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Does EbA Work? A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation
… Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation (EbA) integrate the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services into an overall strategy for helping … often been based on anecdotal case studies of local people’s use of ecosystems. Although they are informative, they can provide rather … and review studies from around the world, from many different ecosystems and adopting a wide range of adaptation approaches utilising …
Publication, 01 November 2011
A stone gabion constructed to control erosion across a gully in the Namaqualand region. (Photo: Halcyone Muller / Conservation South Africa)
EbA Evidence and Policy: South Africa
Project, 31 May 2018
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Local people must have real role in deciding next steps in saving world’s biodiversity
… more effective in combating the accelerated loss of wildlife and ecosystems that has characterised the last 25 years. “This is only … life on Earth. “Next to climate change the destruction of the world’s ecosystems and wildlife are the greatest threat we face. Protecting biodiversity needs to be a priority at the highest levels if we are to …
News, 16 November 2018
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Biodiversity Conservation and the Millennium Development Goals
… poverty by 2015 (1). Analogously, concern about global decline in biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services (2) gave rise in 1992 … "to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss" was incorporated into the MDGs in 2002. Our lack of … services, we need further integration of the poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation agendas. …
Publication, 01 September 2009
Map shows where the EbA Evidence and Policy project is being undertaken
Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation
Project, 15 July 2015
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A systematic map protocol: which components or attributes of biodiversity affect which dimensions of poverty?
… The assumption that biodiversity and ecosystem services can help in efforts to tackle poverty is implicit in international targets set for biodiversity conservation (by the Convention on Biological Diversity) … General Assembly further stressed the linkage, claiming: “preserving biodiversity is inseparable from the fight against poverty.” …
Publication, 01 April 2013
An illustration with a speech bubble: "We're dealing with multiple intertwined crises" with scales and illustrations depicting climate change, COVID-19, rising inequalities and biodiversity loss
A green recovery from COVID-19? Not without climate, nature and development solutions
Insight, 26 November 2020
Field visit as part of the Mountain Ecosystem-based Adaptation project, Mount Elgon, Uganda (IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Uganda
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to the adverse effects of … EbA at Mount Elgon The 'Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Mountain Ecosystems Project' focused on improving ecosystem management in four … Change (CBA11) , which focused on harnessing natural resources and ecosystems for adaptation. Our poster on ' Tools for adaptation: radio …
Project, 15 February 2018
The Las Trancas Valley in Chile, November 2014 (Photo: UICN / Marcelo Vildósola Garrigó)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Chile
Project, 21 February 2018
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Global recognition of the importance of nature-based solutions to the impacts of climate change
Publication, 14 May 2020