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Author : Owen Day,Caribbean Natural Resources Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 1890792128
Author : Jakob Kronik,Dorte Verner
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821383817
This book addresses the social implications of climate change and climatic variability on indigenous peoples and communities living in the highlands, lowlands, and coastal areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. Across the region, indigenous people already perceive and experience negative effects of climate change and variability. Many indigenous communities find it difficult to adapt in a culturally sustainable manner. In fact, indigenous peoples often blame themselves for the changes they observe in nature, despite their limited emission of green house gasses. Not only is the viability of their livelihoods threatened, resulting in food insecurity and poor health, but also their cultural integrity is being challenged, eroding the confidence in solutions provided by traditional institutions and authorities. The book is based on field research among indigenous communities in three major eco-geographical regions: the Amazon; the Andes and Sub-Andes; and the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. It finds major inter-regional differences in the impacts observed between areas prone to rapid- and slow-onset natural hazards. In Mesoamerican and the Caribbean, increasingly severe storms and hurricanes damage infrastructure and property, and even cause loss of land, reducing access to livelihood resources. In the Columbian Amazon, changes in precipitation and seasonality have direct immediate effects on livelihoods and health, as crops often fail and the reproduction of fish stock is threatened by changes in the river ebb and flow. In the Andean region, water scarcity for crops and livestock, erosion of ecosystems and changes in biodiversity threatens food security, both within indigenous villages and among populations who depend on indigenous agriculture, causing widespread migration to already crowded urban areas. The study aims to increase understanding on the complexity of how indigenous communities are impacted by climate change and the options for improving their resilience and adaptability to these phenomena. The goal is to improve indigenous peoples rights and opportunities in climate change adaptation, and guide efforts to design effective and sustainable adaptation initiatives.
Author : C. D. Metcalfe,Erin R. Bennett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031373763
This book summarizes approaches that integrate the environmental, economic, and physical domains with the values, and needs of the population are necessary to develop sustainable strategies that will enhance the resilience of small islands, within the context of inter-island differences in geology, ecology, societal attitudes, governance, and human and economic resources. The impacts of coastal damage and flooding are predicted to worsen during this century due to rising sea levels and increases in the frequency and intensity of storms. The usual approach to coastal protection in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean is to view both the hazards and the solutions from the “Ocean Side” perspective and to react with “hard” engineering solutions. These structural engineering approaches prevent damage and disruptions to services associated with predictable events but leave communities vulnerable to future events that do not follow historical trends. Furthermore, engineered structures do not adequately address the systemic nature of climate change nor account for compounding threats (e.g., coincidence of hurricane season and global pandemics). To move from this traditional strategy for managing risks from coastal hazards, we need to consider a portfolio of solutions that enhance island protection and community resilience. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are gaining attention as practical and cost-effective approaches for mitigating climate-based stressors. However, deployment of NBS strategies requires spatial coordination within the context of “ridge to reef” or integrated water resource management (IWRM) approaches that include the creation of conditions for social acceptance, equity, effective governance, and financial incentives.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Bioclimatology
ISBN : NYPL:33433087183806
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781904882121
The third report from the Working Group on Climate Change and development considering the threat from climate change to the environment and human development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782831713151
Author : Sherry Heileman,Leslie John Walling,United Nations Environment Programme,Caribbean Community
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789280725261
Special edition for the Mauritius International Meeting for the 10-year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
Author : Allen Blackman,Rebecca Epanchin-Niell,Juha Siikamäki,Daniel Velez-Lopez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317906865
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse. It contains about half of the world’s remaining tropical forests, nearly one-fifth of its coastal habitats, and some of its most productive agricultural and marine areas. But agriculture, fishing and other human activities linked to rapid population and economic growth increasingly threaten that biodiversity. Moreover, poverty, weak regulatory capacity, and limited political will hamper conservation. Given this dilemma, it is critically important to design conservation strategies on the basis of the best available information about both biodiversity and the track records of the various policies that have been used to protect it. This rigorously researched book has three key aims. It describes the status of biodiversity in LAC, the main threats to this biodiversity, and the drivers of these threats. It identifies the main policies being used to conserve biodiversity and assesses their effectiveness and potential for further implementation. It proposes five specific lines of practical action for conserving LAC biodiversity, based on: green agriculture; strengthening terrestrial protected areas and co-management; improving environmental governance; strengthening coastal and marine resource management; and improving biodiversity data and policy evaluation.
