How to bring ecological services into integrated water resources management
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An overview is presented on the goals of the Global Water Partnership, an international organization formed in 1995 to maximize water resource development and management without compromising the environment. Goals include using hydrological data, such as water feedback loops to soil, plants, and atmosphere, to form use strategies.
Publication Name: Ambio
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0044-7447
Year: 2000
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Incorporating green-area user groups in urban ecosystem management
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The potential of urban green areas managed by local user groups to support biodiversity and ecosystem services in growing city-regions was analyzed using Stockholm, Sweden as a model city-region. The findings concluded that the incorporation of locally managed lands into comanagement designs has the potential to improve conditions for urban biodiversity and of reducing ecosystem management's transaction costs.
Publication Name: Ambio
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0044-7447
Year: 2006
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Managing climate change impacts to enhance the resilience and sustainability of Fennoscandian forests
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A study addressing the challenges and opportunities for sustainable forest management in Sweden and other Fennoscandian countries due to the rapidly changing of global environment is presented. The greatest challenge facing the forestry in Fennoscandia is restoring biological diversity by designing and implementing a creative program that uses climate change to foster sustainable forestry.
Publication Name: Ambio
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0044-7447
Year: 2007
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