Management of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar) 5
... changing, and these changes impact on the capacity of ecosystems to deliver the services needed to sustain and improve human ...planning and management based upon the ...
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Meet our Experts STRP 2013-2015
... University of South Pacific’s (USP) longest serving academic staff ...BA and MA in geography from the University of California, Berkeley, and a ...most of the USP member countries, with ...
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Actions for the restoration of the biodiversity of the forest ecosystems in Cuba
... realizable and constitute an answer to some of the issues Cuba is facing at the ...decentralization of the environmental administration reinforces the grade of responsibility and the ...
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Restoration of ecosystem services and biodiversity: conflicts and opportunities
... [12] and many subsequent publications [14] suggest that biodiversity and provision of ecosystem services are positively related, with the implication that management to enhance ...
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Draft Resolution XI.6 Partnerships and synergies with Multilateral Environmental Agreements and other institutions
... liaison and collaboration among Ramsar Administrative Authorities and focal points and the focal points of related conventions and agreements, including as appropriate through their ...
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Policy Paper circulated during the World Summit on Sustainable Development by The Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape (SAEFL), the Bureau of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
... more and more support for an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) ...interpretations of the word ...store and distribute the resource to the different ...
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The water-land-food-energy-climate nexus for a resource efficient Europe.
... number of well-known, existing thematic knowledge models will provide detailed outputs for specific aspects of the ...water and land-use models, with most of them considering the ...
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Ethical code in the public accounting profession
... area of concern for CPA firms is the exposure to lawsuits from consulting ...develop and implement a “turnaround plan” for Merry-Go Round Enterprises (MacDonald, ...negligence, and lack of ...
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Restoration of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on Agricultural Land
... representative of different economies in the world, on: ecological footprint, percentage of cropland and grassland footprint on ecological footprint, percentage of area of agricultural ...
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Domestic violence and the role of the dentist from the public health perspective: a review of scientific literature
... online, and consistent results ...different and complementary times, thus in the first moment aimed to refine the initial selection of articles, using a preliminary test of relevance, in which ...
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Estadístiques de turisme a Barcelona : síntesi. 2012
... province of Barcelona, conducted by the Laboratori de Turisme de la Diputació de Barcelona (Laboratory for Tourism of Barcelona Provincial Council) throughout the ...phases of fieldwork, validation ...
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Global change and the uncertain future of biodiversity in Mediterranean-type ecosystems: insights from a strategic foresight process
... fire management might have on long-term preservation of these species associated with early-suc- cessional stages in highly dynamic ...threatened and endangered ...maturation and spread due to ...
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Contribute to the Study of Vertical Distribution of Conventional No-Till Seeders and Spatial Variability of Seed Depth Placement of Maize in Alentejo, Portugal
... Karayel and Ozmerzi ...stand of uniform plants that develop at a similar rate and having the appropriate plant population (Desbiolles, ...for management of the crop because growth ...
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HABITAT III POLICY PAPER 9 – URBAN SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY
... level and the New Urban Agenda highlight the role envisioned for Urban Services, Mobility and Technologies in fulfilling ...goals and the urban fabric and the role urban services ...
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The role of tropical dry forests for biodiversity, carbon and water conservation in the neotropics: lessons learned and opportunities for its sustainable management
... reservoirs and dams are meant to avoid sedimentation and pollution of major rivers, streams and water reservoirs from elevated nutrient levels due to fertilizers, animal waste and soil ...
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Ecosystem services, targets, and indicators for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
... extent of targets relating to those ...herds of caribou (Rangifer spp) are expected to converge in the Arctic as suitable habitat increases as a result of global warming (Tyler ...conservation ...
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An Integrated Framework for linking wetland conservation and wise use with poverty eradication
... use and poverty eradication can be direct (e.g., wise use of resources that support livelihoods) and indirect ...use of wetlands contributes to climate change mitigation and thus can ...
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Biodiversity and ecosystem processes in tropical ecosystems
... tirst and third of these hypotheses requires detailed local experi ...feet and niche hypotheses is re latively straightforward because they make stri kingly different ...the of some species ...
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WORLD RESOURCES 2000-2001: PEOPLE AND ECOSYSTEMS. THE FRAYING WEB OF LIFE
... construction of dams has helped provide drinking water for much of the world’s population, increased agricultural output through irrigation, eased transport, and provided flood control and ...
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