Efforts should be directed towards addressing a lack of accountability in governing mangrove marine protection areas (MPA), experts said at the ongoing fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress in Canada.
Advancing Global Biodiversity Governance: Recommendations for Strengthening the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Reversing ecosystem degradation and halting global biodiversity loss due to climate change and other anthropogenic drivers are essential for socioeconomic development and human wellbeing, as well as for advancing global sustainability. Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 9 p.
Participation, not enalties: Community Involvement and Equitable Governance Contribute to more Effective Multiuse Protected areas
Accelerating ecosystem degradation has spurred proposals ti vastly expand the extent of protected areas (PCs), potentially affecting the livelihoods and well-being of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) worldwide.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 13 p.
Seizing the Landscape Opportunity to Catalyse Transformative Biodiversity Governance
Nature and biodiversity are being lost worldwide, and the capacity of ecosystems to provide vital contributions to people is deteriorating. Most of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets for 2020 under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have not been achieved, and, if the trends of the last decades persist, biodiversity will continue to decline.
Advancing social equity and through marine conservation
Substantial efforts and investments are being made to increase the scale and improve the effectiveness of marine conservation globally. Though it is mandated by international law and central to conservation policy, less attention has been given to how to operationalize social equity in and through the pursuit of marine conservation. In this article, we aim to bring greater attention to this topic through reviewing how social
equity can be better integrated in marine conservation policy and practice. Advancing
Governance assessment for protected and conserved areas (GAPA)
The Governance Assessment for Protected Areas and Conserved Areas (GAPA) methodology manual is the product of four years workAvailable onlineCall Number: [EL]ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-78431-733-1Physical Description: 160 p
10th Pacific Islands Nature Conference 2020: Governance that Works for Nature Conservation (Video)
This session will explore three levels of governance: regional, national and interinstitutional. Through concrete examples at each level, the speakers will describe how governance is organized today in the region at different scales, how enforcement is ensured, and what issues are encountered at every level. Ideally, the outcomes of the session should constitute a good base to build guidelines useful to improve the efficiency to stakeholders in charge of nature conservation and protected areas.Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 1:04:13
IUCN WCPA Technical Note - Equity in conservation – what, why and how?
Achieving the target to conserve 30% of land and sea requires strong emphasis on equity. Equity in conservation is a matter of governance and includes recognition and respect for actors and their human and resource rights, equity in procedure (e.g., participation, accountability) and equitable cost/benefit distribution. Equity in conservation is crucial both for ethical reasons and for effective conservation and applies both to conservation actions on site, and to complementary actions designed to support conservation (e.g., stewardship incentives, support for local schools).
The pressure for both local level management and international conservation efforts foster a “scale mismatch,” in which the levels of governance of these two approaches feel at odds.
Lessons learnt in global biodiversity governance
INEA has featured many articles covering the dilemmas, puzzles, and tensions related to global biodiversity governance; this coverage was infrequent in earlier issues but has steadily increased as both environmental diplomacy and international law on biodiversity conservation and environmental justice have expanded. Using the defnition found in the Convention on Biological Diversity, we scanned INEA articles and derived several lessons learnt over the 2000–2020 period.
