Lebanon

This field guide aims at giving comprehensive information about the key species endangered, vulnerable or critically endangered in Lebanese and Jordanian protected areas of the MEET project.

Building on the experience of Holcim Lebanon in rehabilitating one of its degraded quarries after excavation activities, this report will provide guidelines for rehabilitation practices in Lebanon and the Mediterranean. It will suggest milestones towards a successful rehabilitation process and discuss the challenges and constraints facing restoration initiatives while highlighting the main elements and lessons learned for future rehabilitation attempts in limestone quarries. 

This Book comes as a watershed of the work in IBSAR on the indigenous plants of Lebanon, where teams of IBSAR researchers have deployed their efforts in learning about local plants and their traditional use as a basis for valorizing them.

This report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how peacekeeping operations affect and are affected by natural resources and environmental conditions. The report is divided into two main parts. Part 1 reviews the environmental management of peacekeeping operations and showcases good practices, technologies and behaviours that have already been adopted.