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Biodiversity in Small Island States

Author : Commonwealth Science Council
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN 13 : 9780850924688
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Biodiversity in Small Island States written by Commonwealth Science Council and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1996 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small island developing states (SIDS) are renowned for the rich biodiversity of their marine and terrestrial ecosystems. However, it is also well known that because of their isolation, fragility, and extreme vulnerability to environmental deterioration, their biodiversity is among the most threatened in the world. Identifying and monitoring all the components of biological diversity is a formidable task. This publication therefore proposes to identify those components of biodiversity that are a resource for humanity, primarily focusing upon the biological resources used by people, whether they are floral and faunal species and their genetic variations, or whole ecosystems. It outlines systems for rapid assessment to monitor the status of crucial resources that are in current use or have potential for future use so that those under threat of depletion can be quickly identified. This will in turn facilitate taking informed policy decisions for biodiversity conservation strategies, generate public awareness of important biodiversity issues and build regional and local scientific capacity in this field.

Small Island States and Sustainable Development

Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843690446
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Small Island States and Sustainable Development written by International Institute for Environment & Development and published by IIED. This book was released on 1995 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Small Island Developing States

Author : Stefano Moncada
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030827747
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Small Island Developing States written by Stefano Moncada and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people’s long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change. The contributions, written by well-established scholars, as well as emerging authors and practitioners, in the field, include conceptual papers, coherent methodological approaches, and case studies from the communities based in the Caribbean Sea and the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans. In their introduction, the editors contextualise the book within the current literature. They emphasise the importance of stronger links between climate change science and policy in SIDS, both to increase effectiveness of policy and also boost scholarly enquiry in the context of whose communities are often excluded by mainstream research. This book is timely and appropriate, given the recent commission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of a Special Report that aims at addressing vulnerabilities, “especially in islands and coastal areas, as well as the adaptation and policy development opportunities” following the Paris Agreement. Coupled with this, there is also the need to support the policy community with further scientific evidence on climate change–related issues in SIDS, accompanying the first years of implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Climate Change and Small Island States

Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113654285X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Small Island States written by John Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Island Developing States are often depicted as being among the most vulnerable of all places to the effects of climate change, and they are a cause celebre of many involved in climate science, politics and the media. Yet while small island developing states are much talked about, the production of both scientific knowledge and policies to protect the rights of these nations and their people has been remarkably slow. This book is the first to apply a critical approach to climate change science and policy processes in the South Pacific region. It shows how groups within politically and scientifically powerful countries appropriate the issue of island vulnerability in ways that do not do justice to the lives of island people. It argues that the ways in which islands and their inhabitants are represented in climate science and politics seldom leads to meaningful responses to assist them to adapt to climate change. Throughout, the authors focus on the hitherto largely ignored social impacts of climate change, and demonstrate that adaptation and mitigation policies cannot be effective without understanding the social systems and values of island societies.

Climate Change and Small Island States

Author : Jon Barnett
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849774897
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Small Island States written by Jon Barnett and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small Island Developing States are often depicted as being among the most vulnerable of all places to the effects of climate change, and they are a cause c?l?bre of many involved in climate science, politics and the media. Yet while small island developing states are much talked about, the production of both scientific knowledge and policies to protect the rights of these nations and their people has been remarkably slow.This book is the first to apply a critical approach to climate change science and policy processes in the South Pacific region. It shows how groups within politically and scientifically powerful countries appropriate the issue of island vulnerability in ways that do not do justice to the lives of island people. It argues that the ways in which islands and their inhabitants are represented in climate science and politics seldom leads to meaningful responses to assist them to adapt to climate change. Throughout, the authors focus on the hitherto largely ignored social impacts of climate change, and demonstrate that adaptation and mitigation policies cannot be effective without understanding the social systems and values of island societies.

Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans

Author : Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178643072X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans written by Paulo A.L.D. Nunes and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trans-disciplinary thematic areas of oceans management and policy require stocktaking of the state of knowledge on ecosystem services being derived from coastal and marine areas. Recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially Goals 14 and 15 explicitly focus on this. This Handbook brings together a carefully chosen set of world-class contributions from ecology, economics, and other development science and attempts to provide policy relevant scientific information on ecosystem services from marine and coastal ecosystems, nuances of economic valuation, relevant legal and sociological response policies for effective management of marine areas for enhanced human well being. The contributors focus on the possible nexus of science-society and science-policy with the objective of informing on decision makers of the governmental agencies, business and industry and civil society in general with respect to sustainable management of Oceans.

Emerging Issues for Small Island Developing States

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 9213619235
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Emerging Issues for Small Island Developing States written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2012 UNEP Foresight Process on Emerging Global Environmental Issues primarily identified emerging environmental issues and possible solutions on a global scale and perspective. In 2013, UNEP carried out a similar exercise to identify priority emerging environmental issues that are of concern to the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The social and economic emerging issues were also identified using the same set of criteria. At the core of the process was a SIDS Foresight Panel consisting of 11 SIDS experts (for the UNEP Panel) and 12 experts (for the UN DESA Panel) from the three SIDS regions, representing the global SIDS community and a wide range of disciplines. The process was designed to open the discussion on emerging environmental issues to a broad range of views both from the Foresight Panel and a wider community of relevant experts from across the globe. Through the Foresight Process, separate lists of 20 environmental and 15 socioeconomic emerging issues were identified and discussed in this report.

