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The linkages between biodiversity and climate change mitigation :A review of the recent scientific literature
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2008)
This report reviews the literature published since the IPCC 4AR on the linkages between biodiversity and climate mitigation policies in order to highlight developments in our understanding of the role of biodiversity in ...
Ecologically Sensitive Sites in Africa. Volume 3: South-Central Africa and Indian Ocean
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) , World Bank, 1993)
This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in Africa to which they could refer while implementing ...
2003 United Nations List of Protected Areas
(2004)
The 2003 United Nations List of Protected Areas presents data on 102,102 protected areas covering 18.8 million km2. Within this total figure, there are 69,066 protected areas with lUCN Management Categories. In addition, ...
Checklist of herpetofauna listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1999)
The intention of this work is to provide a combined list of amphibian and reptile species included in the Appendices to CITES, the Annexes of the European Community (EC) Regulation 338/97, and to list their IUCN (World ...
State of the world's protected areas at the end of the twentieth century
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1997)
Protected areas are widely held to be among the most effective means of conserving biological diversity in situ (McNeely and Miller, 1984
European plants in peril: a review of threatened plants in the European Community (1989)
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1989)
This booklet draws attention to the problems of habitat loss or degradation within the territory of the European Community and presents a selection of those plant species which are, as a consequence, under threat. It ...
Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2006)
Forests play a key role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing and storing carbon in their biomass and soils. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) discussions on reducing emissions from deforestation and ...
Ecologically Sensitive Sites in Africa. Volume 5: Sahel
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) , World Bank, 1993)
This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in Africa to which they could refer while implementing ...
Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing: A Manual for Assessment Practitioners
(Island Press, 2010)
Commissioned by the United Nations Secretary General in 2000, and completed in 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), based on the findings of 34 'sub-global' assessments carried out in a diverse set of ecosystems ...
Ecologically Sensitive Sites in Africa. Volume 1: Occidental and Central Africa
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) , World Bank, 1993)
This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in Africa to which they could refer while implementing ...