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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Convenient Solutions to an Inconvenient Truth: Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change
- Auflage
- 1
- Ort / Verlag
- Herndon: World Bank
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Link zum Volltext
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- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Global warming and changes in climate have already had observed impacts on natural ecosystems and species. Natural systems such as wetlands, mangroves, coral reefs, cloud forests, and Arctic and high-latitude ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate-induced disturbances. However, enhanced protection and management of biological resources and habitats can mitigate the impacts and contribute to solutions as nations and communities strive to adapt to climate change. Biodiversity is the foundation and mainstay of agriculture, forests, and fisheries. Biological resources provide the raw materials for livelihoods, agriculture, medicines, trade, tourism, and industry. Forests, grasslands, freshwater, and marine and other natural ecosystems provide a range of services often not recognized in national economic accounts but vital to human welfare: regulation of water flows and water quality, flood control, pollination, decontamination, carbon sequestration, soil conservation, and nutrient and hydrological cycling. Current efforts to address climate change focus mainly on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by adopting cleaner energy strategies and on reducing the vulnerability of communities at risk by improving infrastructure to meet new energy and water needs. This book offers a compelling argument for including ecosystem-based approaches to mitigation and adaptation as an essential pillar in national strategies to address climate change. Such ecosystem-based strategies can offer cost-effective, proven, and sustainable solutions that contribute to, and complement, other national and regional adaptation strategies.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0821381261, 9780821381267DOI: 10.1596/978-0-8213-8126-7Titel-ID: cdi_perlego_books_1483591
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- ACIDIFICATION, ADVERSE EFFECTS, AFFORESTATION, AFFORESTATION ACTIVITIES, AGRICULTURAL LAND, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURE, AIR, ALTITUDE, AMPHIBIANS, ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS, ANNUAL EMISSION, ANTARCTICA, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS, AQUATIC HABITATS, AQUATIC LIFE, AQUATIC SPECIES, ARID REGIONS, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC CARBON, BASINS, BEACHES, BIODIVERSITY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS, BIOLOGICAL CORRIDORS, BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES, BIOMASS, BIRDS, BOREAL FORESTS, CARBON, CARBON CONTENT, CARBON CREDITS, CARBON DIOXIDE, CARBON DISTRIBUTION, CARBON EMISSIONS, CARBON FINANCE, CARBON MARKET, CARBON MARKETS, CARBON OFFSETS, CARBON POOL, CARBON POOLS, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, CARBON SINK, CARBON SINKS, CARBON STOCK, CARBON STORAGE, CARBON STORAGE CAPACITY, CARBON STORES, CARBONATES, CASE STUDIES, CLEANER TECHNOLOGIES, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, Climatic changes, CO2, COAST, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL EROSION, COASTAL HABITATS, COASTAL STATES, COASTAL WATERS, COASTAL ZONE, COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT, COASTAL ZONES, COLORS, CONSERVATION AREAS, Conservation of natural resources, CORAL REEFS, CROP PRODUCTION, CROPS, CYCLONES, DAMS, DEFORESTATION ACTIVITIES, DEGRADED AREAS, DEGRADED LAND, DEGRADED LANDS, DESERTIFICATION, Developing countries, DRAINAGE, DROUGHT, ECOSYSTEM, Ecosystem management, ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE, Ecosystems, EMISSION, EMISSION REDUCTION, EMISSION REDUCTION TARGETS, EMISSION REDUCTIONS, EMISSIONS, EMISSIONS ABATEMENT, EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION, EMISSIONS FROM FUEL, Energy policy, ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, Environmental policy, EROSION, EROSION CONTROL, ESTUARIES, EXOTIC SPECIES, FIRE MANAGEMENT, FISH, FISHERIES, FLOOD CONTROL, FLOODING, FLOODS, FLUXES OF CARBON, FOREST AREA, FOREST CANOPY, FOREST CARBON STOCKS, FOREST CLEARING, FOREST CONSERVATION, FOREST CONVERSION, FOREST COVER, FOREST DEGRADATION, FOREST ECOSYSTEMS, FOREST EDGE, FOREST FIRES, FOREST INVESTMENT, FOREST LOSS, FOREST PRODUCTS, FOREST PROTECTION, FOREST SECTOR, FOREST TYPES, FORESTRY, FORESTS, FOSSIL FUEL, FOSSIL FUELS, FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE, FRESH WATER, FRESHWATER, FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, GHG, GLACIERS, GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE, GLOBAL CARBON DIOXIDE, GLOBAL CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS, GLOBAL CARBON SINK, GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY, GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL CARBON, GLOBAL WARMING, GRASSLANDS, GREEN HOUSE GASES, GREENHOUSE, GREENHOUSE GAS, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION, GREENHOUSE GASES, GROUND CARBON, HABITAT DEGRADATION, HABITATS, HIGHLANDS, HUMAN ACTIVITIES, HURRICANES, HYDROLOGY, INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS, INVASIVE SPECIES, IPCC, LAKES, LAND AREA, LAND DEGRADATION, LAND MANAGEMENT, LAND USE CHANGE, LEACHING, LOSS OF FOREST, LOSS OF SOIL CARBON, MANGROVES, MARINE RESOURCES, MARINE SYSTEMS, MARSHES, METHANE, METHANE EMISSIONS, MOUNTAINS, NATIVE SPECIES, NATURAL FORESTS, NATURAL WETLANDS, NITROUS OXIDE, NUTRIENTS, OCEAN CARBON, OCEANS, OIL PALM, ORGANIC CARBON, ORGANIC MATTER, PARTICLES, PARTICULATE, PEAT, PHOTOSYNTHESIS, PLANKTON, PLANT SPECIES, POLLUTANTS, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION PATTERNS, PROTECTING WETLANDS, QUALITY OF WATER, RAIN, RAINFALL, RAINFALL EVENTS, RANGES, RATE OF DEFORESTATION, RATES OF DEFORESTATION, RECREATIONAL USE, RESERVOIR, RESERVOIRS, RIVER, RIVER DELTAS, RIVERINE, SALTWATER INTRUSION, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA WATER, SOIL CARBON, SOILS, SPECIES DIVERSITY, SURFACE TEMPERATURE, Sustainable development, SUSTAINABLE FOREST, SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT, SWAMP, TEMPERATE FORESTS, TERRESTRIAL CARBON, TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS, THERMAL STRATIFICATION, TREE SPECIES, TROPICAL DEFORESTATION, TROPICAL FOREST, TROPICAL FORESTS, TROPICAL RAIN FOREST, TROPICAL REGIONS, TROPICS, VEGETATION, WATER QUALITY, WATERSHED, WATERSHED MANAGEMENT, WATERSHEDS, WEATHER CONDITIONS, WETLAND, WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS, WETLAND HABITATS, WETLAND RESTORATION, WETLAND SOILS, WETLANDS, WILDERNESS AREAS, WILDLIFE, WILDLIFE HABITAT, WIND