The overarching objective of this framework is to contribute to the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) into business activities and to firmly position BES conservation among the private sector by engaging the top management of companies in the development, implementation and disclosure of BES policies and practices, in order to reduce risks, manage related impacts and seize opportunities.
This book is designed to help conservation organisations, community-based organisations and protected area managers plan and run effective ecotourism businesses. It was created as part of the Business Skills Transfer Programme for Ecotourism Development, a joint effort by IUCN and Kuoni Group aimed at supporting conservation organisations in managing ecotourism-related businesses through business skills, knowledge and experience sharing.
This publication presents innovative ways that have been used to influence policy processes, from community pressure groups through elected and unelected leaders, to scientific discourse at the levels of directors of economic planning and conservation. The book analyzes experiences from a variety of conservation interventions by IUCN and other agencies, primarily in Eastern Africa, and challenges the notion of policymaking as a cyclical process.
This report draws on lessons learned from observations made at seven case study sites, all of which permit economic activities, especially recreation, that are not harmful to the biological values and natural functions of the area. There is now a need to translate these experiences into policy instruments. The guidelines, summarised in some 20 pages, offer sound and well-documented advice on how to proceed.
Bangladesh is the innocent victim of climate change due to its low riparian flat coastal landscape and high population density with poor financial capacity to respond to the adverse impact of climate change. Natural hazards like floods, droughts, cyclones and sea level rise are increasing day by day that will push poorer section of the population to the very margin of survival. Bangladesh government realizes that it is necessary to raise her voice in global forum in an effort to minimize impact of global warming largely caused by developed countries.
It is now unequivocally established that climate change is a reality, and the adversities of climatic transformations pose one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. The publication on "Protocol for Monitoring of Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Variability in Bangladesh" is a modest yet pioneering attempt to proffer a systemic methodology to quantify and record the impacts of climate change across selected key sectors.
La presente guía es un instrumento que permite hacer una rápida valoración del nivel de aplicación del Enfoque Ecosistémico (EE), por medio de un conjunto de preguntas que abordan aspectos fundamentales de la gestión de los ecosistemas para poder afirmar que el enfoque se está aplicando en un espacio geográfico determinado, en un proyecto o en algún esquema de intervención del territorio.
Se trata del primer documento en español sobre el enfoque de Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas, que UICN promueve a escala mundial. Se fundamenta en una revisión de literatura especializada y dirigida a técnicos y profesionales que trabajan en actividades relacionadas con la adaptación al cambio climático. La publicación expone lo que es la Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas (AbE) y cómo esta funciona en la práctica incluyendo algunos beneficios pontenciales; expone el vínculo entre adaptación y mitigación del cambio climático, así como la articulación entre la AbE y el enfoque ecosistémico.
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. The documentary also collects the individual and collective measures which address the challenges lying ahead.
Esta obra presenta la situación de la gobernanza ambiental e indígena en Bolivia y Perú, a fin de ampliar la discusión sobre la gobernanza, sus principios normativos y políticas de aplicación, a través de ejemplos claros y puntuales. La gobernanza ambiental está relacionada con la protección de las áreas protegidas, la conservación de los recursos naturales y en el debate socioambiental y político sobre el cambio climático.
