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Case studies carried out within the 'Our Common Dignity Initiative 2011-2016 Initiative: Rights-Based Approaches in World Heritage'
    Sinding-Larsen, Amund | Larsen, Peter Bille

The objective of the Our Common Dignity initiative has been to contribute towards building awareness of rights issues in World Heritage and heritage management, to promote ‘good practice’ approaches to rights and their enabling conditions, and to develop and recommend relevant tools and guidelines in World Heritage, from tentative list nomination through to management. This document summarizes some of the independent case studies initiated by ICOMOS Norway and its partners. The purpose of presenting these case studies now is to illustrate rights issues being discussed in various geo-cultural regions.
[IUCN CEC] Annual report 2016
Annual report 2016 : IUCN Washington D.C. Office
Pastoralisme et économie verte – un lien naturel?
   

Cette étude met l'accent sur le potentiel actuel et futur de l'élevage pour réaliser une gestion durable et des résultats de l'économie verte provenant des parcours du monde. Elle synthétise les données existantes et utilise des exemples pratiques du pastoralisme en Europe, en Amérique latine, en Amérique du Nord, en Asie centrale, occidentale et Australe, en Australie et dans toute l'Afrique pour démontrer les caractéristiques inhérentes au système pour une durabilité adaptative et quelques-unes des possibilités et défis clés pour la promotion du développement dans les parcours. Finalement, l'étude identifie les conditions clés requises pour le pastoralisme de s'acquitter de son rôle potentiel dans une économie verte.
Freshwater key biodiversity areas in Canada
   

Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are areas contributing significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity. KBAs need to be managed to ensure environmental flows are sufficient to support these fragile freshwater ecosystems. The information and data provided in this report will help guide conservation actions and management, development of policies and make informed decisions regarding development activities that may impact freshwater ecosystems in Canada
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2
   

Natural World Heritage sites are internationally recognised as having the highest global nature conservation priority. As of November 2017, there are 241 natural and mixed (both cultural and natural) World Heritage sites, representing about 0.1% of the total number of protected areas globally, but yet with a total coverage of 294 million hectares, accounting for 8% of the combined surface of terrestrial and 6% of marine protected areas. Monitoring World Heritage sites is an extremely important barometer of the effectiveness of the global community’s overall conservation effort. The IUCN World Heritage Outlook system is both forward-looking and proactive. It helps determine where natural World Heritage sites and the critical values they protect are heading, how we can anticipate their future needs, and how we can optimise their contribution to human well-being. It also seeks to celebrate and amplify success, supporting the role of World Heritage sites in demonstrating excellence.
National marine plastic litter policies in EU Member States
    Arroyo Schnell, A. | Gómez Girón, E. | Klein, N. | Sousa, J.

The aim of this study is to provide an overview of national legal instruments in all European Union Member States related to protection of the marine environment from plastic pollution, and to support upcoming European policy efforts such as the EU Strategy on Plastics, but also other future efforts to tackle this global environmental challenge. However, it is important to note that this report does not claim to give a comprehensive overview of all EU Member States’ existing national policies related to marine litter. The report is based on information collected during first half of 2017 from EU Member States on existing policies directly tackling marine litter at national level.
Global land outlook
Analyse des systèmes de production du perimetre irrigue de Bagré (Burkina Faso) : rapport final
    Bazin, Frédéric

En partenariat avec Bagrépôle, la Global Water Initiative a lancé en 2015 une étude pour évaluer les revenus agricoles des producteurs et les comparer avec des besoins familiaux (seuils de sécurité alimentaire et de pauvreté). Cette étude, qui est également menée régionalement sur des barrages au Sénégal et au Mali, cherche à comprendre dans quelle mesure et à quelles conditions les périmètres aménagés de Bagré permettent de réduire la pauvreté et l’insécurité alimentaire.
The EPIC project : demonstrating that nature can reduce the impacts of disasters
Cropland restoration as an essential component to the forest landscape restoration approach—global effects of wide-scale adoption
House reef marine guide
Mujeres de los páramos
    Aguirre, Daniela | Armero-Estrada, Milena | Hammen, Maria Clara van der | Hildahl, Karen | Pérez, Cecilia | Poats, Susan V. | Rodríguez, Mariela | Sánchez, Didier | Trujillo, Mónica

El presente libro tiene como objetivo mostrar experiencias obtenidas en Colombia, Ecuador y Perú fruto de actividades dirigidas hacia la adaptación al cambio climático y la conservación de los páramos; actividades que, a su vez, han sido dirigidas principalmente hacia mujeres y con un enfoque de género. Se busca, con el análisis de estas experiencias, difundir conocimiento y compartir aprendizajes con personas y organizaciones que trabajan en la conservación de los ecosistemas alto-andinos. Con la información construida desde los tres países, se espera contribuir a temas de planificación, así como la formulación y aplicación de políticas para la gestión de los páramos y guiar las estrategias de conservación en esos ecosistemas.
Caged in the city
    Eaton, James A. | Nguyen, D.T. Minh | Willemsen, Madelon

