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E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
E.g. Brooks, Thomas M.
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Reducing disaster risk : a challenge for development
   

This Report is premised on the belief that in many countries the process of development itself has a huge impact — both positive and negative — on disaster risk. It shows how countries that face similar patterns of natural hazards — from floods to droughts — often experience widely differing impacts when disasters occur. The impact depends in large part on the kind of development choices they have made previously. As countries become more prosperous, for example, they are often better able to afford the investments needed to build houses more likely to withstand earthquakes. At the same time, the rush for growth can trigger haphazard urban development that increases risks of large-scale fatalities during such a disaster. The same is true in many other areas.While humanitarian action to mitigate the impact of disasters will always be vitally important, the global community is facing a critical challenge: How to better anticipate — and then manage and reduce — disaster risk by integrating the potential threat into its planning and policies.
La faune terrestre de l'archipel des Comores
    Jocqué, R. | Louette, M. | Meirte, D.

The present book gives an overview and where possible an inventory of the terrestrial fauna of the tropical and volcanic Comoros, western Indian Ocean.
Review of the village monitoring team's coral reef monitoring programme in Tanga region
A rapid assessment of live coral mining and lime production in Mtwara
    Guard, M.

The extraction of live coral to burn and produce "white lime" or "chokaa" has a long history in Tanzania, yet in many areas it is believed that this practice has reached unsustainable levels and is considered to be one of the main contributors to reef and forest degradation along the coast. This assessment was developed to describe the size, geographic extent and socioeconomics of the coral mining and lime production industry within the buffer zone of Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park.
Sueños de Guatemala : poesía y fotografía
    Avril, Christophe | Garnier, Paul

Este libro presenta hermosos lugares de Guatemala captados por los fotógrafos Paul Garnier (Suiza) y Christophe Avril (Francia). Se presenta también una selección de poetas guatemaltecos de diferentes épocas hasta la poesía actual.
Assessing the prospects for community management of wildlife in Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) national park, Nepal : final main report
Healthy fisheries, sustainable trade : crafting new rules on fishing subsidies in the World Trade Organization
Mobilizing IUCN's knowledge to secure a sustainable future : the IUCN knowledge management study. Study executive summary
    Creech, Heather

A knowledge management study carried out for IUCN. For more than five decades IUCN has used its knowledge to lead and guide conservation thinking around the world. Through its knowledge networks comprised of Commissions and Members, supported by the Secretariat, IUCN has built a remarkable reputation based on its ability to generate, mobilise and provide sound scientific and technical knowledge and advice towards the changes it wants to see in the world. This report suggests a series of strategic moves for IUCN to upgrade to the next generation of strategies and processes for mobilizing its knowledge, its relationships and its communications. The Study includes a review of the evolution of knowledge management and current trends as well as tables of definitions and typologies of networks and communications practices.
Kaua'i : images of the garden island
Assessing biodiversity : a practical guide
The fall of water : emerging threats to the water resources and biodiversity at the roof of the world to Asia's lowland from land-use changes associated with large-scale settlement and piecemeal development
African environment and development : rhetoric, programs, realities
Changements climatiques, désertification, diversité biologique et forêts
Impacts of Europe's changing climate : an indicator-based assessment
Perspective in world food and agriculture 2004
National biodiversity strategy in South America : perspectives for regional cooperation
The phenomenon of Baikal
The Red Book : vertebrates in Israel
Latin America and the Caribbean : a continental overview of environmental issues
Biodiversity issues for consideration in the planning, establishment and management of protected area sites and networks
Agroforestry and biodiversity conservation in tropical landscapes
Giant pandas : biology and conservation
Parques nacionales Costa Rica National Parks
The land use planning system : evaluating options for reform
    Corkindale, John

This paper examines some of the UK government's proposals against economic valuation criteria.
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme annual report
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