Wetland ecosystems
Healthy wetlands, healthy people
... Specific data for malaria risk in Africa have also been used to predict increased risk in exposures of 16-28%, but such analyses do not account adequately for non-climatic confounding factors (socio-economic issues, ...
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Resolution IX.1 Annex A A Conceptual Framework for the wise use of wetlands and the maintenance of their ecological character
... of change, although some other guidelines include some policy aspects. However, it is clear that these ‘interventions’ onto the indirect drivers of change are important to have in place if efforts to manage ...
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Water allocation and management
... of wetland ecosystems requires that management activities take place both within a wetland and in the surrounding catchment (see also the guidance in Ramsar Resolution ...desired wetland ...
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CONVENTION ON WETLANDS (Ramsar, Iran, 1971)
... entire wetland ecosystems, river basins and coastal and marine zones, such that eradication in one place may not prove effective at preventing further invasions, and URGES all Contracting Parties with ...
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Background materials concerning further development of guidance related to wetlands and water resource management
... 134. In a river basin which is already regulated, dams and flow control structures may be in place, and offstream water uses may have become well established over the years, but without making allowance for the water ...
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CONVENTION ON WETLANDS (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) 31 st Meeting of the Standing Committee
... some wetland development may be inevitable and that many developments have important benefits to ...promote wetland ecosystem services and the maintenance of wetland ecological character at ...
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Wetland Risk Assessment Framework
... 10. Step 2 - Identification of the adverse effects. This step evaluates the likely extent of adverse change or impact on the wetland. Such data should preferably be derived from field studies, as field data are ...
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Wetland Resources and Priorities for Wetland Inventory (GRoWI), from which it was indicated to
... for wetland inventory and data management, including the use of remote sensing and low-cost and user-friendly geographic information systems, and to report their findings to the 8 th Meeting of the Conference of ...
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Wetland Risk Assessment Framework
... 12. Step 4 - Identification of the risk. This involves integration of the results from the assessment of the likely effects with those from the assessment of the likely extent of the problem, in order to estimate the ...
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NATIONAL REPORT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR THE PERIOD 2003-2005
... Asian Wetland Inventory (AWI) was developed in Russia and Central Asian countries in 2002, under coordination of the Wetlands International - Russia Programme and with support from the Netherlands ...Asian ...
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Shadegan Wetland integrated management plan
... the wetland is probably the most important factor affecting the sustainability of its ecological and economical ...the wetland. Increasing inflows to the wetland from untreated drainage resources ...
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An Integrated Framework for linking wetland conservation and wise use with poverty eradication
... v) The inherent relationships amongst livelihood systems across various socio- political, spatial and ecological scales. It is apparent that livelihood-related issues where the environment is implicated cannot be solved ...
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About this series of handbooks
... that wetland managers and those agencies concerned with protection and maintenance of the ecological character of wetlands should be able to influence and make input to groundwater management plans and ...from ...
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About this series of handbooks
... 9. In most cases, site-specific conservation cannot be achieved in isolation from general wise use considerations. Wetlands are exceptionally vulnerable to changes in the quantity or quality of their water supply which ...
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Addressing change in wetland ecological character
... In the first year of the project, emphasis was placed on the assessments of tsunami damage. This led to science-based information on the areas where important coastal ecosystems were destroyed, and about the ...
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Wetland Tourism: Romania – The Danube Delta
... The DDBR includes 20 strictly protected sites covering a total of 50,904 hectares (8.7% of the Reserve’s surface), areas which contain the very best examples of the Reserve’s natural terrestrial and aquatic ...
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A Framework for Wetland Inventory
... for Wetland Inventory has been developed by the STRP, working with the Ramsar Bureau, Wetlands International, the Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist (Australia) and others, in response ...
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Resolution XI.13 An Integrated Framework for linking wetland conservation and wise use with poverty eradication
... 8. Wetland ecosystem services (the benefits people derive from wetlands) form an integral part of the livelihood strategy of wetland-dependent ...the wetland so as to optimize livelihood ...
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Topic of the quarter
... ocean ecosystems, including the importance of coastal wetlands for carbon storage, in maintaining our climate and in assisting policy makers to mainstream an oceans agenda into national and international climate ...
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Ramsar COP11 DR13, R ev.1 Draft Resolution XI.13, Rev. 1 An Integrated Framework for linking wetland conservation and wise use with poverty eradication
... how wetland degradation affects people‟s livelihoods and how maintenance or restoration of the ecological character of wetlands can contribute to poverty ...
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