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Ecosystem-based Adaptation and an Integrated Resilient Rice Model in Madagascar - UNEP Lessons in Climate Change Adaptation
(2022-07)In Madagascar, deforestation for agricultural land is leading to widespread erosion from run-off, resulting in the loss of topsoil, depletion of soil nutrients, and landslides. The project therefore also applied an ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation and Forestry - Briefing Note 10
(2022-07)Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) is the utilization of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of a strategy to aid people in adapting to the adverse effects of climate change. Forests are important ecosystems for ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation for Rural Resilience in Tanzania: A Handbook
(2021)This publication has been prepared for the Vice President’s Office of Tanzania as part of work on EbA Trainings of Trainers under the project “Ecosystem-based Adaptation for Rural Resilience in Tanzania”. The aim of the ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation for Rural Resilience in Tanzania: Vulnerability and Impact Assessment - Climate Projections Report
(2020-01)This climate assessment uses temperature, rainfall, and potential evapotranspiration as the dominant controlling factors for future planning. Temperature projections are very robust. Rainfall and ET0 are less accurate ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation Guidelines for Climate-Resilient Restoration of Savannah, Wetland and Forest Ecosystems of Rwanda
(2019)The objective of this document is to describe developed Ecosystem-based Adaption guidelines and restoration plans for climate resilient restoration of savannahs, wetland and forest ecosystems, with reference to 8 case ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Agriculture - Briefing Note 11
(2022-07)Conventional agriculture has been the major driving force of increased yields over the past decades and still makes up most agricultural production practices. However, this food production system and a significant amount ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Albania 2016-2020
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2020)Albania is situated in southeastern Europe with a population of 2.85 million. The country has one of the largest and richest wetland systems – mainly in the form of coastal lagoons – in the Mediterranean region. This project ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Marine and Coastal Areas - TNC
Presentataion at the 12th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Nepal, Mauritania & Seychelles (EbA South) 2013-2020 - Factsheet
(2021)The EbA South project has been identified as a flagship initiative for South-South cooperation on climate change. A key part of the project was to share lessons in Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) across 3 different ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Rural Resilience in Tanzania: A Handbook
(2020)The aim of this publication is to enhance capacities among policymakers and practitioners on EbA and to support institutions in successfully taking action on promoting EbA. This course therefore provides an introduction ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A Handbook for EbA in Mountain, Dryland and Coastal Ecosystems
(2018)The purpose of this handbook is to provide a tool to guide the planning and implementation of ecosystem based adaptation (EbA) in developing countries to help address the growing impacts of climate change. The handbook ... -
Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Selected Case Studies from Africa
(2019)Efforts to protect the environment can have a negative impact on people’s livelihoods if it does not increase livelihood options from the ecosystem. So how do we maintain a healthy environment as climate changes and at ... -
The Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction: Case Study and Exercise Source Book
(Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction and Center for Natural Resources and Development, 2014-05)This ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption (Eco-DRR/CCA) case study booklet is designed as a guided learning resource and supports a problem-based learning approach. The booklet enables masters ... -
Ecosystem-based Management of Fisheries. UNEP Regional Seas Report and Studies No. 175
(UNEP, 2001)To effectively manage our fisheries, we need to manage fish in the context of the environment in which they exist, that is an ecosystem. This means understanding the complex ecological and socioeconomic environments in ... -
Ecosystem-based Management of Fisheries: Opportunities and Challenges for Coordination between Marine Regional Fishery Bodies and Regional Seas Conventions - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 175
(2001)The purpose of this publication is to present considerations which can serve as the basis for potential cooperation between RFBs and RSCs. It describes the concept of ecosystem-based fisheries management, the relevant ... -
ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT The Mediterranean experience
Presentation at the 9th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans -
Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Deep Waters and High Seas
This report summarise facts and options for the conservation and sustainable use of marine habitats and life forms in deep waters and the open ocean, with a special focus on areas beyond national jurisdiction. -
Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Deep Waters and High Seas
(2006)The conservation and sustainable use of the vulnerable ecosystems and biodiversity in deep waters and high seas are among the most critical oceans issues and environmental challenges today. Immediate impacts and threats, ... -
Ecosystems and Human Well-being : Our Human Planet - Summary for Decision-makers
(2005)The assessment focuses on the linkages between ecosystems and human well-being and, in particular, on "ecosystem services." An ecosystem is a dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities and the nonliving ... -
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Desertification Synthesis
(Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board, 2005)This report integrates findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessments related to current state and future trends of desertification and its impacts on ecosystems and human well-being and is organized around a set of key ...