The BIOFUND Virtual Library is an online archive of information on Mozambique’s biodiversity, organized along the lines suggested by the Convention on Biodiversity’s Clearing House Mechanism. The Virtual Library will strive to make available all the documents, studies, reports, articles, educational and communications materials, maps and digital files that have been produced, to serve as a repository of our collective institutional memory as a conservation community. The usefulness of the Virtual Library will improve the more we share amongst ourselves. If you have any materials that are not currently part of the Virtual Library, please click on "Add Document" and become a contributor.
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Author
Year of Publication
Durham Cathedral and Castle World Heritage Site Management Plan
CHRIS BLANDFORD ASSOCIATES
2006
N/A
Built in the late 11th and early 12th centuries to house the relics of St Cuthbert, the evangelist of Northumbria and the Venerable Bede, the Cathedral attests to the importance of the early Benedictine monastic community and is the largest and best example of Norman architecture in England. The innovative audacity of its vaulting foreshadowed Gothic architecture. Behind the Cathedral is the Castle, an ancient Norman fortress which was the residence of the Prince-Bishops of Durham.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Durham Cathedral and Castle World Heritage Site Management Plan
User’s Manual for the Singapore Index on Cities’ Biodiversity
Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP9)
2009
N/A
The ninth meeting of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP9) in Bonn, Germany, recognized the role of cities and local authorities and the fact that the implementation of national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) requires the close collaboration with subnational levels of government. In the light of the above, the Minister for National Development of Singapore, Minister Mah Bow Tan, proposed the establishment of an index to measure biodiversity in cities, at the high level segment of COP9, on 27 May 2008. Following up on his announcement, the first expert workshop on the development of the City Biodiversity Index (CBI) took place from 10 to 12 February 2009 at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
User’s Manual for the Singapore Index on Cities’ Biodiversity
Estratégia e Plano de Acção Nacionais para a Biodiversidade (2007-2012)
Kuedikuenda, S. & Russo, V.
2007
N/A
A Estratégia e Plano de Acção Nacionais para a Biodiversidade é o culminar de um processo de investigação, auscultação e consulta pública desenvolvido ao longo de quase dois anos de trabalho a nível de todo o território nacional. O presente documento é também o início de uma nova fase para a conservação e o uso sustentável da biodiversidade em Angola.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Estratégia e Plano de Acção Nacionais para a Biodiversidade (2007-2012)
Biodiversity Supplementary Planning Guidance for Norfolk
Ad
Sd
N/A
Biodiversity is recognised as a key indicator of sustainable development, as it offers social, economic and environmental benefits in terms of quality of life, local distinctiveness, lifelong learning, recreation and tourism. This guidance seeks to emphasise the importance of adopting a positive approach to biodiversity protection and enhancement, and sets out the key considerations relating to wildlife and biodiversity that should be taken into account in all development proposals.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Biodiversity Supplementary Planning Guidance for Norfolk
Macquarie Island Nature Reserve and World Heritage Area Management Plan
Parks and Wildlife Service
2006
N/A
This management plan for the Macquarie Island Nature Reserve and World Heritage Area has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of Part 3 of the National Parks and Reserves Management Act 2002. This plan replaces the Macquarie Island Nature Reserve Management Plan 1991 in accordance with s. 19(2)(b) of the National Parks and Reserves Management Act 2002. The appendices provide additional information and are not part of the statutory plan. In accordance with s.30(1)(a) of the National Parks and Reserves Management Act 2002, the managing authority for the reserve, in this case the Director of National Parks and Wildlife, will give effect to the provisions of this management plan.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Official Government Document
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Macquarie Island Nature Reserve and World Heritage Area Management Plan
Management Plan Richtersveld Community Conservancy
Richtersveld Community Conservancy
2006
N/A
These management committee members had to give ideas or concept proposals at the next workshop or meeting, which was held in Port Nolloth on 16 May 2004. At this meeting it was decided that the members responsible for the above mentioned plans had to come up with concept proposals at the next scheduled meeting in August 2004.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Management Plan Richtersveld Community Conservancy
St Kilda World Heritage Site Management Plan 2003 – 2008
National Trust for Scotland
2003
N/A
This is the second St Kilda Management Plan to address cultural and natural (including marine) heritage interests in a balanced and integrated way and the first to do so from the basis of explicit agreement between the partner organisations closely involved in the management of the site.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
St Kilda World Heritage Site Management Plan 2003 – 2008
Stonehenge World Heritage Site Management Plan 2009
Young, C.; Chadburn, A. & Bedu, I.
