Capacity-building for Biodiversity in Central and Eastern Europe
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Published: 2004
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: International Workshop Capacity Building for Biodiversity in Central and Eastern Europe (2003, Insel Vilm)
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Published: 2004
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michele Walters
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-11-25
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 3319272888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. This book intends to provide practical guidance to broadly-defined biodiversity observation networks at all scales, but predominantly the national scale and higher. This is a practical how-to book with substantial policy relevance. It will mostly be used by technical specialists with a responsibility for biodiversity monitoring to establish and refine their systems. It is written at a technical level, but one that is not discipline-bound: it should be intelligible to anyone in the broad field with a tertiary education.
Author: Sven Rannow
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-09-27
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ISBN-13: 9789402403022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with an overview of data and concepts developed in the EU-project HABIT-CHANGE, this book addresses the need for sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. There is an urgent need to build capacity in protected areas to monitor, assess, manage and report the effects of climate change and their interaction with other pressures. The contributors identify barriers to the adaptation of conservation management, such as the mismatch between planning reality and the decision context at site level. Short and vivid descriptions of case studies, drawn from investigation areas all over Central and Eastern Europe, illustrate both the local impacts of climate change and their consequences for future management. These focus on ecosystems most vulnerable to changes in climatic conditions, including alpine areas, wetlands, forests, lowland grasslands and coastal areas. The case studies demonstrate the application of adaptation strategies in protected areas like National Parks, Biosphere Reserves and Natural Parks, and reflect the potential benefits as well as existing obstacles. A general section provides the necessary background information on climate trends and their effects on abiotic and biotic components. Often, the parties to policy change and conservation management, including managers, land users and stakeholders, lack both expertise and incentives to undertake adaptation activities. The authors recognise that achieving the needed changes in behavior – habit – is as much a social learning process as a matter of science-based procedure. They describe the implementation of modeling, impact assessment and monitoring of climate conditions, and show how the results can support efforts to increase stakeholder involvement in local adaptation strategies. The book concludes by pointing out the need for more work to communicate the cross-sectoral nature of biodiversity protection, the value of well-informed planning in the long-term process of adaptation, the definition of acceptable change, and the motivational value of exchanging experience and examples of good practice.
Author: Helmut Weidner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 3662047942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the second collection of systematic case studies describing national environmental policies in 17 countries in terms of capacity building (see Appen dix). The OECD defines environmental capacity building as "a society's ability to identify and solve environmental problems. " While various institutions, including UNEP, FAO, World Bank and OECD, have hitherto used the terms environmental capacity and capacity building almost exclusively with reference to developing countries, we have extended the concepts to industrialized countries, as well. The first collection, edited by Martin Janicke, Helge Joergens (both Free University Berlin) and Helmut Weidner (Social Science Research Center Berlin), was pub lished in 1997 under the title "National Environmental Policies - A Comparative Study of Capacity-Building" (Berlin, etc. : Springer Verlag). It included 13 studies of countries. As in the first volume, chapter I presents the conceptual framework underlying the national case studies. It is a slightly shorter version of the corresponding chap ter in volume I. The design of all case studies in the two volumes is largely con gruent with this conceptual framework. Although the various sections of the stud ies do not always have identical titles and subtitles, the central elements of the capacity-building approach have been applied in all cases.
Author: Robert Aps
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2004-07-01
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 2831708478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: United Nations Environment Programme
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report details the broad scope of United Nations Environment Programme activities with regards to capacity building in support of the goals of sound environmental management and sustainable development. Aspects considered include: legal and institutional development; sustainable management of natural resources; integrating economic development and environmental protection; environmental assessment, monitoring and reporting; promoting public awareness and participation in environmental management.