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This issue is written and edited by Leanne Burney <leanne@iisd.org>, Laura Ivers <laura@iisd.org>, Violette Lacloche <violette@iisd.org> and Alison Ormsby <alison@iisd.org>. The Editor is Lynn Wagner, Ph.D. <lynn@iisd.org>. The Digital Editor is Andrei Henry <andrei@iisd.org>. The Director of IISD Reporting Services (including Sustainable Developments) is Langston James "Kimo" Goree VI <kimo@iisd.org>. Funding for coverage of this meeting has been provided by IUCN. The authors can be contacted at their electronic mail addresses and at tel: +1-212-644-0204. IISD can be contacted at 161 Portage Avenue East, 6th Floor, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 0Y4, Canada; tel: +1-204-958-7700; fax: +1-204-958-7710. The opinions expressed in Sustainable Developments are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of IISD and other funders. Excerpts from Sustainable Developments may be used in other publications with appropriate academi...
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The Global Water System Project: Science Framework and Implementation Activities
2005
Water plays a key role in the development and functioning of society by serving as a basic resource for activities such as irrigation, livestock production, fisheries, aquaculture, and hydroelectric power. Adequate water use in house-holds, businesses and manufacturing is a prerequisite of economic growth. Since many of the world's diseases are waterborne, we need clean water and sanitation for reducing the incidence of these diseases. And, most significantly, water provides habitat and sustenance for a rich diversity of plant and animal species that make up aquatic and riparian ecosystems, providing the basis for many of the goods and services received by society. Society is forcing unprecedented changes on global water resources through worldwide abstraction and pollution of water. Society also has a pervasive indirect impact because anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are causing long-term global changes in weather extremes and climate. Changes in the global water system a...
Exploring the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN's) National Program Development in Biodiversity Conservation: A Comparative Study of India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh
2012
Abstract This dissertation investigates IUCN's role in global biodiversity conservation policy as well as in national program development in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. It explores how nature protection priorities and approaches are promoted or addressed by IUCN, an international organization, and how environment conservation policies are created and maintained in states with different capacities of South Asia.
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
A project of the Centre for Health
and the Global Environment,
Harvard Medical School, under
the auspices of WHO and UNEP.
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
Goal: To educate policy-makers
and the public about the
dependency of human life and
health on the health of other
species and on the integrity of
global ecosystems.
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
The two-year project has
established seven working groups
with scientists and public health
professionals from both developed
and developing countries.
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
Working Group 1: A status
report on global biodiversity and
the driving forces of species loss
Co-chairs: Stewart Pimm and
Maria Alice Alves
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
Working Group 2: Ecosystembased life support systems
Co-chairs: Jerry Melillo and
Osvaldo Sala
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
Working Group 3: Medicines
from natural sources
Co-chairs: David Newman and
John Kilama
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
Working Group 4: The role of
species in medical research
Co-chairs: Eric Chivian and
Joshua Rosenthal
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
Working Group 5: Ecosystem
disruption, biodiversity, and
human infectious diseases
Co-chairs: David Molyneux and
Richard Ostfeld
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
Working Group 6: The role of
biodiversity in world food
production
Co-chairs: Daniel Hillel and
Cynthia Rosenzweig
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
Working Group 7: Policy options
Co-chairs: Jeff McNeely and
Madhav Gadgil
BIODIVERSITY AND
HUMAN HEALTH
Products from the project:
•A popular book with extensive
illustrations and case studies (2003).
•Executive summary, also heavily
illustrated, containing main
conclusions from each chapter.
Targeted at decision makers (2003).
•Technical report, written for
scientists with complete references
that can be consulted; will be placed
on-line by early 2004.
•A contribution to the section on
human health in the final report of
the Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment (2004).
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