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National Environmental Action Plan 2002
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Book Synopsis National Environmental Action Plan, 2002 by :
Download or read book National Environmental Action Plan, 2002 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biodiversity of Angola by : Brian J. Huntley
Download or read book Biodiversity of Angola written by Brian J. Huntley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access multi-authored book presents a 'state of the science' synthesis of knowledge on the biodiversity of Angola, based on sources in peer-reviewed journals, in books and where appropriate, unpublished official reports. The book identifies Angola as one of the most biologically diverse countries in Africa, but notes that its fauna, flora, habitats and the processes that drive the dynamics of its ecosystems are still very poorly researched and documented. This 'state of the science' synthesis is for the use of all students of Angola's biodiversity, and for those responsible for the planning, development and sustainable management of the country's living resources. The volume brings together the results of expeditions and research undertaken in Angola since the late eighteenth century, with emphasis on work conducted in the four decades since Angola's independence in 1975. The individual chapters have been written by leaders in their fields, and reviewed by peers familiar with the region.
Book Synopsis Making Profits, Protecting Our Planet by :
Download or read book Making Profits, Protecting Our Planet written by and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2005 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book (i) identifies a range of market and social forces driving the private sector toward more responsible environmental stewardship; (ii) shows the need for governments, the private sector, and communities to adjust their relations; (iii) and argues for enhanced enforcement of environmental regulations by governments even as they reach out to the private sector for stronger collaboration in environmental protection.
Book Synopsis Integrating Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use by : Graham Bennett
Download or read book Integrating Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use written by Graham Bennett and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IUCN's 5th World Parks Congress (2003) concluded that parks should not exist as unique islands, but need to be planned and managed as an integral part of the broader landscape. Ecological networks provide an operational model for conserving biodiversity that is based on ecological principles and allow a degree of human use of the landscape. This publication illustrates the development of several ecological networks around the world, demonstrating their benefits both for conservation and sustainable development.
Book Synopsis Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development by : OECD
Download or read book Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on experiences and insights from 16 megadiverse countries, this report examines how biodiversity is being mainstreamed in four key areas.
Book Synopsis Sustainability and the U.S. EPA by : National Research Council
Download or read book Sustainability and the U.S. EPA written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. The environment provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Recognizing the importance of sustainability to its work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to create programs and applications in a variety of areas to better incorporate sustainability into decision-making at the agency. To further strengthen the scientific basis for sustainability as it applies to human health and environmental protection, the EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to provide a framework for incorporating sustainability into the EPA's principles and decision-making. This framework, Sustainability and the U.S. EPA, provides recommendations for a sustainability approach that both incorporates and goes beyond an approach based on assessing and managing the risks posed by pollutants that has largely shaped environmental policy since the 1980s. Although risk-based methods have led to many successes and remain important tools, the report concludes that they are not adequate to address many of the complex problems that put current and future generations at risk, such as depletion of natural resources, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Moreover, sophisticated tools are increasingly available to address cross-cutting, complex, and challenging issues that go beyond risk management. The report recommends that EPA formally adopt as its sustainability paradigm the widely used "three pillars" approach, which means considering the environmental, social, and economic impacts of an action or decision. Health should be expressly included in the "social" pillar. EPA should also articulate its vision for sustainability and develop a set of sustainability principles that would underlie all agency policies and programs.
Book Synopsis Sustainable Development Strategies by : Barry Dalal-Clayton
Download or read book Sustainable Development Strategies written by Barry Dalal-Clayton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cornerstone resource for a wide range of organizations and individuals concerned with sustainable development at national or local levels, as well as for international organizations concerned with supporting such development. Whilst the focus is on integrated strategies for sustainable development, the approaches and methods covered are equally relevant to poverty reduction, environmental and sectoral strategies, programme development and review. Agenda 21 called for all countries to develop sustainable development strategies. For such strategies to be effective there needs to be a real commitment. In every country, government at all levels, the private sector, and civil society, must work together in a true partnership, in transparent ways which enable genuine stakeholder participation. The necessary mechanisms and processes need to be coordinated to enable continuous learning and improvement. This resource book provides flexible, non-prescriptive guidance on how to develop, assess and implement national sustainable development strategies. It sets out principles and ideas on process and methods, and suggests how these can be used. It is based on an analysis of past and current practice, drawing directly from experience in both developed and developing countries. Following a discussion of the nature and challenges of sustainable development and the need for strategic responses to them, the heart of the book covers the main tasks in strategy processes. Individual chapters offer a rich range of guidance, ideas and case studies.
Book Synopsis National Environmental Accounting by : Joy Hecht
Download or read book National Environmental Accounting written by Joy Hecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents national environmental, or 'green' accounting as it has developed in Europe and other parts of the world. It introduces the most recent methods developed through the United Nations Statistical Department and other international organizations, but bridges the gap between the superficial treatment of environmental accounting in economics textbooks and environmental literature, on the one hand, and the highly technical manuals of international organizations, on the other. Joy Hecht begins with a history and introduction to national income accounting. The first part of her book explains how the environmental accounts build on the structure of the 1993 System of National Accounts. She then shows the UN approach to accounting applied to pollution, recycling, and the management of natural resources such as forests, minerals, and fisheries. The third section discusses how the accounts approach green GDP and other macroeconomic indicators. The book concludes by going beyond the UN structures to discuss other adjusted macroeconomic measures and how accounting data can be used to build them. National Environmental Accounting is a non-technical introduction to an increasingly important field. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how environmental accounts can help society move towards greater sustainability.
