Search Results - "ecosystem degradation"

Evaluating landscape management interventions in Ethiopia: insights from local and scientific knowledge by Tegegne, Desalegn, Sieber, S., Uckert, G., Girma, R., Moges, A., Mekuria, Wolde

“…Changes in human behaviour have put pressure on land resources, causing environmental, social, and economic shifts, including ecosystem degradation, food insecurity, migration, school dropouts, loss of human life and livestock, and increased poverty. …”
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Guidelines for the establishment and management of multi-stakeholder platforms to coordinate integrated water resources management in river basins with a focus on the Central Rift... by Kassa, M., Lemma, Mamusha, Haile, Alemseged Tamiru, Mekuria, Wolde, Gezahagn, A., Asnakew, M., Haileslassie, Amare

“…This basin faces numerous water-related challenges such as increasing water demand, pollution, ecosystem degradation, climate change impacts, and conflicting water-use practices. …”
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Resilient, healthy, and sustainable food systems for biodiversity conservation and use 2030 Action Targets: A global collection of good practice cases by Bioversity International, World Wildlife Fund International, Global Crop Diversity Trust, United Nations Environment Programme

“…That today’s unsustainable agricultural practices are both driving and suffering from the effects of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem degradation is not under dispute. Modern food systems also invest in and rely on just a narrow handful of plant and animal species. …”
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Vegetated roofs as a nature-based solution to mitigate climate change in a semiarid city by Robbiati, Federico Omar, Cáceres, Natalia, Barea Paci, Gustavo Javier, Ovando, Gustavo, Jim, C.Y., Suárez, Mario Adolfo, Hick, Emmanuel Christian Bernard, Rubio, Esteban Julian, Galetto, Leonardo, Imhot, Lelia

“…Such changes have made the urban environment more vulnerable to climate change.Serious environmental, social and economic problems could be generated due to urban ecosystem degradation [9]. Consequently, it is urgent to develop and implement strategies to reduce atmospheric CO2 emissions in the urban context [3,10], given that urbanization has drastically intensified worldwide in recent years [6,11]. …”
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Forest and land fires, toxic haze and local politics in Indonesia by Purnomo, H., Okarda, B., Shantiko, B., Achdiawan, R., Dermawan, A., Kartodihardjo, H., Dewayani, A.A.

“…The immediate fire effects directly and the long-term landscape ecosystem degradations indirectly cause major and persisting and serious problems of public health and ecosystem service. …”
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Assessing the impacts of nature-based solutions on ecosystem services: A Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems nexus approach in the Nima River Sub-Basin (Colombia) by Restrepo, Juan Diego, Bottaro, Giorgia, Barci, Linda, Beltran, Lucila Marcela, Londoño-Behaine, Martin, Masiero, Mauro

“…However, rapid land use changes driven by agricultural expansion, urbanization, and industrial activities have significantly altered forest ecosystems, degrading the services they provide. We here conduct an ecosystem service assessment through biophysical and economic estimates for a multipurpose Andean water sub-basin in western Colombia. …”
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Atteindre la sécurité alimentaire dans le contexte du changement climatique : Résumé de la Commission sur l'agriculture durable et le changement climatique à l'attention des décide... by Beddington, J.R., Asaduzzaman, Mohammed, Fernández, A., Clark, Megan E., Guillou, Marion, Jahn, Molly M., Erda, Lin, Mamo, Tekalign, Bo N Van, Nobre, Carlos A., Scholes, Robert J., Sharma, Rita, Wakhungu, Judi W.

“…Un accroissement important des investissements dans l'agriculture durable, notamment dans une amélioration de l'infrastructure de base et une restauration des écosystèmes dégradés, constitue un composant essentiel du développement économique à long terme. …”
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