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Prudence, justice and the good life : a typology of ethical reasoning in selected European national biodiversity strategies
    Eser, Uta | Müller, Albrecht | Neureuther, Ann-Kathrin | Seyfang, Hannah

Communication, participation and education (CEPA) are considered key to the implementation of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). To improve biodiversity communication, the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation commissioned an ethical expertise on good arguments in favour of biodiversity in 2011. This final report presents findings from an analysis of the German, Austrian, Swiss and EU biodiversity strategies with regard to their concepts of communication and ethics. The triad “Prudence, Justice and the Good Life” serves as an analytical tool to group and evaluate the arguments to be found in the strategies analysed. The study is addressed to people working in the field of biodiversity communication and education who are interested in ethical aspects of biodiversity politics. It provides an insight into the field of environmental ethics for non-philosophers and is meant to promote and enhance ethical debate in biodiversity communication. 
Environmental guidance note for disaster risk reduction : healthy ecosystems for human security and climate change adaptation (Japanese version)
    Ash, Neville | Murti, Radhika | Sudmeier-Rieux, Karen

This publication was developed to provide guidance on the benefits of and ways to integrate environmental concerns into disaster risk reduction strategies (DRR) at the local and national levels. As recognised and outlined within the Hyogo Framework for Action priority 4, healthy ecosystems and environmental management are considered key actions in DRR. Although the field of disaster risk management has evolved to recognize the need for addressing sustainable development issues for reducing risk, the environmental dimension has not to date received adequate attention and practical guidance.
Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector : regulatory tools
Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector : Integrated Biodiversity Management System (IBMS)
Guidelines for minimizing the negative impact to bats and other cave organisms from guano harvesting, ver.1.0
Toward quantitative scenarios of climate change impacts in Switzerland
Manual of procedures for wildlife disease risk analysis
    Jakob-Hoff, Richard M. | Kock, Richard | Lees, Caroline | MacDiarmid, Stuart C. | Miller, Philip S. | Travis, Dominic A.

This IUCN–OIE publication provides a ‘how-to’ guide that will be useful to the growing and diverse range of professionals involved in assessment and management of wildlife-associated disease risk scenarios. The document has been co-written by 22 specialists in the fields of wildlife disease ecology, epidemiology, risk analysis, modelling, disease surveillance, diagnostics, wildlife management, research, teaching and conservation planning. These authors have pooled their knowledge and experience to make tools and processes at the cutting edge of wildlife disease risk analysis accessible to a broad global audience in an effort to ensure healthy ecosystems through better decision making. This is a companion volume to the Guidelines for Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis.
Guidelines for wildlife disease risk analysis
   

This IUCN-OIE publication provides an overview of the science-based processes and tools available for wildlife disease risk analysis and their application to a broad range of contemporary issues, including human-wildlife interactions, domestic animal-wildlife interactions and the impacts of massive ecological change on biodiversity conservation. The guidelines will be of value to those policy makers and decision makers faced with the social, political and technical complexities involved in wildlife-disease-associated scenarios.This is a companion volume to the Manual of Procedures for Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis.
Framework support for implementing the Strategic plan of the IUCN Species Survival Commission
Contribución del sector privado a las áreas protegidas : estudios en Colombia y Perú
    Mora, Arturo | Pedraza, Natalia | Rios, Montserrat | Ruiz, Lucia | Sanclemente, Gloria

Esta publicación se enmarca en el proyecto “Implementación del Acuerdo sobre Medio Ambiente entre Canadá y Perú y del Acuerdo sobre Medio Ambiente entre Canadá y Colombia”, ejecutado por la Oficina de la Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza para América del Sur, con el apoyo financiero de Environment Canada (Ministerio de Medio Ambiente de Canadá). Se trata de una investigación acerca de los instrumentos previstos en los marcos legales y reglamentarios en ambos países que facilitan la vinculación del sector privado con aportes directos dirigidos a financiar  actividades para una adecuada gestión de las áreas protegidas públicas y privadas. Se presenta asimismo un caso de aplicación práctica de estas. herramientas.
Foreign investment, law and sustainable development : a handbook on agriculture and extractive industries
Biodiversity for business : A guide to using knowledge products delivered through IUCN
    Juffe-Bignoli, Diego

