[français] L'AFD
devient partenaire d'un fonds mondial de protection de la biodiversité
L'Agence Française de Développement (AFD) devient
le sixième partenaire du CEPF (Critical Ecosystem Partnership
Fund), fonds mondial de protection de l'environnement et lui verse
la somme de 25 millions de dollars. Les moyens de subsistance de
millions d'individus dépendent directement de la biodiversité,
c'est pourquoi sa préservation constitue une condition sine
qua non au développement de ces populations, a déclaré
Jean-Michel Severino, Directeur général de l'AFD.
Au total, le CEPF annonce aujourd'hui dans un communiqué
50 millions de dollars de nouvelles contributions par l'AFD mais
aussi la Conservation International (CI), l'un des partenaires fondateurs
du CEPF...
Actu-Environnement. Actualités.
Bréves de l'Environment. France. Publication: 22-08-2007
[français] R.
Savage traverse le Pacifique à la rame pour sensibiliser
sur la pollution des océans
Le 10 juillet, l'américaine Roz Savage a présenté
son projet de relier San Francisco à l'Australie, seule à
bord d’un canot à rames de 7 mètres en trois
étapes, à travers l’Océan Pacifique.
Ce voyage, sponsorisé par Brocade, spécialiste des
solutions de stockage en réseau, est un projet de la Blue
Frontier Campaign, organisme de protection marine à but non
lucratif, mené en collaboration avec le programme des sanctuaires
marins nationaux de l’Administration Nationale Atmosphérique
et Océanique des États-Unis (NOAA)...
Actu-Environnement. Actualités.
Bréves de l'Environment. France. Publication: 22-08-2007
Critical
Ecosystem Partnership Fund's Council Approves 5-Year Strategy
The council of donors that governs the Critical Ecosystem Partnership
Fund (CEPF) approved a Strategic Framework in July that sets a new
5-year vision for the global program, including investment in at
least 14 biodiversity hotspots. CEPF will further strengthen the
program in selected biodiversity hotspots that have already received
CEPF support and expand investments to other critical ecosystems
to: strengthen protection and management of biodiversity within
selected hotspots and critical ecosystems; increase local and national
capacity to integrate biodiversity conservation into development
and landscape planning and expand and improve monitoring and learning
to demonstrate biodiversity impact and enable adaptive management
and replication.
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF).
Our Strategy. Strategic Framework. USA. Publicated: 20-08-2007
Catalog
of Conservation Social Science Tools
This Catalog is designed for conservation practitioners, planners,
students and researchers interested in the social dimensions of
conservation. The aim is to provide conservation practitioners with
greater capacity to integrate social sciences into their work by
linking practitioners to key social science tools and methodological
approaches, and by providing context for these tools.
Society for Conservation Biology (SCB).
Social Science. Tools. USA. Publicated: 20-08-2007
CVA
Monthly e-News: August Conservation Volunteers e-News
Conservation Volunteers e-News is the monthly email newsletter that
is filled with information about upcoming conservation projects,
nature holidays, opportunities to volunteer overseas and special
offers.
Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA).
Australia. Publication Date: 20-08-2007
UNESCO-IHP,
UNESCO-IHE and International Water History Association launch course
on World History of Water Management
A 5-day short course on the “World History of Water Management”
will be offered for the first time in September 2007, drawing both
on historical experiences from different parts of the world and
on experts from the International Water History Association (IWHA).
Many of these are involved in the UNESCO “History of Water
and Civilization” project, and in the framework of cooperation
among IWHA, UNESCO-IHP, and UNESCO-IHE. The course aims to (1) provide
a comprehensive overview of archaeological and historical developments
in water management including water harvesting, water supply, transportation,
delivery, treatment, hydraulic engineering and allocation (with
contributions including the physical sciences, technology, ecology,
engineering, organisation, politics, law governance) in different
parts of the world and within various cultural contexts; (2) develop
an appreciation of the role of cultural dynamics involved in managing
water resources, especially at times of perceived water scarcity,
and (3) comprehend the historical antecedents of our current paradigm
of water management and what can be learned from historical case
studies on the basis of the knowledge and experience of several
scholars from different countries and from the exchange of experiences
to be generated between course participants and experts.
UNESCO. Water Portal. Newsletter 191. France.
Publicated: 27-07-2007
International
Social Science Journal Nº 187: Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity.
March 2006
This issue investigates the relations between local and indigenous
societies and nature from the Philippines to Benin, from the sub-Arctic
to Melanesia, and from Thailand to France. The papers focus on hybrid
objects, which are at the same time natural and cultural, and stand
at the limit between the domestic and the wild: local varieties
and breeds, localised production processes, and landscapes modified
by societies and qualified as natural and cultural.
UNESCO. Social & Human Sciences. ISSJ.
France. Publicated: 24-07-2007 |