2009
N/A
English Heritage
The Stonehenge WHS is globally important not just for Stonehenge, but for its unique and dense concentration of outstanding prehistoric monuments and sites, which together form a landscape without parallel. We will care for and safeguard this special area and its archaeology and will provide a more tranquil, biodiverse and rural setting for it, allowing present and future generations to enjoy it and the landscape more fully.
English
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Stonehenge World Heritage Site Management Plan 2009
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Management Plan 2002
Parks and Wildlife Service
2002
N/A
Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment
This plan has been prepared to provide for the construction and operation of an Eco Tourism Development on a site located on the coast between the mouth of Cockle Creek and Fishers Point. The proposal was initially known as the Planter Beach Eco Tourism Development but the site is now being referred to as Cockle Creek East.
English
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Management Plan 2002
The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site Management Plan
Edinburgh World Heritage
2005
N/A
Our aspiration is to protect the irreplaceable legacy of Edinburgh’s heritage whilst carefully managing the changes required for modern living.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Official Government Document
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site Management Plan
Co-management of Natural Resources: Organising, Negotiating and Learning by Doing
Borrini-Feyerabend, G.
2000
N/A
IUCN
This document was developed on the basis of five presentations given at a workshop of the Réseau Cogestion (Co-management Network) in Maroua (Cameroon), in January 1999. The network was set up by the GTZ/IUCN project Co-management for Nature Conservation in Unstable Socio-political Conditions : “Learning by Doing” in the Congo Basin, for which the IUCN Collaborative Management Working Group is called to provide technical assistance.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Co-management of Natural Resources: Organising, Negotiating and Learning by Doing
“Rock Drawings in Valle Camonica” Management Plan
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
2005
N/A
The request made by UNESCO to the Italian government to make the preparation of Management Plans obligatory for all World Heritage Sites listed before 2002 (in accordance with the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Paris 16th November 1972) necessitated the drafting of a Plan for Site N° 94 “Rock Drawings in Valcamonica”, the first Italian site to be recognised as World Cultural Heritage, in 1979.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Official Government Document
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
“Rock Drawings in Valle Camonica” Management Plan
Diamond Industry Annual Review
IDRC
2004
N/A
The Annual Review 2004 examines the state of the Angolan diamond industry today, and will hopefully serve as a benchmark against which future developments can be measured.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Threats to Biodiversity
None
Diamond Industry Annual Review
PLANO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO TURÍSTICO DA Reserva Especial de Maputo e Extensão do Futi nas Componentes da ACTF
V&L Landscape Architects com colaboração da Agência de Desenvolvimento da Costa dos Elefantes
2006
Maputo
Este estudo tem como foco à componente moçambicana da ACTF e sinergias que directamente transmite às componentes na sua vizinhança. Para além disso, o estudo concentra-se sobretudo, nas questões referentes ao turismo e não tanto em assuntos relacionados com a sua gestão e outras questões.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Protected Areas
Maputo Special Reserve; Transfrontier Conservation Areas
PLANO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO TURÍSTICO DA Reserva Especial de Maputo e Extensão do Futi nas Componentes da ACTF
The genus Cyphostemma (Planch.) Alston (Vitaceae) in Angola
Sousa, F.; Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.
2011
N/A
Bradleya
An overview of the 22 taxa recorded in the genus Cyphostemma (Planch.) Alston (Vitaceae) in Angola is presented. An identification key to all taxa recorded is provided, together with a referenced list of taxa with synonymy, geographical distribution range, endemic status and the citation of type specimens that originated from the country. Distribution maps are also presented. A list of herbarium collections consulted is given in an appendix.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
The genus Cyphostemma (Planch.) Alston (Vitaceae) in Angola
Maputo Special Reserve Management Plan, First Edition
DNAC
2010
Maputo
The MSR was originally established to protect the elephant population in the area. Its purpose in the 1960s was expanded to include the protection of other large mammal species and again in the 1990s, the growing recognition of its wider biodiversity importance. The purpose of the MSR is now regarded as to contribute to the protected areas system of Mozambique by conserving the exceptional biodiversity of this coastal zone which lies in the Tongaland-Pondoland biogeographical region and enables linkages between marine, coastal and inland components.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
PA Management Document
Protected Areas
Maputo Special Reserve
Maputo Special Reserve Management Plan, First Edition
Tourism Development Framework for the Maputo Special Reserve and Futi Extension TFCA components
V&L Landscape Architects and Elephant Coast Development Agency
2006
Maputo
The focus of this study is on the Mozambican component of the TFCA and its direct synergies to neighboring components. This study also mainly concentrates on tourism issues, and not necessarily management or other issues.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Protected Areas
Maputo Special Reserve
Tourism Development Framework for the Maputo Special Reserve and Futi Extension TFCA components
Management Guidelines for IUCN Category V Protected Areas Protected Landscapes/Seascapes
Phillips, A.