With 48 threatened bird species, and the highest number of breeding endemic bird species (11) in mainland Southeast Asia, Viet Nam is a global conservation priority. Many of these threatened species are hunted unsustainably for wildlife trade. Very little is known about the current true scale of the trade in Viet Nam as the most recent research was conducted in 2008. To fill this knowledge gap, and to support bird conservation efforts in the region, TRAFFIC undertook a full inventory of the bird markets across the country’s two main cities—Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).
Pendants, powder and pathways
Guide de sécurisation foncière sur les aménagements hyro-agricoles au Niger
   

Le Niger compte aujourd’hui 85 aménagements hydro-agricoles (AHA). Avec la pression démographique et la raréfaction des ressources naturelles disponibles pour l’activité agricole, l’informalité de la gestion du foncier des AHA et du statut des personnes qui les exploitent est devenue problématique. Face à ces contestations, les services de l’ONAHA se sont lancés depuis 2014, avec l’appui de la Global Water Initiative (GWI), dans un processus visant à expérimenter, formaliser, puis généraliser une démarche de sécurisation foncière des AHA existants et futurs au Niger. Ce guide reprend et explicite en détail cette démarche et les conditions à réunir, depuis la mise en place des équipes opérationnelles chargées de la sécurisation jusqu’à la délivrance des contrats aux exploitants et leur enregistrement. Destinée en priorité aux équipes nationales et régionales de l’ONAHA et de la direction générale du Génie rural, il vise à faciliter la mise en œuvre sur le terrain et la généralisation des opérations de sécurisation foncière des AHA au Niger au profit de l’Etat et des exploitants.
1st Asia Bonn Challenge High-Level Roundtable
   

The 1st Asia Bonn Challenge High-Level Roundtable was held on the 9th and 10th of May 2017 in Palembang, South Sumatra. The event was organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia and the Provincial Government of South Sumatra, with the support of IUCN. The 1st Asia Roundtable sought to raise the ambition for FLR in the region, as a key approach for enhancing the wellbeing of both people and nature.
Women’s participation and gender considerations in country representation, planning and reporting to the BRS Conventions
    Gilligan, M. | Sabater, L.

The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions cooperate to protect human health and the environment from the negative effects of hazardous pollutants. This Environment and Gender Information (EGI) platform analysis explores how women are represented as delegates to the Conferences of the Parties (COPs), members and observers of Conventions’ Subsidiary Bodies, and national focal points. It investigates how gender equality considerations are included in Parties’ reporting mechanisms to the BRS Conventions, including initial National Implementation Plans (NIPs) to the Stockholm Convention and the most recent National Reports to the Basel and Stockholm Conventions. This study also explores how gender considerations are included in the Rotterdam Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Circular.
Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities
   

Despite increasing recognition of the importance of ecosystem-based approaches for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, implementation remains mostly underdeveloped worldwide. Lack of knowledge on the implementation process present an important barrier. This publication presents details on Ecosystems Protecting Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC), a global initiative which promoted ecosystem-based approaches for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in six countries. The publication provides a detailed description of the project’s operational approach and draws lessons from the case studies to inform and guide best practices for actions on the ground.
Ramsar et la Convention du patrimoine mondial : au confluent du succès
Las Convenciones de Ramsar y del Patrimonio Mundial, convergiendo hacia el éxito
Ramsar and World Heritage Conventions : converging towards success
Guidelines for tourism partnerships and concessions for protected areas: generating sustainable revenues for conservation and development
    Eagles, Paul F. J. | Snyman, Susan | Spenceley, Anna

Many Parties to the CBD underutilise tourism as a means to contribute towards the financial sustainability of protected areas. The development of the present guidelines on tourism partnerships and concessions for protected areas is a response to this under-utilized potential and to recent decisions of the CBD on tourism.
What matters : investing in results to build strong, vibrant communities
   

Many organizations do amazing work and provide essential services that make an important, positive impact on the people they serve. But we live in a system oriented around activities and outputs, and this output orientation forces too many to spend too much time and effort complying with red tape, leaving no flexibility to innovate. Fortunately, we can do better. Orienting programs and funding around outcomes fundamentally changes this dynamic. In an outcomes-oriented system, service providers and funders partner to effect lasting outcomes they both seek. But, to realize the potential of this new approach, we need to be clear about how this contrasts with business-as-usual and focus on the hard work ahead. Reorienting our system around outcomes and results requires a new social contract between those who deliver social services and those who pay for them. In communities across the country, everyday people in government agencies, community-based service organizations, and charitable foundations are already showing how orienting around outcomes and results is practical and powerful. They are making the extraordinary routine. The chapters in this book capture some of their experiences.
Protecting life below water
    Horwitz, Debbie Margolis | Schneider, Jill

The Annie Sunbeam and Friends is a comic book to promote and share information on Life Below Water, SDG Goal #14. Illustrated by famed DC Comics artist Bernard Chang, the 12-page comic will help readers worldwide understand the importance of protecting life under water. This is the first comic in the Comics Uniting Nations series to deal with the issue of oceans, marine protection and restoration.
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