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  1. Library Resource
    Políticas Nacionales
    Honduras, Américas, América central

    Mediante el presente instrumento estratégico el Estado de Honduras da cumplimiento a uno de los compromisos adquiridos con la ratificación del Convenio sobre Diversidad Biológica, que incluye precisamente el desarrollo de una Estrategia Nacional de Biodiversidad y su respectivo Plan de Acción.

  2. Library Resource
    Legislación
    Panamá, Américas, América central

    La presente Ley aprueba el Plan Regional para el Desarrollo de la Región Interoceánica y el Plan General de Uso, Conservación y Desarrollo del Área del Canal, como instrumentos de ordenamiento territorial de la región interoceánica, para que sirvan como marco normativo a la incorporación de los bienes revertidos al desarrollo nacional, para las zonificaciones y usos del suelo en la región interoceánica que realicen los entes gubernamentales y los particulares.

  3. Library Resource
    Materiales institucionales y promocionales
    Marzo, 2004
    Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, México, Perú, Uruguay, Venezuela

    Documento presentado en la 50ª. Reunión del Comité Permanente de la C.I.T.E.S. Ginebra. Preparado por: Unidad de Vida Silvestre y Ecosistemas Frágiles.Ministerio del Ambiente. República del Ecuador.

  4. Library Resource
    Junio, 2012
    Costa Rica

    This paper describes and analyzes the effort to institute river basin management in the Tárcoles basin of Costa Rica. Located in west-central Costa Rica, the Tárcoles basin represents 4.2 percent of the nation's total land area, but is home to half the nation's population and the metropolitan area of San José, the nation's capital and largest city. Water management issues include severe water pollution resulting from sewage, industrial waste discharges, agricultural runoff, and deforestation.

  5. Library Resource
    Abril, 2014
    Guatemala

    This paper uses data from Guatemala to
    map areas that are important for the provision of indirect
    ecosystem services, services whose benefits are enjoyed at
    some distance from the ecosystem that provides them, such as
    watershed services (enjoyed downstream) or biodiversity
    conservation (enjoyed globally). These services are usually
    externalities from the perspective of land users, and so
    tend to be under-provided. Mapping the areas that supply

  6. Library Resource
    Agosto, 2012
    Panamá

    Tourism is one of Latin America's
    fastest growing industries, outranking remittances and even
    drugs in many countries as a source of foreign exchange. But
    the impact of tourism on the poor and on the environment
    remains under debate. Certainly many suspect that tourism
    does more harm than good, damaging the environment and
    leaving the poor worse off while shipping profits overseas.
    But few have actually analyzed the impact of tourism on the

  7. Library Resource
    Marzo, 2013
    Nicaragua

    Globally, an estimated 24 percent of the
    disease burden (healthy life years lost) and an estimated 23
    percent of all deaths (premature mortality) are attributable
    to environmental risks (World Health Organization, or WHO
    2006). The burden of disease is unequally shared, with the
    children and the poor being particularly affected. Among
    children between the ages 0 and 14, the proportion of deaths
    attributable to environmental risks, such as poor water and

  8. Library Resource
    Enero, 2014
    Nicaragua

    This study, policy and investment
    priorities to reduce environmental degradation of the Lake
    Nicaragua watershed, has assessed the sources and the
    magnitude of the pressures that threaten Lake Cocibolca. It
    was accomplished by applying a hydrological and land use
    model to the lake's watershed and by conducting
    additional estimates of nutrients generated from wastewater
    sources and tilapia farming. The study has confirmed that

  9. Library Resource
    Panamá

    The Land Administration Project aims to a) ensure equitable access to land and improve land tenure security by providing land administration services in selected rural, peri-urban, and urban areas; and b) enhance natural resources conservation through the consolidation of the National System of Projected Areas and indigenous peoples territories.

  10. Library Resource
    Harmonizing Land Tenure in National Protected Areas in Honduras cover image
    Documentos de política y resúmenes
    Diciembre, 2014
    Honduras

    If you cannot view, click here.Guest commentary by Christopher Seeley, Chief of Party of the USAID Honduras ProParque project.
    One of the most vexing challenges in biodiversity conservation in developing countries is reconciling land tenure and land use issues that emerge when previously unprotected or unregulated ecosystems are placed under state control as part of a national protected areas system.

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