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Publications and Resources
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Managing wetlands in arid regions : lessons learned
Gestion des zones humides en milieux arides : leçons d'expérience |
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Lamizana-Diallo, B., El Hadji M., Thiaw, I. ( eds)
2006
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| At the close of a 15-year regional programme to build institutional capacity for wetland resources management in West Africa, it was deemed essential to extract and review the lessons learned through this experience. This publication stems from the findings of a study carried out to analyse the experience as a whole and shed light on the successes, shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses of the programme as implemented. The ultimate goal is to organize the knowledge acquired through practice in such as way as to provide a practical methodology and confirmed approach to all those who wish to understand the issues involved in wetland conservation and development and to actively seek solutions. |
| IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa |
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| Land Degradation and the GEF - A guide to developing project proposals and accessing project funding from the Global Environmental Facility for sustainable land management |
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Gustafson, R.C.
2005
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| You have a project on land degradation in the pipeline and need funding for it? This guide aims to provide step-by-step directions for accessing GEF funds for projects preventing and controlling land degradation. It is split into three sections. Section one gives the reader general information about the GEF, how it operates and its partners. Section two provides specific information about GEF's programme to promote Sustainable Land Management projects and a step-by-step guide for detailing how to apply for some of this funding. The third section is an appendix with helful materials. |
| UNEP-GEF, IUCN and partners |
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| Enhancing social sustainability in activities to combat desertification : a manual for reflection |
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IUCN
2004
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| In West Africa, desertification threatens the living conditions of over 250 million people. The results of projects to combat desertification undertaken over the last 40 years or so have been mixed. One reason for this is probably that technical or technological approaches have taken precedence over the sociological approach. This manual is intended to bring the reader back to the social dimensions of the fight against desertification, focusing on sustainable management of natural resources in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid environments. |
| IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa |
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| Reducing West Africa's vulnerability to climate impacts on water resources, wetlands and desertification : elements for regional strategy for preparedness and adaptation |
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Niasse, M.; Afouda, A. ; Amani, A.; eds.
2004
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| West African is among the most vulnerable regions to climate change worldwide. The often disastrous impact variability and extreme events over the past thirty years is a striking illustration and a harbinger of this vulnerability. It is therefore urgent that decision-makers and the general public in West Africa be fully sensitized on the climatic challenges facing the region and actions to be taken, to enhance the region’s level of preparedness in order to cope with predictable impacts of climate variability and change and the associated extreme events. |
| IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa |
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| De aciertos y desiertos : equidad de género en ecosistemas de tierra seca |
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Blanco Lobo, M. ; Velásquez Gutiérrez, M.
2003
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| El documento contiene recomendaciones para la gestión ambiental con enfoque de género en ecosistemas de tierra seca. Tiene una propuesta metodológica para capacitar y sensibilizar al personal técnico de las organizaciones que desarrollan iniciativas en este tipo de ecosistema. |
| IUCN, Regional Office for Meso-America |
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| Extractive industries in arid and semi-arid zones : environmental planning and management |
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Gratzfeld, Joachim, ed.
2003
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| This publication aims to contribute to planning and management approaches that minimize land degradation and desertification in arid and semi-arid zones as a result of extractive industries operations. Both operational and policy guidance are included to help those government departments responsible for the licensing, planning and monitoring of extractive industries activities to take account of environment and development issues in their decision-making. |
| IUCN CEM |
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| Desertification and ecological problems of pasture stockbreeding in the steppe regions of southern Russia |
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| Environment for sustainable development in Africa : report of the Experts meeting preparatory to the World Summit for Sustainable Development |
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IUCN
2002
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| In preparation for WSSD, IUCN’s international Task Force invited prominent experts from African civil society to meet together in Dakar. This publication in both English and French is the result of that meeting. Objectives of the meeting were to enable the representatives of African civil society to adopt a common position on issues relating to poverty reduction, environment and sustainable development in Africa, and to develop a plan of action on sustainable development in Africa to be circulated at the Johannesburg Summit. |
| IUCN; IUCN, Regional Office for Western Africa |
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| Partridges, quails, francolins, snowcocks, guineafowl, and turkeys : status survey and conservation action plan 2000-2004 |
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Fuller, R. A., ed. ; Carroll, J. P., ed. ; McGowan, P. J.K.;, eds.
2000
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| The most important agro-ecological problem confronting the steppe regions of Southern Russia is desertification, in large part due to pasture degradation. This publication provides an overview of the status of the various regions in Russia, and studies the connection between desertification and the state and history of agriculture and stockbreeding in each region. It relates the activities of the regional authorities and highlights the necessity of special mechanisms for solving the complex ecological-economic-social problems of the area. |
| IUCN Species Survival Commission in collaboration with partners |
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