Climate-Smart Landscapes: Multifunctionality in Practice

Climate-Smart Landscapes: Multifunctionality in Practice
Author: Peter A. Minang
Publisher: ASB Partnership for The Tropical Forest margins
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2014-11-30
Genre: Agroforestry systems
ISBN: 929059375X

Climate-Smart Landscapes: Multifunctionality in Practice is about a 'landscape approach' to achieving multiple climate, social, development and environmental objectives. It builds on climate-smart landscapes as a growing platform and pathway towards achieving multi functionality. This book in 27 chapters draws strongly from practices, methods, examples and considerations for applying landscape approaches to achieve multifunctional outcomes and in particular, address the complex challenge of climate change. http://asb.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/count/click.php?id=2

Bonobos

Bonobos
Author: Hare & Yamamoto
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2016
Genre:
ISBN: 0198728514

Bonobos

Bonobos
Author: Brian Hare
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-10-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0191044202

The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives. Their relatively narrow geographic range (south of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo) combined with the history of political instability in the region, has made their scientific study extremely difficult. In contrast, there are dozens of wild and captive sites where research has been conducted for decades with chimpanzees. Because data sets on bonobos have been so hard to obtain and so few large-scale studies have been published, the majority of researchers have treated chimpanzee data as being representative of both species. However, this misconception is now rapidly changing. With relative stability in the DRC for over a decade and a growing community of bonobos living in zoos and sanctuaries internationally, there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the bonobo with dozens of high impact publications focusing on this fascinating species. This research has revealed exactly how unique bonobos are in their brains and behavior, and reminds us why it is so important that we redouble our efforts to protect the few remaining wild populations of this iconic and highly endangered great ape species.

Deforestation Trends in the Congo Basin

Deforestation Trends in the Congo Basin
Author: Carole Megevand
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2013-01-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821397427

"This volume is a product of the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank."

Transboundary Governance of Biodiversity

Transboundary Governance of Biodiversity
Author: Louis J. Kotzé
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2014-06-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004273891

Transboundary Governance of Biodiversity compiles critical analysis of the regulatory frameworks applicable to the transboundary governance of biodiversity by specialists from Europe and Africa. Drawing on their vast experience as lawyers, political scientists and natural resource management experts, they provide a critique and contemporary perspectives on what has become one of the most challenging aspects of global environmental governance in the Anthropocene: effective biodiversity conservation in times of unprecedented environmetal crises. With a unique North-South focus and a legal focus infused by multi-disciplinary regulatory dimensions, this peer-reviewed publication offers a comprehensive analysis of international and regional environmental law frameworks applicable to the transboundary governance of biodiversity.