Without biodiversity, there is no business. Companies are therefore major players in this landscape and are responsible for their impact on biodiversity and ecosystem services. But, in order to act responsibly, they need information on where these biodiversity impact-related risks and opportunities lie. IUCN and WBCSD have joined forces to develop this manual that describes the various knowledge products that exist and explain how they can help businesses in assessing, valuing, managing and reporting on businesses’ impacts and dependencies on biodiversity, and in achieving compliance with environmental standards and certification schemes.
Acceso a recursos genéticos en América Latina y el Caribe : investigación, comercialización y cosmovisión indígena
    Mora, Arturo | Rios, Montserrat

Esta publicación ilustra tres temas principales que son la investigación científica y su relación con el ABS; las oportunidades y desafíos de mercado que ofrecen los recursos genéticos, y la cosmovisión indígena al respecto de la biodiversidad en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. Pertenece al Proyecto Regional GEF ABS LAC Fortalecimiento de la Implementación de los regímenes de Acceso a Recursos Genéticos y Distribución de Beneficios en América Latina y el Caribe,  ejecutado por UICN-Sur e implementado por PNUMA-ROLAC en ocho países de América Latina y el Caribe: Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Panamá, Perú y República Dominicana.
Assessment of python breeding farms supplying the international high-end leather industry
    Lyons, Jessica A. | Natusch, Daniel J.D.

This report is the first one delivered under the Python Conservation Partnership. Established in November 2013, the Partnership aims to contribute to the improved sustainability of the python skin trade and to help facilitate industry-wide change. The present report provides information on how pythons are farmed in Asia, farming’s impact on local livelihoods and the relative contribution of captive python skins to the total trade. In addition, recommendations are offered on the prospects of using both a ranching approach to supply python skins for trade and a closed-cycle captive breeding approach to meet current and future demands for python skins.
Guide explicatif du Protocole de Nagoya sur l'accès et le partage des avantages
    Ahrén, Mattias | Ali, Natasha | Cabrera Medaglia, Jorge A. | Greiber, Thomas | Kamau, Evanson C. | Nieto Carrasco, Jimena | Oliva, Maria Julia | Pena Moreno, Sonia | Perron-Welch, Frederic | Williams, China

The main goal of this Explanatory Guide is to facilitate the understanding of the legal obligations of the Parties under the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological Diversity. This guide is the product of a fruitful, constructive, and harmonious collaboration with ABS experts from different regions and international institutions who engaged with IUCN in the writing and reviewing of this Guide. This publication serves as an adaptable tool for future ABS capacity-building and awareness raising initiatives, as well as an important reference for countries in their efforts to implement the Nagoya Protocol and operationalize ABS in practice.
Biofuels and degraded land : the potential role of intensive agriculture in landscape restoration
    Jenkins, Martin | Maginnis, Stewart | McCormick, Nadine

<p>Many sectors, including biofuels, are targeting degraded lands yet there is no singular definition of what constitutes degraded lands. This publication represents the outcome of a cross-sectoral dialogue and builds on existing experiences both with the agricultural and biofuel sectors, as well as that of landscape restoration more broadly. A tentative, pragmatic framework of considerations is presented that could help decision makers realize the good intention behind investing in biofuel production or other intensive agriculture activities in degraded lands, without the pitfalls of contributing to even greater ecosystem simplification and further marginalising already vulnerable farming communities.</p>
Sabiduría y adaptación : el valor del conocimiento tradicional para la adaptación al cambio climático en América del Sur
    Lara, Rommel | Vides-Almonacid, Roberto

