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Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789558177440
Author : Marianne Kettunen,Patrick ten Brink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136213106
Protected areas (PAs) contain biodiversity and ecosystems of high conservation value. In addition, these areas provide a range of benefits, both direct and indirect, to our societies and economies, i.e. so called ecosystem services. These services include, for example, an ecosystem's ability to regulate floods and climate, purify water, secure the pollination of crops, and create opportunities for recreation, culture and tourism. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the socio-economic benefits of PAs and PA networks and provides step-by-step practical guidance on identifying, assessing and valuing the various ecosystem services and related benefits provided by PAs. It also aims to improve the communication of PA benefits to different stakeholders and the general public. It is shown that identifying and valuing the socio-economic benefits of PAs can be beneficial for several reasons. Demonstrating socio-economic importance of a protected site can significantly increase political and stakeholder support for the site and resolve conflicts between different interest groups. This can lead to positive changes in policies and decision-making. Insights on PA benefits are also needed to identify a combination of actions and land use practices that best support the sustainable and equitable utilisation of these benefits, while retaining a site’s conservation goals. Finally, demonstrating different benefits can help to discover alternative and sustainable sources for financing the management of PAs.
Author : Pushpam Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136538797
Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination and flood control, all of which are dependent on biodiversity. They are predominantly public goods with limited or no markets and do not command any price in the conventional economic system, so their loss is often not detected and continues unaddressed and unabated. This in turn not only impacts human well-being, but also seriously undermines the sustainability of the economic system. It is against this background that TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project was set up in 2007 and led by the United Nations Environment Programme to provide a comprehensive global assessment of economic aspects of these issues. This book, written by a team of international experts, represents the scientific state of the art, providing a comprehensive assessment of the fundamental ecological and economic principles of measuring and valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity, and showing how these can be mainstreamed into public policies. This volume and subsequent TEEB outputs will provide the authoritative knowledge and guidance to drive forward the biodiversity conservation agenda for the next decade.
Author : Marta Echavarria
Publisher : IIED
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : 9781843694847
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9782831714271
Author : Hagos, Fitsum,van Rooijen, Daniel,Haileslassie, Amare,Yehualashet, H.,Indries, H.
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789290908685
Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Business Year
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The Business Year: Ecuador 2022 is our seventh annual publication on the Ecuadorian economy. Our research was carried out in the midst of COVID-19 and a major shift along the political spectrum following the election of Guillermo Lasso. A key objective of this publication is to measure the extent to which Lasso has fueled the business landscape with optimism. In this 176-page edition, which features interviews with top business leaders from across the economy, as well as news and analysis, we cover: green economy, finance, hydrocarbons, mining, industry and commerce, telecoms and IT, transport, construction, real estate, agriculture, health, education, and tourism.
Author : Ina T. Porras
Publisher : IIED
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Watershed management
ISBN : 9781843696537
Author : Cynthia Rosenzweig,William D. Solecki,Stephen A. Hammer,Shagun Mehrotra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139497404
Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to establish the current understanding of climate change adaptation and mitigation at the city level is urgent. To meet this goal a coalition of international researchers - the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) - was formed at the time of the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York in 2007. This book is the First UCCRN Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities. The authors are all international experts from a diverse range of cities with varying socio-economic conditions, from both the developing and developed world. It is invaluable for mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban sustainability officers and urban planners; and researchers, professors and advanced students.
Author : Mark Smith,Dolf de Groot,Ger Bergkamp
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Water use
ISBN : 9782831709581
This guide aims to provide practical tools to non specialists-essentially water resources planners, river basin managers, non-governmental organizations and private sector operators. It links the most recent practice on payments for hydrological services to current discourse on integrated water resources management and looks into the different aspects to consider when exploring the potential feasibility of establishing reward or payments for ecosystem services related to water security. Pay demystifies concepts and jargon, and through a series of tools, case studies and stories from around the world, describes pitfalls to avoid and provides hints to fill gaps in knowledge. It is based on a demand-driven approach, linking text, tools and illustrations to key questions emerging from current and potential practitioners.
Author : Nicole J. Wilson,Joanne Nelson,Sameer H. Shah,Leila M. Harris
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039215607
This republished Special Issue highlights recent and emergent concepts and approaches to water governance that re-centers the political in relation to water-related decision making, use, and management. To do so at once is to focus on diverse ontologies, meanings and values of water, and related contestations regarding its use, or its importance for livelihoods, identity, or place-making. Building on insights from science and technology studies, feminist, and postcolonial approaches, we engage broadly with the ways that water-related decision making is often depoliticized and evacuated of political content or meaning—and to what effect. Key themes that emerged from the contributions include the politics of water infrastructure and insecurity; participatory politics and multi-scalar governance dynamics; politics related to emergent technologies of water (bottled or packaged water, and water desalination); and Indigenous water governance.
Author : WWAP
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Water quality management
ISBN : 9789231002649
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063043289
Author : Arild Angelsen
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9786028693035
REDD+ must be transformational. REDD+ requires broad institutional and governance reforms, such as tenure, decentralisation, and corruption control. These reforms will enable departures from business as usual, and involve communities and forest users in making and implementing policies that a ect them. Policies must go beyond forestry. REDD+ strategies must include policies outside the forestry sector narrowly de ned, such as agriculture and energy, and better coordinate across sectors to deal with non-forest drivers of deforestation and degradation. Performance-based payments are key, yet limited. Payments based on performance directly incentivise and compensate forest owners and users. But schemes such as payments for environmental services (PES) depend on conditions, such as secure tenure, solid carbon data and transparent governance, that are often lacking and take time to change. This constraint reinforces the need for broad institutional and policy reforms. We must learn from the past. Many approaches to REDD+ now being considered are similar to previous e orts to conserve and better manage forests, often with limited success. Taking on board lessons learned from past experience will improve the prospects of REDD+ e ectiveness. National circumstances and uncertainty must be factored in. Di erent country contexts will create a variety of REDD+ models with di erent institutional and policy mixes. Uncertainties about the shape of the future global REDD+ system, national readiness and political consensus require exibility and a phased approach to REDD+ implementation.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Office Bureau International du Travail
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Clean energy industries
ISBN : 9221268683
Addresses two of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century: achieving environmental sustainability and turning the vision of decent work for all into a reality. Shows that not only are both challenges urgent, but they are also intimately linked and will have to be addressed together. Demonstrates that while it is certain that environmental degradation and climate change will increasingly require enterprises and labour markets to react and adjust, the goal of environmentally sustainable economies will not be attained without the active contribution of the world of work. Mentions the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), the Benzene Convention, 1971 (No. 136), the Human Resources Development Convention, 1975 (No. 142), the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144), the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), the Chemicals Convention, 1990 (No. 170), and the Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents Convention, 1993 (No. 174).
