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Agri-Environmental Measures for Biodiversity Assessment and Conservation (AEMBAC) was a three-year EU 5th Framework project, co-financed by the Nando Peretti Foundation and coordinated by IUCN, that concluded in February 2004. A consortium of experts from seventeen institutions in seven Western and Central European countries formed a partnership with the core goal of developing a single...
Vegetation and land cover information have been generally recognised as the basis for planning and management and for detailed habitat inventories. The design and execution of these comprehensive inventories of natural resources, coupled with scientific assessments using Remote Sensing and GIS tools, have often led to a clear definition of management priorities. Vegetation management depends...
Forest ecosystem services play a significant role in India’s economic development, and a World Bank study into India’s forest sector has recognised the huge potential to develop markets for forest products and services (World Bank, 2007). Forestry is the second largest land use in India next to agriculture. The recorded forest area of the country is 76.52 million hectares, which is...
A map of the world, or of any continent (except Australia), is a patchwork quilt of countries of various sizes and shapes. Sometimes they have boundaries that make geographical sense. Other times, the boundaries are straight lines, imposed by colonial powers centuries ago. Today, territorial integrity is a foundation principle of the relations between governments, but even so, boundary...
Indicative of the intense interest and activity in this area of conservation biology, there has been a wealth of new material over the last decade. This includes several published conference proceedings, critical reviews, and a variety of papers reporting field studies, computer simulations and application of conceptual principles to land-use planning. There is also a rapidly growing number of...
Many countries and communities are vulnerable to natural disasters related to their location and geophysical context; while the risk of technological disasters exists everywhere. Disaster risk reduction is one of the great challenges of development. Disaster risks can be minimised and losses substantially reduced by enabling local bodies such as Unions, VDCs and Municipalities to undertake...
Water management affects our environment, society and culture. Finding solutions to mitigate negative impacts and adapt to different geographical conditions and climate regions, requires an approach that unites sound and unbiased science with social and policy considerations. To meet this challenges the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) of Germany launched a major international...
This report investigates whether a technology transfer mechanism can help to reach a cooperative outcome, in a game on a climate change treaty that involves emission caps for both developed and developing countries. A climate change treaty without the inclusion of developing countries and their acceptance of emission limits is likely to be ineffective. Too little research and development of...
This study of objectives and key research themes of mountain research institutes/centres in Europe was carried out in the framework of the collaboration between the Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS) and the Mountain Forum (MF) 2006-2008.
The study should help in fostering synergies between efforts of European research organisations, one of the main objectives of the Mountain...
This is the sixth in IUCN’s series of Working Papers which provide global overviews of natural World Heritage sites in the major biomes on earth. The theme of this Working Paper 6 is mountains, a theme chosen to coincide with the designation by the UN as the International Year of the Mountains. The objectives of this Working Paper are to: (1) identify and analyze the existing natural and...
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