2002
N/A
IUCN
We need protected areas for the values and benefits that they bring to society. Such places are broadly of two kinds: those where the emphasis is put on the protection of the natural world (even though this very often requires working with local people), and those where the focus is on maintaining a relationship between people and nature. It is this second idea – that of people and nature together – which is at the heart of the Protected Landscape approach; or, to use the language of IUCN’s protected area categorisation, Category V.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Protected Areas
International Protected Areas
Management Guidelines for IUCN Category V Protected Areas Protected Landscapes/Seascapes
Guidelines for Management Planning of Protected Areas
Thomas, L. & Middleton, J.
2003
N/A
IUCN
Management Planning is an essential step towards ensuring the proper management of protected areas. This is particularly so as we move forward to the 21st century and face increasing complexities in the management of our parks and reserves. The essential steps of good management planning embracing current best practice are not always understood by park agencies or planning practitioners. So I am pleased to see the publication of these Guidelines, which have been compiled by two very experienced planners.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Protected Areas
International Protected Areas
Guidelines for Management Planning of Protected Areas
Guide to Participatory Planning in Coastal and Marine Protected Areas
Windevoxhel, N. & Secaira, F.
2001
N/A
PROARCA
One of the most common problems encountered in planning for protected areas in developing countries has been opposition from local communities due to the opportunity costs when use is restricted within these areas. If we add to this the difficulties and costs of achieving a process that is truly participatory, as well as the absence of regulations ensuring genuine participation, it is easy to imagine why many of the management plans produced in the past and even today may have included consultation with stakeholder groups, in the best of cases, but were very rarely prepared together with them, as should occur.
English
No Restrictions
Marine Biodiversity; Coastal Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Protected Areas
International Protected Areas
Guide to Participatory Planning in Coastal and Marine Protected Areas
Framework and Guidelines for Development of Park Management Plans
Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET)
2011
N/A
More than a hundred years have passed since the establishment of the first Namibian parks in 1907. It is truly impressive how conservation areas have grown then. Parks are vital tools for conserving Namibia’s essential biodiversity. By managing parks, we will leave the irreplaceable assets and the unlimited potential they posses to future generations. Parks also draw hundreds of thousands of tourists to Namibia. The international fascination with Namibia’s parks is growing annually and, as more visitors arrive, they generate employment and stimulate development, not just in the parks, but nationwide.
English
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Protected Areas
International Protected Areas
Framework and Guidelines for Development of Park Management Plans
Tourism Development Framework (Stage 1) – Mozambican component of Ndumo/Tembe/Futi TFCA
V&L Landscape Architects
2006
Maputo
Peace Parks Foundation
To determine a sustainable tourism development framework for the Mozambican component of the Usuthu / Tembe / Futi TFCA, based on maximization of opportunities to become a premier tourism destination in southern Africa
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
Maputo Special Reserve; Transfrontier Conservation Areas
Tourism Development Framework (Stage 1) – Mozambican component of Ndumo/Tembe/Futi TFCA
Wildlife Thriving in Maputo Special reserve, Mozambique
Peace Parks Foundation Newsflash
2016
Maputo
At the end of September, the Maputo Special Reserve/Tembe Elephant Park management committee conducted an aerial census to determine the status of the large herbivore species in Maputo Special Reserve, with a focus on the species that had been reintroduced. The census was made possible thanks to funding from the National Administration for Conservation Areas (ANAC) and Peace Parks Foundation. In 2006, Peace Parks Foundation and ANAC signed a cooperation agreement to develop and manage Maputo Special Reserve.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Others
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
Maputo Special Reserve
Wildlife Thriving in Maputo Special reserve, Mozambique
Community to develop ecotourist lodge in Maputo Special Reserve, Lubombo TFCA
Peace Parks Foundation Newsflash
2011
Maputo
English
No Restrictions
General
Others
Community Use of Biodiversity
Maputo Special Reserve
Community to develop ecotourist lodge in Maputo Special Reserve, Lubombo TFCA
Angola Energy Sector Needs Assessment: Mid-Long Term Vision and Needs Assessment Study
USAID
2003
N/A
USAID
Nexant, under its contract with USAID, has been assigned the task of conducting a diagnostic needs assessment of the energy sector in Angola. Energy is fundamental to the economic development of the country. Currently, the majority of the population does not have accessible, reliable supplies of energy. Moreover, as the Government of Angola (GOA) transitions from a wartime economy to peacetime economy, its capacity and resources are being severely tested as it confronts innumerable decisions and countless priorities.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Angola Energy Sector Needs Assessment: Mid-Long Term Vision and Needs Assessment Study
Community Action Plan for the Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve
ANAC
2014
N/A
The purpose of this document, the Community Action Plan (CAP), is to lay the foundation for funding for all projects that will be funded under the Community Development Facility. The projects encompass all possible projects within the Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve conservation areas that have a specific focus on improving the income and food security of the local communities as well as those that primarily promote conservation or natural resource management.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Protected Areas; Community Use of Biodiversity
Maputo Special Reserve
Community Action Plan for the Maputo Special Reserve and Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve
Taxonomic Revision of Daniellia (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae)
Estrella, M. Et al.
