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PRONEA- Progeama Nacional de Educação Ambiental

Journal Articles & Books
Mai, 2014
Brésil

A Educação Ambiental surge como política pública no
Brasil com o estabelecimento da Política Nacional
de Meio Ambiente – PNMA (Lei nº 6.938, de 1981),
no contexto da Conferência Intergovernamental de Educação Ambiental de Tbilisi (1977), que destacou o processo educativo como dinâmico, integrativo, permanente e transformador, justamente porque possibilita a aquisição de conhecimentos e habilidades de forma participativa. Desde então, outros marcos legais foram estabelecidos.

Harnessing innovations, technologies and management of Africa’s natural resources for transformation: strategic approaches, results, challenges and opportunities

Conference Papers & Reports
Mai, 2014
Africa

This document focuses on Harnessing innovations, technologies and management of Africa’s natural resources for transformation: strategic approaches, results, challenges and opportunities.

Paying for Biodiversity Conservation Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Mai, 2014

This paper describes the contract
mechanism developed for the Regional Integrated
Silvopastoral Ecosystem Management Project, which is being
implemented with financing from the Global Environment
Facility (GEF). The project is testing the use of the
payment-for-service mechanism to encourage the adoption of
silvopastoral practices in three countries of Central and
South America: Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. The

Biodiversity Conservation in the Context of Tropical Forest Management

Mai, 2014

This paper disaggregates the term
"biodiversity" into components (landscapes,
ecosystems, communities, species/populations, and genes) and
attributes (structure, composition, and function). It then
disaggrgates "logging" by detailing the vast range
of activities subsumed under the term including variation of
logging intensities, logging methods, collateral damage, and
silvicultural approaches. Using the richness present in both

Overview of the State of Indigenous Peoples in Asia

Policy Papers & Briefs
Mai, 2014
Asia

In Asia “indigenous peoples” as a term is contentious. The fact remains, however, that the individual and collective rights of peoples who self-identify as indigenous peoples are being violated on a daily basis. All too often, their territories are sacrificed and expropriated for state-sponsored development and corporate projects that lead to gross and wide-scale violations of their collective rights, especially regarding their lands, territories, and resources.