This toolkit provides practical guidance for making use of the “Indicators of Resilience in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)” in the field. The indicators are a tool for engaging local communities in adaptive management of the landscapes and seascapes in which they liv...
Bergamini, N.
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Dunbar, W.
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Eyzaguirre, Pablo B.
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Ichikawa, K.
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Matsumoto, I.
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Mijatovic, D.
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Morimoto, Y.
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Remple, N.
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Salvemini, D.
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Suzuki, W.
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Vernooy, Ronnie
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United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies
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Bioversity International
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Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
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United Nations Environment Programme
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[Toolkit for the indicators of resilience in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes]
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Toolkit for the indicators of resilience in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes
This report presents the proceedings from the inception workshop for the project “Engaging stakeholders in using future scenarios to analyse the potential impacts of agricultural development in the Lake Victoria Basin”. This two-year project (2015-2017) aims to ensure that land-use related decisi...
United Nations Environment Programme
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[Engaging stakeholders in using future scenarios to analyse the potential impacts of agricultural development in the Lake Victoria Basin]
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Engaging stakeholders in using future scenarios to analyse the potential impacts of agricultural development in the Lake Victoria Basin
This assessment is founded on the understanding that Africa has the potential to significantly contribute to the world economy and to ensure healthy living conditions for citizens.
Project report on the conservation of animal genetic resources. Remedies for conservation of domestic breeds in danger of extinction, as well as animal genetic resources in general are proposed. Annexes on comparisons of the breed situation in Corsica and Sardinia in cattle, sheep, goats, pigs an...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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United Nations Environment Programme
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[Pilot study on conservation of animal genetic resources]
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Pilot study on conservation of animal genetic resources
Part 1 of this publication presents scientific concepts of land health surveillance and the methods and analytical approaches that are used to make surveillance operational. Part 2 presents a regional application of land health surveillance with a synoptic screening study of land degradation in t...
United Nations Environment Programme
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[Land Health Surveillance: An Evidence-Based Approach to Land Ecosystem Management. Illustrated with a Case Study in the West Africa Sahel]
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Land Health Surveillance: An Evidence-Based Approach to Land Ecosystem Management. Illustrated with a Case Study in the West Africa Sahel
The atlas provides a pictorial overview of the application of land degradation surveillance a science-based approach to land health monitoring and assessment. Systematic sampling and observation of ground conditions are combined with new technology for rapid soil characterization and with fine to...
United Nations Environment Programme
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[Sahel Atlas of Changing Landscapes: Tracing trends and variations in vegetation cover and soil condition]
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Sahel Atlas of Changing Landscapes: Tracing trends and variations in vegetation cover and soil condition
The report presents the latest estimates of the emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information about:
- current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national pledge implementation
- the im...
The Indian sub-continent is extremely rich in its plant wealth. It is one among the twelve mega diversity centers in the world, and is also one of the eight centers of origin of cultivated plants and areas of diversity of their wild relatives as classified by Vavilov. In order to protect the dive...
Dinesh, M.R.
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Rajan, S.
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Singh, I.P.
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Singh, A.
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Singh, S.K.
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Vasudeva, R.
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Vinoth, S.
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Global Environment Facility
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United Nations Environment Programme
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Bioversity International
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Indian Council of Agricultural Research
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[National fruit catalogue of tropical fruit tree diversity (Mangifera, Citrus and Garcinia)]
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National fruit catalogue of tropical fruit tree diversity (Mangifera, Citrus and Garcinia)
Review of UNEP program activities in support of the Convention on Biological Diversity and of the implementation of the decisions of the First Conference of the Parties to the Convention. The paper also previews topics to be discussed at the Second Conference of the Parties to the Convention sche...
United Nations Environment Programme
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[Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity]
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Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity
United Nations Environment Programme
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Center for International Forestry Research
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[Guiding principles for delivering coastal wetland carbon projects]
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Guiding principles for delivering coastal wetland carbon projects