Environment and ecosystems

Sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystems to reduce disaster risk and environmental degradation as a risk driver.

Latest Environment and ecosystems additions in the Knowledge Base

This Report presents the findings of the first national assessment of the risks of climate change for the whole of Australia’s coastal zone. It focuses on risks to settlements and infrastructure, ecosystems and industries in the coastal zone.

Its

Joint departmental discussion paper, issue 1:

The purpose of this report is to identify and summarize potential climate change impacts on agriculture in regions served by the World Bank, examine the causes of vulnerability, provide information on where

Photo of crops growing on Rarotonga, Cook Islands by Flickr user, Luthor522, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic
Climate change is projected to impact heavily on agriculture the FAO has warned. The agency urged governments and donors to immediately start implementing robust and action-oriented climate change adaptation plans for all Pacific islands...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
Floods 2009 Namibia Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)
This Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) assesses damage and losses incurred as a result of 2009 floods, and provides an assessment of recovery and reconstruction options that could provide resilience to future events such as droughts and floods.

This briefing explains the origins and meaning of sustainable forest management (SFM) and the risk associated with including it – and thus industrial logging – within the scope of REDD (United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from

This study was commissioned to review the impact of climate change on Pakistan’s rural disaster-prone communities in Badin (Sindh), Rajanpur (Punjab), and Khuzdar (Balochistan).

The study's aim was to review community perceptions of the impact of climate

This report documents the cost-effectiveness of investing in natural resource management and ecosystem restoration as a tool for adaptation to climate change. Evidence derived from many examples around the world emphasize the need to integrate this option

Policy-makers who factor the planet's multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services into their national and international investment strategies are likely to see far higher rates of return and stronger economic growth in the 21st century, says new report...
United Nations Environment Programme

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