2010
N/A
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Daniellia (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) is a genus of ten species of medium to large trees from tropical and subtropical Africa. In contrast to earlier accounts, D. mortehanii is treated here as a synonym of D. pynaertii , and D. oblonga , which previously has been treated by some authors as a synonym of D. thurifera , is accepted. In addition, we describe as new Daniellia glandulosa . Quantitative characters such as receptacle length, petiole width, sepal length, and largest leaflet length have been used to aid species differentiation following the results of recent morphometric studies that revealed their taxonomic utility.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Taxonomic Revision of Daniellia (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae)
Plano de Gestão da Reserva Especial de Maputo, Primeira Edição
DNAC
2010
Maputo
O documento contextualiza a Reserva Especial de Maputo (REM) (ver Mapa 1) em termos da sua posição dentro da componente da Maputolândia da Área de Conservação Transfronteiriça de Lubombo (ACTFL), e oferece uma descrição estruturada da área de estudo, do local, das suas gentes e do plano. A finalidade deste plano de maneio para a REM é dar um enquadramento à reabilitação e desenvolvimento da REM, que dará orientação ao pessoal de gestão.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
PA Management Document
Protected Areas
Maputo Special Reserve
Plano de Gestão da Reserva Especial de Maputo, Primeira Edição
Framework Report on Angola’s Biodiversity
Kuedikuenda, S. & Xavier, M.
2009
N/A
Ministry of Environment
Angola’s biological diversity is one of the richest ones in Africa; this is due to various factors, whereby the main ones are: the country’s surface; geographical location; ecosystem diversity (land, marine and coastal) and the fact that Angola has been a refugee zone over the last glacial period.
English
No Restrictions
General
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Biological and Cultural Diversity
None
Framework Report on Angola’s Biodiversity
Aerial Census Report for Maputo Special Reserve 2012
Bodasing, T, & Cumbane, R.
2012
Maputo
The overall aim of this census was to determine the current status of some of the most abundant large herbivore species in Maputo Special Reserve, which could be useful in management decisions and would stand as a record of population size for future trend analyses. The locations of some of the more important species (reedbuck, elephant and hippo) were also mapped so as to gain a better understanding of their spatial distribution and habitat relations.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
PA Management Document
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments; Protected Areas
Maputo Special Reserve
Aerial Census Report for Maputo Special Reserve 2012
Dados de alguns eventos Extremos – INGC
INGC
2015
N/A
2011-2015
Portuguese
No Restrictions
General
Official Government Document
Threats to Biodiversity
None
Dados de alguns eventos Extremos – INGC
Decreto n 40/2011 de 2 de Setembro – Altera Limites da Reserva Especial de Maputo
Boletim da República
2011
Maputo
Boletim da República
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity; Other Terrestrial Biodiversity; Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Official Government Document
Protected Areas
Maputo Special Reserve
Decreto n 40/2011 de 2 de Setembro – Altera Limites da Reserva Especial de Maputo
An aggregate travel cost approach to valuing forest recreation at managed sites
Boxall, P.; McFarlane, B. & Gartell, M.
1996
N/A
THE FORESTRY CHRONICLE
Travel cost models were estimated for camping trips to designated recreation areas in the Rocky-Clearwater Forest in Alberta during 1994. Trips were aggregated by postal code and resulting trip counts from each postal code were utilized in truncated Poisson and negative binomial regressions.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
An aggregate travel cost approach to valuing forest recreation at managed sites
A Travel Cost Analysis of Nonconsumptive Wildlife-Associated Recreation in the United States
Zawacki, W.; Marsinko, A. & Bowker, J.
