Environmental management

The practices listed in this catalogue are selected on the basis of their potential capacity to mitigate the foreseeable negative effects of climate change, particularly recurrent droughts, floods, strong winds/sand storms and high temperatures.

Sobre la cuenca del río Santa se han realizado numerosos foros y se han emitarget_ido diversas declaraciones,1 orientados a promover el mejoramiento de su gestión. El Foro Agua Santa 2011 reconoce todas las iniciativas realizadas sobre gestión ambiental y del recurso hídrico en la cuenca, pero asume que se requieren aún más y mayores esfuerzos.

Pakistan is facing increasing environmental and developmental challenges caused by climate change and the country is already experiencing phenomena like high glacial melt, flash floods, prolonged droughts, cyclones and abrupt changes in its weather. This video documentary captures the climatic events that have happened in the past and the ones that Pakistan could be facing in the near future.

Parte de la serie de folletos informativos producida en el marco del proyecto “Adaptación de la gestión de los recursos hídricos en la cuenca del río Santa”, por UICN-SUR. Incluye información sobre mecanismos para la implementación de medidas de mitigación y adaptación; esta última en los campos tecnológico, cultural, político, entre otros.

Ce document propose une série de projets de principes et de directives pour jeter les bases d’une planification de l’EbA. Ils sont destinés à un usage de planification d’adaptation nationale, par des institutions financières, et dans le cadre de projets de recherche.

Este documento propone un conjunto de principios y lineamientos que actúen como el fundamento para la planeación de la AbE. La intención es que éstos sean usados durante la planeación nacional de adaptación por parte de instituciones financieras y durante el diseño de proyectos e investigación.

This paper is a summary of a longer and fully referenced document by the same authors. These draft guidelines were developed by this group at a workshop and meeting held in Costa Rica in June 2011 to initiate a more formal and iterative process for Ecosystem Based Adaptation Guidelines which can be discussed at various international and regional events.

This document proposes a series of draft principles and guidelines that were produced at a workshop with participation of its authors in June 2011, with the aim to serve as a foundation for planning ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation. The principles are intended to be used by decision makers in national policy in national, territorial and sector planning initiatives, in financial planning, and in project and research design.

In 2009, IUCN-Oceania Regional Office in partnership with SOPAC and SPC established the Pacific Resource and Environmental Economics Network (PREEN). The PREEN was established in response to a need by the small but growing group of practitioners in the Pacific for a professional body to share information and access peer support to conduct natural resource and/or environmental economics in the region.