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Managing coasts with natural solutions
This brief summarizes new groundbreaking guidelines published in February 2016 for measuring and valuing the coastal protection benefits of mangroves and coral reefs.
Resiliencia costera en el Caribe
Las comunidades con gran dependencia en ecosistemas costeros sufrirán efectos catastróficos a causa del cambio climático.
Coastal Resilience in the Caribbean
Communities which are heavily dependent on coastal ecosystems will suffer catastrophic effects from climate change. Can we reduce these impacts by enhancing the resilience of coastal and marine ecosystems in order to stabilize shorelines, reduce flooding and improve public access?
Conservation Letters: Managing natural capital stocks for the provision of ecosystem services
This article provides a framework that explicitly links natural capital stocks to ecosystem service provision and identifies manageable attributes of natural capital stocks as the critical intervention point.
Country Brief: Philippines - Natural capital accounting as a planning tool
WAVES will help the Philippines measure the country’s natural resources and evaluate how they can be used equitably and sustainably.
Environmental economic accounts compendium
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) is presenting this report that includes the summarised environmental economic accounts for energy, fisheries and minerals. Indicators derived from the environmental economic accounts tables are featured.
Ecosystem accounting: Thematic accounts, 1971 to 2011
Statistics Canada is releasing land cover and land use data for selected geographical areas for 1971, 1991, 2001 and 2011. These data track changes in the extent of built-up area by census metropolitan area (CMA) and CMA–ecosystem. Data are available in CANSIM.
Study: The changing landscape of Canadian metropolitan areas, 1971 to 2011
The built-up area of Canada's census metropolitan areas more than doubled in size from 1971 to 2011.
Policy Roundtable (Presentation by Michael Vardon)
Presentation by Michael Vardon, Australian National University. Presented in Bogota, Colombia during a workshop organized by the Statistics Division of the UN Economic Division for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), WAVES, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), from March 16-17, 2016.
Uso de cuentas ambientales para el desarrollo de políticas (Presentación por Hector Antonio Tuy)
Presentación por Héctor Tuy, Instituto de Investigación y Proyección sobre Ambiente Natural y Sociedad (IARNA). Presentado en Bogotá, Colombia, durante un taller organizado por la División de Estadística de la División Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (ECLAC), WAVES y la Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), del 16-17 de marzo de 2016.