Search the SPREP Catalogue

Advanced Search
Refine Search Results

Tags / Keywords

Publication Year

Available Online

Tags / Keywords

Publication Year

Available Online

7575 result(s) found.

Sort by

You searched for

  • Collection Island and Ocean Ecosystems
    X
clear
Guidelines: developing integrated financing strategies for Sustainable Land Management : an introduction for least developed countries and small islands developing states
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

Talafre Joana, Paquin Marc, Mayrand Karel

2008
Sustainable land management is recognized as a potential foundation of poverty reduction and sustainable development. In many cases, achieving sustainable land management or correcting unsustainable land use practices requires broad-based reforms, policy changes that reach beyond the scope of traditional environmental policy-making, as well as targeted interventions that yield immediate results. Despite the breadth and depth of the challenge faced by most developing countries, the resources invested in implementing policies and programmes for sustainable land management remain insufficient. In fact, the issue of resource mobilization for sustainable land management has been recognized as one of the major hurdles to achieving policy goals in most developing countries. Countries have been faced with sectoral policies, plans and programmes, including National Action Programmes (NAPs) under the UNCCD, which lacked grounding in broader country frameworks, and therefore went un-implemented.
Legal mechanisms for the establishment and management of terrestrial protected areas in Fiji
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

Clarke Pepe

,

Gillispie Charles Taylor

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) is the world's largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 84 States, 108 government agencies and more than 800 non-government organisations, together with 10,000 experts, in a unique worldwide partnership. IUCN has been active in the Oceania region for many years through the work of its Members, Committees and expert Commissions. IUCN membership in Oceania is diverse, drawing together more than 40 Members from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands. IUCN Commissions are strongly represented in the region, with more than 500 expert volunteers across the six Commissions.
Status of the environment in the Republic of Palau
Environmental Monitoring and Governance, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

Sakuma Belhaim

2004
Palau is blessed with a wealth of natural resources. We enjoy clean air, clean water, abundant marine life, and healthy, productive reefs. Our stunning Rock Islands and majestic dive sites continue to draw admiration from around the world. But Patau's wealth is not just found in its natural resources. Palau has also been blessed with a wealth of human resources and technical capabilities. The population of Palau is well educated and highly talented, and makes use of the most advanced computer and development techniques on a daily basis. Weaving these sources of natural and human wealth together is perhaps the most important resource of all: our traditions. Palauans maintain strong cultural ties to their land, their waters, and their history, and with these ties we strive to preserve and conserve all of our precious resources.
Sea cucumber fisheries : a manager's toolbox
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

Bell, J

,

Friedman K

,

Hair, C

,

Purcell S

2008
Fishers have changed their methods from wading in the shallows to the use of sail and paddle canoes, and dinghies with outboard motors. This has resulted in greater coverage of the area where sea cucumbers live, more regular fishing, access to remote areas and the capacity to transport greater catches. Loss of much larger numbers of sea cucumbers from many areas as a result of this increased fishing pressure reduces the chances of adults remaining at densities high enough for effective reproduction. When sea cucumbers are 'thinned out' by over-fishing, they are not always able to find mates to breed with during the spawning season.
Environmental risks associated with submarine tailings discharge in Astrolabe Bay, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

Mineral Policy Institute

1999
Highlands Pacific Limited is currently seeking finance for the development of a Nickel-Cobalt mine in Madang Province. Papua New Guinea. The mine will be located near the Ramu River, with processing facilities at Basamuk Bay on the Rai Coast. Basainuk Bay is a small embayment of the larger Astrolabe Bay. Highlands Pacific plans to dispose of mill tailings through a submarine outfall into Astrolabe Bay. Oceanographic conditions in Astrolabe Bay make this practise inadvisable if consideration is given to the ecological health of the Madang region.
Report. Workshop on Research Needs for the Conservation and Management of Cetaceans in the Pacific Islands Region
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC)

2006
More than 20 cetacean species are known to exist in the Pacific Islands Region, which encompasses the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, or EEZ (waters out to 370 km from shore) around the entire Hawaiian Archipelago. Johnston Atoll. Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll. Baker and Howland Islands. Jarvis Island. American Samoa. Wake Island, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, totaling some 5.8 million km2 of ocean. Many of the species present are poorly studied throughout their range and virtually unstudied in large portions of the Pacific Islands Region. NOAA Fisheries (National Marine Fisheries Service. NMFS). a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has lead-agency responsibility for cetaceans under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 and the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Heretofore, the agency's Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) in La Jolla. California, and the NMFS regional office in Long Beach. California, were responsible for conducting management-related research and providing cetacean stock assessments throughout all U.S. waters of the temperate and tropical Pacific Ocean. Establishment of the Pacific Islands Region within NMFS in April 2003 initiated the devolution of those responsibilities within the region to the Pacific Islands Regional Office (PIRO) and Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) in Honolulu. Hawaii. It was expected that the transition of the research component from SWFSC to PIFSC would be gradual and that collaborative work between the two centers would continue for a considerable time into the future.
World Resources 2008 : roots of resilience-growing the wealth of the poor
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

World Resources Institute

2008
In World Resources 2005 we showed that ecosystems can become the focus of a powerful model for nature-based enterprise that delivers continuing economic and social benefits to die poor, even as it improves the natural resource base. Evidence shows that poor rural families empowered with secure resource rights can significantly increase their income stream from nature with prudent ecosystem management. To make this possible, a funda- mental shift in governance—in the power of the poor to access resources of value and build functional enterprises—is required.
Poverty, development, and biodiversity conservation: shooting in the dark?
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

Agrawal Arun

,

Redford Kent

2006
Poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation are basic social goals and part of the policy agenda of postcolonial states and international agencies. It is not surprising therefore that a large number of programmatic interventions have aimed to achieve the two goals at the same time. These interventions are funded by governments, conservation NGOs, bilateral and multilateral donor agencies, and private sector organizations. In this paper, we first examine the conceptual discussion around poverty and biodiversity, and then analyze three such interventions: community-based wildlife management, extractive reserves, and ecotourism. Our discussion shows that the literature on these programmatic interventions depends on relatively simplified understandings of poverty and biodiversity in stark contrast to the theoretical literature on the two concepts. Further, writings on programmatic interventions tend to operationalize poverty and biodiversity in distinct and quite different ways.
Land, plants, animals and people: community-based biodiversity conservation (CBBC) as a basis for ecological, cultural and economic survival in the Pacific Islands
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

Thaman, R.R.

This paper suggests that this terrestrial and marine biodiversity inheritance constitutes the foundation upon which rests the survival of the relatively benign and peaceful ways of life in the Pacific ("Peaceful") Ocean. It is stressed that this inheritance, including traditional knowledge concerning it, is endangered by modem development and education, and that if it is not maintained or strengthened, the cultures, economies and rich biodiversity inheritances of Pacific societies WILL NOT SURVIVE.
Core evironmental indicators for reporting on the State of the Environment
Environmental Monitoring and Governance, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
Available Online

Environment Australia

2000
This report presents a set of indicators, referred to as the 'core' set. for reporting on the state of the environment across Commonwealth and State and Territory jurisdictions. The core indicators have been developed by the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council (ANZECC) through an extensive consultation process involving both government agencies and the general public.

www.sprep.org © 2021 - 2024. All rights reserved

Login