Environmental monitoring

El desarrollo de la EIA se ha enfocado principalmente a la etapa de análisis ambiental de los proyectos previa a la obtención del permiso ambiental, dejando a la etapa de seguimiento con un menor grado de desarrollo. Por este motivo, el Proyecto EIA-Centroamérica impulsó el análisis de la etapa del seguimiento ambiental en tres estudios de caso de Estudios de Impacto Ambiental de Panamá, Costa Rica y El Salvador.

The Guiana Shield region contains more than 25% of the world’s tropical rainforests, most still in pristine condition. The Guiana Shield Initiative is working to preserve this ecologically important and unique area of the earth. In order to do so, up-to-date and accurate information is needed – a greater part of which could be fulfilled by the development of a suitable monitoring system based on remote sensing methods.

This series presents the results of an investigation by IUCN’s Global Change Programme into the possible implications of predicted global change for natural systems and their management. This publication examines issues specific to terrestrial ecosystems.

This report signals a new approach to ocean monitoring and management that lays a solid base using the principles of ecology and sustainable development while transcending traditional geopolitical and disciplinary divisions. LMEs are relatively large regions, often including the territorial waters of more than one nation, thus making coordination of monitoring and management highly desirable.