To improve coastal protection, resource managers, governments, local municipalities, tribal nations, military installations, non-governmental organizations, and private property owners are increasingly turning to nature-based solutions. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are broadly defined as “actions to protect...
The Nature ConservancyElsevier GmbHJournal for Nature ConservationNixon, K., Silbernagel, J., Price, J., Miller, N., & Swaty, R. (2014). Habitat availability for multiple avian species under modeled alternative conservation scenarios in the two Hearted River watershed in Michigan, USA. Journal...
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For instance, the Nature Conservancy operates a $3 billion budget in 30 countries.[22] In addition, there have been issues with the salary of senior officials. In the Netherlands, journalists made an issue of the salary of a senior CSO official who commanded more money than the Prime ...
The worldwide variation in vegetation height is fundamental to the global carbon cycle and central to the functioning of ecosystems and their biodiversity. Geospatially explicit and, ideally, highly resolved information is required to manage terrestrial
Only 10% of the ABC Program's budget is spent in the northern states, which make up the majority of the Amazon biome [81]. Overall, sustainable credit lines make up only 1.9% of all agricultural credit in Brazil [79], and there are currently no sustainable credit lines which are ...
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et al. Global carbon budget 2017. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 10, 405–448 (2018). Article Google Scholar Smith, P. et al. in Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, 811–922 (IPCC, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014). The latest IPCC assessment report of mitigation potential estimates...
nature reserve (redirected fromNatural reserve) Encyclopedia nature reserve n (Environmental Science) an area of land that is protected and managed in order to preserve a particular type of habitat and its flora and fauna which are often rare or endangered ...
Geospatial Conservation Atlas - The Nature Conservancy's geospatial portal includes web maps, apps, a map gallery, local initiative portals, conservation data, and other resources. National Geologic Map Database - This is a nation wide geologic map database developed by USGS's National Geologic Map...