Handbook of Governance in Small States

Author : Lino Briguglio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429590121
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Governance in Small States written by Lino Briguglio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers a wide spectrum of governance issues relating to small states in a global context. While different definitions of governance are given in the chapters, most authors associate governance with the setting and implementation of policies aimed at managing a country or territory, and with the related institutional structures and interventions by political actors. Generally, good governance is associated with concepts such as policy effectiveness, accountability, transparency, control of corruption, encouragement of citizens’ voice and gender equality—factors which are, in turn, linked with democracy. What emerges from the book is that the societies of small states are being re-shaped by various forces outside their control, including the globalization process and climate change, rendering their governance ever more complex. These problems are not solely faced by small states, but small country size tends to lead to a higher degree of exposure to external factors. The chapters are grouped into four sections broadly covering political, environmental, social and economic governance. Governance is influenced by many, often intertwined, factors; the division of the book into four parts therefore does not detract from the fact that governance is multifaceted, and such division was based on the primary focus of each particular study and its main disciplinary background. The expert authors have, moreover, used a variety of approaches in the studies, the subject of small states being well suited to scholarly work from different disciplines using qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches to arrive at useful conclusions.

Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific

Author : Lalit Kumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030328783
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change and Impacts in the Pacific written by Lalit Kumar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume addresses the impacts of climate change on Pacific islands, and presents databases and indexes for assessing and adapting to island vulnerabilities. By analyzing susceptibility variables, developing comprehensive vulnerability indexes, and applying GIS techniques, the book's authors demonstrate the particular issues presented by climate change in the islands of the Pacific region, and how these issues may be managed to preserve and improve biodiversity and human livelihoods. The book first introduces the issues specific to island communities, such as high emissions impacts, and discusses the importance of the lithological traits of Pacific islands and how these physical factors relate to climate change impacts. From here, the book aims to analyze the various vulnerabilities of different island sectors, and to formulate a susceptibility index from these variables to be used by government and planning agencies for relief prioritization. Such variables include tropical cyclones, built infrastructures, proximity to coastal areas, agriculture, fisheries and marine resources, groundwater availability, biodiversity, and economic impacts on industries such as tourism. Through the categorization and indexing of these variables, human and physical adaptation measures are proposed, and support solutions are offered to aid the inhabitants of affected island countries. This book is intended for policy makers, academics, and climate change researchers, particularly those dealing with climate change impacts on small islands.

SDG14 - Life Below Water

Author : Umesh Chandra Pandey
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800717113
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book SDG14 - Life Below Water written by Umesh Chandra Pandey and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SDG14 - Life Below Water: Towards Sustainable Management of Our Oceans describes the dependence of human beings on shore and marine resources and highlights how oceanic life sustains the livelihoods of people living in coastal areas, affects global economy and plays a significant role for making earth habitable.

Agrobiodiversity and the Law

Author : Juliana Santilli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136580026
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Agrobiodiversity and the Law written by Juliana Santilli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide range of crop genetic resources is vital for future food security. Loss of agricultural biodiversity increases the risk of relying on a limited number of staple food crops. However, many laws, such as seed laws, plant varieties protection and access and benefit-sharing laws, have direct impacts on agrobiodiversity, and their effects have been severely underestimated by policy-makers. This is of concern not only to lawyers, but also to agronomists, biologists, and social scientists, all of whom need clear guidance as to the relevance of the law to their work. This book analyzes the impact of the legal system on agrobiodiversity (or agricultural biodiversity) – the diversity of agricultural species, varieties, and ecosystems. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it takes up the emerging concept of agrobiodiversity and its relationship with food security, nutrition, health, environmental sustainability, and climate change. It assesses the impacts on agrobiodiversity of key legal instruments, including seeds laws, the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, plant breeders’ rights, the Convention on Biological Diversity (regarding specifically its impact on agrobiodiversity), and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. It also reviews the options for the implementation of these instruments at the national level in several countries. It discusses the interfaces between the free software movement, the ‘commons’ movement, and seeds, as well as the legal instruments to protect cultural heritage and their application to safeguard agrobiodiversity-rich systems. Finally, it analyzes the role of protected areas and the possibility of using geographical indications to enhance the value of agrobiodiversity products and processes.

Biodiversity Valuation in Developing Countries

Author : Sonja S. Teelucksingh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Biodiversity Valuation in Developing Countries written by Sonja S. Teelucksingh and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environmental Change and African Societies

Author : Julia Tischler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004410848
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Change and African Societies written by Julia Tischler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.

Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

Author : Saleemul Huq
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843694174
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) written by Saleemul Huq and published by IIED. This book was released on 2003 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Threatened Island Nations

Author : Michael B. Gerrard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025761
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Threatened Island Nations written by Michael B. Gerrard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses legal issues of rising seas endangering the habitability and existence of island nations in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Emerging Issues for Small Island Developing States

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 9210575652
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Global Environmental Commons

Author : Eric Brousseau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199656207
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Global Environmental Commons written by Eric Brousseau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an overview of global environmental governance and the effectiveness of different governance mechanisms. Bringing together a broad range of perspectives, it addresses key challenges in contemporary global governance of environmental change.