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Designing protected areas

  • Design of a knowledge management system for tropical forests management and ecosystem services

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    Date of submission
    Phase
    Completed
    Countries
    Costa Rica
    Objective
    Adaptation
    Mitigation
    Sectors
    Agriculture and forestry
    Cross-sectoral enabler
    Communication and awareness
    Governance and planning
    Approach
    Disaster risk reduction
    Ecosystems and biodiversity

    Context

    In Costa Rica, the role of forests in climate change adaptation and mitigation is widely acknowledged and various political and financial mechanisms have been developed to support ecosystems in facilitating adaptation processes and act as carbon sinks that directly contribute to mitigation. However, there is a lack of instruments to facilitate access to information for improving the decision-making process for climate change adaptation and mitigation when it comes to the management of forests and associated ecosystem services.

  • Eficiencia Energética y Ambiental Efficacitas Consultora Cía. Ltda.

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    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Ecuador
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Energy efficiency
    Human health
    Industry
    Waste management

    Efficacitas Consulting was founded in 1994 with the mission to work for sustainable resource management throughout Latin America, providing consulting services in energy, environment and sustainable development.

  • International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

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    Knowledge partner
    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Switzerland
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Knowledge Partner
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture and forestry
    Coastal zones
    Forestry
    Infrastructure and Urban planning

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources IUCN's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.&nbs

  • Microsoft Word - System Plan Part1 Intro_Background - System Plan Part1 Intro_Background.pdf

    Publication date
    Objective
    Adaptation
    Approach
    Disaster risk reduction

    Recognizing the significance of their natural and cultural diversity and the vulnerability of their ecological, social and economic values from world events and natural disasters, Grenada, made a committment in 2008 to conservation.

    As with most small-island developing states, and many continental countries considered developed, Grenada has made modest gains in protecting and managing its nationally significant natural and cultural resources.

    The plan for protected areas in Grenada is composed of two parts.

  • Development and disaster risk management of historic urban areas

    Publication date
    Objective
    Adaptation
    Sectors
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Approach
    Disaster risk reduction

    The report was written at the 2015 UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Disaster Risk Management, International Training Course at Ritsumeikan University Kyoto during the sessions on 16th September 2015, led by Professor Peter Head, Chief Executive of The Ecological Sequestration Trust.

    It focuses on ecology and sustainability of historic urban areas, and disaster mitigation and integrated planning of historic cities.

  • Institut de recherche pour le développement

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    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    France
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Renewable energy
    Forestry
    Marine and Fisheries
    Water

    IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Research Institute for Development) - is a research organization based in France that is working with its partners in the South to address international development issues.

  • R.J. Burnside International Limited

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    Knowledge partner
    Country of registration
    Canada
    Relation to CTCN
    Network Member
    Sector(s) of expertise
    Renewable energy
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Water
    Waste management
    Energy efficiency

    R.J. Burnside International Limited (Burnside) has provided engineering consulting services in Canada since 1970.

  • Mainstreaming community-based conservation in a transboundary mountain landscape: lessons from Kangchenjunga

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    Objective
    Mitigation
    Approach
    Disaster risk reduction
    Community based

    This paper draws recommendations for transboundary and participatory biodiversity conservation from the Kangchenjunga Conservation Landscape Initiative. This 'biodiversity hotspot' - shared by Bhutan, India and Nepal - is one of seven transboundary landscapes indentified by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) for regional cooperation development.

  • Managing climate extremes and disasters for ecosystems: lessons from the IPCC SREX report

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    Objective
    Adaptation
    Approach
    Disaster risk reduction
    Community based

    According to this paper, good ecosystems management is critical for managing climate extremes and disasters. It plays three positive roles: delivery of ecosystem-based adaptation; delivery of co-benefits for livelihoods and biodiversity conservation; and support for climate mitigation. Healthy ecosystems, whether natural or modified, have a critical role to play through adaptation by reducing the risk of impacts from climate extremes and disasters on human society. Investment in sustainable ecosystem management has, thus, the potential to provide improved livelihoods and wellbeing.