date. This project is an assessment of the national capacities for knowledge generation and in situ conservation, an evaluation of the instruments required for this goal and of the generation and implementation of public policies. It also includes an assessment of the facts and figures, and the voices of those from different sectors who participated in workshops and shared their valuable insights, and of others that were expressed through interviews or written texts.
Geneva green guide 2010
   

A practical desk reference for Geneva-based organizations involved in environmental and sustainable development issues. It includes practical information for each organization and distills the nature of each organization's work into one- or two-paragraph summaries. The online edition is updated regularly.
Connecting biodiversity and climate change mitigation and adaptation : report of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change
Natural heritage of Korea, Dokdo
   

This book aims to give more specific and more easily accessible information about Dokdo's ecological, geological, and meteorological conditions, and marine ecosystem. By examining this unique volcanic island, which has a specific endemic ecosystem, it is anticipated that the information might foster a better understanding of Dokdo.
Guide de reconnaissance des engins et filets de pêche artisanale utilisés dans les Aires Marines Protégées d'Afrique de l'Ouest
    Douguet, Louis le

Le secteur de la pêche en Afrique de l'Ouest est d'une importance cruciale, autant pour les économies des pays de la sous-région que pour la sécurité alimentaire des populations. Les Aires Marines Protégées (AMP) ont été crées avec des objectifs de conservation de la biodiversité et pour la régénération des ressources halieutiques. Elles assurent le renouvellement des stocks et la conservation des habitats qui leurs sont associés. Cependant, cette approche implique un fort engagement des populations résidentes des AMP et la mise en place consensuelle de règles d'exploitation et de gestion des ressources. Ce guide permettra aux agents des AMP d'améliorer leurs connaissances techniques des engins de pêche et d'effectuer les contrôles afin de vérifier si les règles d'exploitation sont pleinement respectées.
Rapport annuel d'activities : 2009
Lettere da Runc e diari di guerra e di prigionia
    Videsott, Paolo | Pedrotti, Franco

This publication compiles the diary of Paolo Videsott, one of the founders of IUCN and a major figure in nature conservation in Italy, written during his imprisonment by Nazis between 1943 and 1945, and correspondence written between 1981 and 2006.
Growing within limits : a report to the Global Assembly 2009 of the Club of Rome
   

Current trends in fossil-fuel use and inefficient land use will lead to large global environmental problems with respect to climate change and biodiversity loss. Technical and economically feasible options are available to meet the challenge to avoid these problems. The main issue is that of creating institutional and policy conditions for a more sustainable economy.
Community management of natural resources in Africa : impacts, experiences and future directions
    Roe, Dilys | Sandbrook, Chris | Nelson, Fred

More than twenty years have passed since community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) rose to prominence in different parts of Africa as a strategy for rural development, local empowerment, and conservation. Led by new ideas about the merits of decentralized, collective resource governance regimes, and creative field experiments such as Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE, these community-based approaches evolved in a wide range of ecological, political, and social contexts across Africa. This review provides an unprecedented pan-African synthesis of CBNRM, drawing on multiple authors and a wide range of documented experiences from Southern, Eastern, Western and Central Africa. The review discusses the degree to which CBNRM has met poverty alleviation, economic development and nature conservation objectives. In its concluding chapter, the report suggests a way forward for strengthening CBNRM and addressing key challenges in the years ahead.
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