2000
N/A
Society of American Foresters
Increased emphasis on sustainable resource management in forestry has effectuated a demand for various nontimber values. Nonconsumptive wildlife recreation is an important nontimber service produced on forest and rangeland. Travel cost models and data from the 1991 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation are used to estimate the demand and value for nonconsumptive wildlife-associated recreation in the United States. Resulting welfare measures are shown to be sensitive to assumptions about the cost of travel time, pecuniary costs, and functional form.
English
No Restrictions
Forest Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
A Travel Cost Analysis of Nonconsumptive Wildlife-Associated Recreation in the United States
TEEB Manual for Cities: Ecosystem Services in Urban Management
TEEB
2011
N/A
TEEB
This manual outlines how cities can incorporate a focus on ecosystem services into city planning and management. By considering ecosystem services, cities have the opportunity to make some very positive changes, saving on municipal costs, boosting local economies, enhancing quality of life and securing livelihoods. The critical role that ecosystem services play in local economies is often taken for granted, and the TEEB approach can reveal the value of natural systems, highlighting opportunities and trade-offs between various policy options, planning proposals or infrastructure choices.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
TEEB Manual for Cities: Ecosystem Services in Urban Management
An inventory of fishes from the Maputo special reserve and Futi corridor, Mozambique
JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology
2001
Maputo
The Maputo Special Reserve (MSR) is at the north-eastern extremity of the Lubombo Trans Frontier Conservation Area (TFCA) and it contains varied wetlands from near-shore marine reefs, estuaries, estuarine lagoons, mangroves, saline through to freshwater lakes of varying sizes, freshwater streams, rivers and swamps. Little scientific work has been conducted in Maputaland within Mozambique which contrasts with considerable work in Lake Sibaya, Kosi Bay, Lake St Lucia and the Phongolo system, South Africa.
English
No Restrictions
Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity; Marine Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
Maputo Special Reserve; Transfrontier Conservation Areas
An inventory of fishes from the Maputo special reserve and Futi corridor, Mozambique
Parameters of Water Quality : Interpretation and Standards
Environmental Protection Agency
2001
N/A
Environmental Protection Agency
The present volume is a completely new edition of the handbook originally published by the Environmental Research Unit in early 1989. The latter, in turn, was based on a manual produced in October 1986 as the sixth in a series of publications for the Water Supply Distribution Training Programme of An Foras Forbartha. As with its predecessors, the present aim is to present in an immediately accessible, compact form all the relevant data and informative comment useful to the environmentalist faced with problems caused by a wide variety of water pollutants, and who may be called upon to take immediate remedial action.
English
No Restrictions
General
Reports, Studies, Biodiversity Baselines and Evaluations
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Parameters of Water Quality : Interpretation and Standards
Nitrogen and Salt Leaching Management on Irrigated Salt-Affected Soils in Chókwè Irrigation Scheme, Mozambique
Munguambe, P.
2007
Gaza
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences University of Pretoria
Worldwide, food production to feed the increasing population growth is still a big challenge, especially in arid and semi-arid areas of Africa where about 70% of the rural population depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Chemical and physical land degradation processes aggravate the declining crop production in these areas. Therefore, efficient use of water and nutrients is a priority to guarantee sustainable crop production and improve the rural livelihoods of poor rural farmers.
English
No Restrictions
Other Terrestrial Biodiversity
Peer-reviewed article
Identification, Monitoring, Indicators and Assessments
None
Nitrogen and Salt Leaching Management on Irrigated Salt-Affected Soils in Chókwè Irrigation Scheme, Mozambique
Descrição das Secas na Bacia do Limpopo em Moçambique
Brito, R. & Jualia, C.
2007
Gaza
Entre os riscos naturais, as secas são responsáveis por prejuízos avultados em vários sectores da actividade humana, em particular na agricultura e no sector familiar. As secas têm características específicas que as tornam bastante diferentes dos outros desastres naturais.
Portuguese
No Restrictions
Inland Waters and Wetlands Biodiversity
Project Document, Project Reports and Evaluations
Threats to Biodiversity
None
Descrição das Secas na Bacia do Limpopo em Moçambique
Economic and Environmental Benefits of Biodiversity
All ecosystems and human societies depend on a healthy and productive natural environment that contains diverse plant and animal species. The earth's biota is composed of an estimated 10 million species of plants, animals, and microbes (Pimm et al. 1995). In the United States, there are an estimated 750.000 species. of which small organisms, such as arthropods and microbes, make up 95%.' Although approximately 60% of the world's food supply comes from rice, wheat, and corn (Wilson 1988), as many as 20,000 other plant species have been used by humans as food.
English
No Restrictions
General
Peer-reviewed article
Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
None
Economic and Environmental Benefits of Biodiversity