Author : Thomas E. Lovejoy
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 817993084X
climate changes have had dramatic repercussions, including large numbers of extinctions and extensive shifts in species ranges
Author : Clive R. Wilkinson,Robert W. Buddemeier,UNEP-IOC-ASPEI-IUCN Global Task Team on the Implications of Climate Change on Coral Reefs
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9782831702049
A global overview of the potential impacts of climate change and sea level rise on coral reefs, and of the implications of such impacts for ecological sustainable use of coral reefs. Includes information on the status and trends of reef conservation and use around the world, and suggestions for management of reefs in a changing world.
Author : Lucia Fanning,Robin Mahon,Patrick McConney
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789089642424
An approach that encompasses the human and natural dimensions of ecosystems is one that the Wider Caribbean Region knows it must adopt and implement, in order to ensure the sustainable use of the region's shared marine resources. This volume contributes towards that vision, bringing together the collective knowledge and experience of scholars and practitioners within the Wider Caribbean to begin the process of assembling a road map towards marine ecosystem based management (EBM) for the region. It also serves a broader purpose of providing stakeholders and policy actors in each of the world's sixty-four Large Marine Ecosystems, with a comparative example of the challenges and information needs required to implement principled ocean governance generally and marine EBM in particular, at multiple levels. Additionally, the volume serves to supplement the training of graduate level students in the marine sciences by enhancing interdisciplinary understanding of challenges in implementing marine EBM.
Author : UNESCO. Office of the Caribbean
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : 9789231041549
Author : Dave D. Chadee,Joan M. Sutherland,John B. Agard
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 1629483176
This book covers many aspects of global climate change and flooding within the Caribbean region and examines the impacts of these on the agricultural sector in the Caribbean, on coastal and wetland ecosystems, and on the health sector in Trinidad. It provides an account of and the vulnerability and successful adaptation measures of Jamaica. A report of a Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) study provides a better understanding of the socio-economic impacts of flooding, people's role in exacerbating actual and potential flooding episodes and in evaluating their prevention measures. There are contributions on the cost of flooding, the role governments do and should play in flood prevention and backstopping, and the case is made for comprehensive law relating specifically to flooding. There are chapters on some hard and soft engineering tools that may be used for adaptation to flooding and other climate change events. Current climate modelling and projections are explained. This book is written for technical officers within ministries of government and both undergraduate and post graduate student's pursuing climate change courses and programs at Universities within small islands developing states and especially the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Mona and St. Augustine campuses. The various chapters are written by current academics from all three campuses, together with regional experts. This book, therefore, represents another example of Caribbean scientists/experts tackling Caribbean issues and developing adaptation measures relevant, not only to the region, but to the rest of the world.
Author : Kevin Hillstrom,Laurie Collier Hillstrom
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576076910
A concise yet thorough overview of the environmental issues, problems, and controversies facing Latin America and the Caribbean—from the tip of South America to the Windward Islands. Home to Earth's longest mountain range, largest river, and greatest rainforest, no region boasts greater geographic extremes, faces greater environmental dangers, and enjoys more economic potential from its biodiversity than Latin America and the Caribbean. What are the political and economic factors affecting the Amazon's rapidly disappearing rainforest? What is being done to harvest life-saving drugs from the plants of the Orinoco? And what lies behind the mysterious disappearance of Central America's frogs? The work includes essays, tables and figures, and an appendix titled International Environmental and Developmental Agencies, Organizations, and Programs on the World Wide Web. Latin America & the Caribbean examines a region waking up to its environmental problems and possibilities.
Author : John C. Pernetta
Publisher : Iucn
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : 2831701732
