Handbook
Biodiversity plays an important role in the day-to-day life of a hotel: from the food in the restaurant and wood in furniture and fittings, to the amenities in the spa, the products of biodiversity are everywhere inside hotels. Outside, plants and animals make a hotel’s public areas and gardens attractive for guests, while beyond the hotel gate, national parks, green spaces, coasts and...
The ABS Series represents a response to two realities: First, the ABS issue is controversial, and technically and legally complex. Because of the constant international concern over controversial policy and political issues, primary focus of all writing on ABS has been focused on political positions and advocacy, even where the expressed purpose of a particular document is “practical...
Climate change may pose risks and/or create opportunities for development efforts in many countries. The USAID Global Climate Change Team developed this Adaptation Guidance Manual to assist Missions and other partners to understand how climate change may affect their project outcomes and identify adaptation options to integrate into the design for more resilient projects. In developing the...
Throughout the world, land degradation is internationally recognised as a threat to the global environmental commons. It is associated with desertification, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, climate change, sedimentation, and pollution of international waters.
At the Second GEF Assembly in 2002, participants agreed to designate land degradation, primarily desertification and...
This handbook aims to be a road map for anyone working with the community to achieve environmental change, including environmental educators and managers, Bushcare or Landcare coordinators, local government environment officers, and community development officers. It is especially designed for the many people with natural science backgrounds now involved in community projects to conserve...
Throughout the world, managing protected areas involves people and organisations in widely differing roles. Field managers, whether working for an agency or for a community, deal with concrete problems and responsibilities on a daily basis and directly enjoy the rewards that only nature and culture at their best are able to provide. Local authorities and residents – administrators,...
In an effort to save species and overall biodiversity, a number of approaches to conservation have been suggested. Some approaches focus on species’ habitats, ecosystems, or other area-based classifications such as hotspots, ecoregions, Important Bird Areas, Important Plant Areas, and so on. Such approaches seek to save nature in a place or region by ensuring that the ecosystem processes...
This training manual defines the concepts of gender, presents the CGISP gender strategy, clarifying gender analysis and why it is used in CSISP, and looks to planning for change.
For many years there has been the assumption that the negative impacts of climate change and the efforts to mitigate them have similar effects on both women and men. However, the world has progressively recognized that women and men experience climate change differently, and that gender inequalities worsen women's coping capacity. It has also been acknowledged that women are important actors...
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