<p>La publicación recopila reflexiones y análisis de distintos autores, sobre la propuesta que hacen UICN y varias de sus organizaciones miembro sobre la necesidad y la importancia de reconocer el valor que tiene el conocimiento tradicional para la adaptación al cambio climático. Algunos de los temas que se analizan, son: enfoques para la adaptación al cambio climático, cambio climático y conocimientos tradicionales, conocimiento tradicional y políticas públicas, mujeres indígenas y cambio climático, adaptación comunitaria y gobernanza, entre otros.</p>
Detailed methodology for the preparation of the forest sector outlook study 2020-2040
   

This methodology report provides a detailed description of background, assumptions, approaches and modelling tools utilized in the UNECE Forest Sector Outlook Study 2020-2040 (FSOS) main report. The main report summarizes and discusses the forest sector impacts in UNECE region and subregions of reference and “what-if” scenarios depicting future trajectory of socioeconomic changes, climate change, and structural changes in demand, supply and trade of forest products, globally and in the UNECE region and subregions. More specifically, this methodology report provides detailed information on i) the selected sets of reference and the alternative “what-if” scenarios, including their development and selection process, assumptions, and justification, and ii) the modelling approaches and global models utilized to simulate and analyse those scenarios, including the Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) and an adjunct to the GFPM that generates separate estimates of carbon  sequestered in forest biomass and in harvested wood products.
Why nations fail : the origins of power, prosperity and poverty
    Acemoglu, Daron | Robinson, James A.

Drawing on fifteen years of original research, the authors conclusively show that it is our man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it). 
Best practices of island and coastal biosphere reserves
Sustainable remediation and rehabilitation of biodiversity and habitats of oil spill sites in the Niger Delta
   

This report presents the main findings and recommendations of the IUCN-Niger Delta Panel, regarding the sustainable remediation and rehabilitation of oil spill impacted sites in the Niger Delta. It has been prepared for the Shell Petroleum Development Company Ltd of Nigeria (SPDC) and represents the Panel’s first year of work. It therefore focuses on the first two of the four objectives set out for the Panel, namely to ‘develop and provide standards and best practice guidance on remediation and rehabilitation’ and ‘encourage uptake of the guidance by SPDC and others’. The overriding priority here is to provide advice for SPDC and make a start, as soon as possible, on the process of increasing effectiveness of ecosystem restoration in oil spill sites.
Metal recycling : opportunities, limits, infrastructure
   

A global move to a Product-Centric approach, in which recycling targets specific components of a product and devises ways to separate and recover them, is essential. This report addresses the challenges of recycling increasingly complex products.
A toolkit to support conservation by indigenous people and local communities
    Corrigan, Colleen | Hay-Edie, Terence

The present publication offers a suite of tools to support the effectiveness and viability of indigenous peoples and community conserved territories and areas (ICCAs) as governance structures for the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems. This toolkit presents a selection of practical resources, developed by numerous organisations, making them readily accessible to community-based organisations who manage ICCAs. In addition to being a valuable resource to practitioners, the toolkit provides a reminder that the achievement of the emerging post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs) will need to be linked to a comprehensive valuation of ecosystem services, and be spearheaded by local civil society initiatives coming from the grassroots.
Les aires marines protégées et la pêche
    Garcia, S. M. | Boncœur, Jean | Gascuel, D. (Didier)

Ce livre s'appuie sur une large synthèse de la littérature scientifique pour analyser les effets que peuvent avoir les aires marines protégées, à la fois sur les ressources halieutiques et sur les pêcheries qui en dépendent. 
Memoirs of a cedar : a history of deforestation, a future of conservation
    Abu-Izzeddin, Faisal

If the cedars of Lebanon could take they would tell a story of human greed and ignorance going all the way back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. With Gilgamesh's well-documented exploitation of the cedar forests began the age of the conspicuous consumption of Lebanon's natural resources -- which proved so popular that the destruction never stopped but in fact worsened as one civilization was defeated and another took its place. This book covers the story of that shameful exploitation as recorded by ancient and modern writers, and reminds us that the Lebanese have been just as guilty of the destruction of the cedar forests as the other ancient civilizations. 
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