Download or read book Realising REDD+ written by Arild Angelsen and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REDD+ must be transformational. REDD+ requires broad institutional and governance reforms, such as tenure, decentralisation, and corruption control. These reforms will enable departures from business as usual, and involve communities and forest users in making and implementing policies that a ect them. Policies must go beyond forestry. REDD+ strategies must include policies outside the forestry sector narrowly de ned, such as agriculture and energy, and better coordinate across sectors to deal with non-forest drivers of deforestation and degradation. Performance-based payments are key, yet limited. Payments based on performance directly incentivise and compensate forest owners and users. But schemes such as payments for environmental services (PES) depend on conditions, such as secure tenure, solid carbon data and transparent governance, that are often lacking and take time to change. This constraint reinforces the need for broad institutional and policy reforms. We must learn from the past. Many approaches to REDD+ now being considered are similar to previous e orts to conserve and better manage forests, often with limited success. Taking on board lessons learned from past experience will improve the prospects of REDD+ e ectiveness. National circumstances and uncertainty must be factored in. Di erent country contexts will create a variety of REDD+ models with di erent institutional and policy mixes. Uncertainties about the shape of the future global REDD+ system, national readiness and political consensus require exibility and a phased approach to REDD+ implementation.
Book Synopsis The National Action Plan to Conserve Coral Reefs by : United States Coral Reef Task Force
Download or read book The National Action Plan to Conserve Coral Reefs written by United States Coral Reef Task Force and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Decision Making for the Environment by : National Research Council
Download or read book Decision Making for the Environment written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help define and eventually manage such problems more effectively. Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities is the result of a 2-year effort by 12 social and behavioral scientists, scholars, and practitioners. The report sets research priorities for the social and behavioral sciences as they relate to several different kinds of environmental problems.
Book Synopsis National Biodiversity Planning by : Kenton Miller
Download or read book National Biodiversity Planning written by Kenton Miller and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nkhata Bay Urban Environmental Action Plan, 2002-2007 by :
Download or read book Nkhata Bay Urban Environmental Action Plan, 2002-2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Philippine Biodiversity Conservation Priorities by :
Download or read book The Philippine Biodiversity Conservation Priorities written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains an overview of the state of biodiversity in the Philippines as well as materials used during the workshop.
Book Synopsis Quantification and qualification of the environmental impacts of milk processing in The Republic of Armenia using Life Cycle Assessment methodology with particular focus on product- and process-related quality attributes by : Sonika Aminforoughi
Download or read book Quantification and qualification of the environmental impacts of milk processing in The Republic of Armenia using Life Cycle Assessment methodology with particular focus on product- and process-related quality attributes written by Sonika Aminforoughi and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA) is a young, but, increasingly a well-known technique, to assess the environmental impacts associated with products. In this dissertation thesis, a product-/process-related ELCA for a typical Armenian dairy factory has been performed. Here, the environmental impacts associated with the manufacturing processes of selected dairy products have been investigated. The production of raw milk at the supplier dairy farm and the disposal of the solid waste and waste water incurred during production and processing have been considered as well. Due to the multi-functional nature of dairy factories, an allocation procedure according to the calorific value of each product under assessment has been conducted. In order to execute the ELCA, the software SimaPro has been used. As the methodology for Life Cycle Impact Assessment, the ReCiPe Midpoint method has been applied. Inventory, characterization, normalization, contribution, and sensitivity analyses have been carried out accordingly. The results of these analyses have determined the significant impact categories by each analyzed product and the products with the greatest environmental impacts. Furthermore, the “hotspots” of the processes have been determined. Ökologische Lebenszyklusanalyse (Ökobilanz) ist eine junge, jedoch inzwischen eine gut bekannte Methode zur Untersuchung der Umweltauswirkungen der Produkte. Im Rahmen dieser Dissertation wurde eine produkt-/prozessbezogene Lebenszyklusanalyse für eine typische armenische Molkerei durchgeführt. Hierbei wurden die Umweltauswirkungen der Herstellungsprozesse ausgewählter Molkereiprodukte untersucht. Die Rohmilchproduktion in der Lieferfarm und die Entsorgung der anfallenden Produktionsabfälle und –abwässer wurden gleichfalls betrachtet. Wegen der multifunktionalen Natur der Molkereien wurde ein Allokationsverfahren basierend auf dem Brennwert jedes untersuchten Produktes durchgeführt. Um die ökologische Lebenszyklusanalyse durchzuführen, wurde die Software SimaPro verwendet. Die Methode ReCiPe Midpoint wurde als Methode der Wirkungsabschätzung verwendet. Dementsprechend wurden Inventory-, Wirkungsabschätzungs-, Normalisierungs-, Beitrags- und Sensitivitätsanalysen durchgeführt. Ergebnisse dieser Analysen haben die signifikanten Umweltkategorien bei jedem untersuchten Produkt und die Produkte mit den höchsten Umweltauswirkungen identifiziert. Darüber hinaus wurden die „Hotspots“ der Prozesse festgestellt.
Book Synopsis Policies for a Better Environment Progress in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia by : OECD
Download or read book Policies for a Better Environment Progress in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes progress being made - and barriers to progress - on environmental policies and programmes in the countries of Eastern Europe, Causasus and Central Asia.