William Worsley, CLA and Local Landowner delivered a presentation on the role of landowners in delivering Lawton in conjunction with AONB partnerships.
T213 walton making land work case studies in collaboration 2013laboratoridalbasso
This document discusses collaborative approaches to land management between landowners and community enterprises. It provides case studies of four examples where environmental assets in private, charitable, and public ownership were jointly managed. Interviews with the organizations identified benefits, critical success factors, and the important role of intermediary leaders. While community ownership of natural assets can be difficult, shared management approaches can provide benefits to both parties without requiring a full transfer of ownership. The document recommends supporting such partnerships through legal advice, sustainable agreements, clear organizational policies, and recognition of leadership challenges.
How Ecosystem Markets Can Transform Agriculture and Protect the Environment |...American Farmland Trust
The U.S. population is projected to double over the next 50 years. Much of that increase will be concentrated in a few dynamic regions of the country. As those regions grow, they will increasingly need to find the least costly and most effective ways to mitigate for the environmental impacts of that growth.
1) REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) aims to slow deforestation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but faces many challenges in implementation.
2) Key concerns include ensuring Indigenous rights, additional funding, addressing leakage, defining accurate baselines, and preventing promotion of monoculture plantations over biodiversity.
3) Paraguay's PES law risks compensating large landholders the most while frustrating land reform, and could incentivize conservation groups to allow destructive projects through biodiversity offsets.
Planet2025 Communities convert CO2 into things people need. Our integrated agroforestry strategy to sustainable development — the Forest Garden approach — addresses global climate change by planting trees on degraded land which create sustainable livelihoods, carbon offsets, biofuels, valuable ecosystems services, and Profits4Life™.
Fields in Trust research report "Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces"Fields in Trust
A presentation on the Fields in Trust research report "Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces" at the Valuation in Practice event Tuesday 4th December Alison McCann Fields in Trust Dr Ricky Lawton Jump X Simetrica full report at: http://www.fieldsintrust.org/revaluing
United Nations Pipe-Dream : Climate Change and Biodiversity TERRE Policy Centre
The document discusses the need for an international climate agreement and progress made at the 2014 UN Climate Summit. It summarizes that while the Kyoto Protocol failed to meaningfully reduce emissions, many new commitments were made at the summit by countries, cities, and businesses to cut emissions and increase climate financing. However, an overarching international agreement is still needed to coordinate actions and fill remaining gaps to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
The document proposes a project to establish a mechanized compost harvesting operation from dumpsites and landfills to provide livelihood opportunities for scavenger communities. It involves purchasing land currently used as a dumpsite to set up compost sifting equipment and produce compost for seedling production. This would help meet the large target of 3 million seedlings for reforestation programs while creating jobs and income streams from compost sales. However, the main challenge is acquiring the land, as local funding agencies cannot support land purchases. Outside funding is needed to purchase the property.
3 short presentations given by VSO returned volunteers at the Friends of Malawi Association (FOMA) annual general meeting on 18 September 2015, at the Malawi High Commission in London.
1. Living & Giving - Champiti, Ntcheu - David Atherton
2. Area 11 Breakfast Club - Area 11, Lilongwe - Herman Fung
3. WATERS Project - National - Regina Junio
T213 walton making land work case studies in collaboration 2013laboratoridalbasso
This document discusses collaborative approaches to land management between landowners and community enterprises. It provides case studies of four examples where environmental assets in private, charitable, and public ownership were jointly managed. Interviews with the organizations identified benefits, critical success factors, and the important role of intermediary leaders. While community ownership of natural assets can be difficult, shared management approaches can provide benefits to both parties without requiring a full transfer of ownership. The document recommends supporting such partnerships through legal advice, sustainable agreements, clear organizational policies, and recognition of leadership challenges.
How Ecosystem Markets Can Transform Agriculture and Protect the Environment |...American Farmland Trust
The U.S. population is projected to double over the next 50 years. Much of that increase will be concentrated in a few dynamic regions of the country. As those regions grow, they will increasingly need to find the least costly and most effective ways to mitigate for the environmental impacts of that growth.
1) REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) aims to slow deforestation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but faces many challenges in implementation.
2) Key concerns include ensuring Indigenous rights, additional funding, addressing leakage, defining accurate baselines, and preventing promotion of monoculture plantations over biodiversity.
3) Paraguay's PES law risks compensating large landholders the most while frustrating land reform, and could incentivize conservation groups to allow destructive projects through biodiversity offsets.
Planet2025 Communities convert CO2 into things people need. Our integrated agroforestry strategy to sustainable development — the Forest Garden approach — addresses global climate change by planting trees on degraded land which create sustainable livelihoods, carbon offsets, biofuels, valuable ecosystems services, and Profits4Life™.
Fields in Trust research report "Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces"Fields in Trust
A presentation on the Fields in Trust research report "Revaluing Parks and Green Spaces" at the Valuation in Practice event Tuesday 4th December Alison McCann Fields in Trust Dr Ricky Lawton Jump X Simetrica full report at: http://www.fieldsintrust.org/revaluing
United Nations Pipe-Dream : Climate Change and Biodiversity TERRE Policy Centre
The document discusses the need for an international climate agreement and progress made at the 2014 UN Climate Summit. It summarizes that while the Kyoto Protocol failed to meaningfully reduce emissions, many new commitments were made at the summit by countries, cities, and businesses to cut emissions and increase climate financing. However, an overarching international agreement is still needed to coordinate actions and fill remaining gaps to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
The document proposes a project to establish a mechanized compost harvesting operation from dumpsites and landfills to provide livelihood opportunities for scavenger communities. It involves purchasing land currently used as a dumpsite to set up compost sifting equipment and produce compost for seedling production. This would help meet the large target of 3 million seedlings for reforestation programs while creating jobs and income streams from compost sales. However, the main challenge is acquiring the land, as local funding agencies cannot support land purchases. Outside funding is needed to purchase the property.
3 short presentations given by VSO returned volunteers at the Friends of Malawi Association (FOMA) annual general meeting on 18 September 2015, at the Malawi High Commission in London.
1. Living & Giving - Champiti, Ntcheu - David Atherton
2. Area 11 Breakfast Club - Area 11, Lilongwe - Herman Fung
3. WATERS Project - National - Regina Junio
The Natural Resilience Fund (NRF) was created to provide funding for climate resilience projects in New York, especially in New York City. The founder, Eric Kaufman, was inspired to create the NRF after studying climate resilience and realizing the significant need for funding to adapt to climate change effects. The NRF seeks to raise funds through tax credits for individuals and groups contributing to approved resilience projects. It aims to fill funding gaps identified by government plans and fund up to 10% of eligible project costs through private sector grants. The NRF estimates it could raise $71 million annually with a 1.5% participation rate from New York taxpayers, or $1 billion annually with contributions from 100,000 taxpayers. Funds would
The document discusses the concept of ecoagriculture, which aims to enhance rural livelihoods and sustainable food production while also conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. It outlines the vision and mission of Ecoagriculture Partners, which is to scale up ecoagriculture approaches worldwide by catalyzing strategic connections and dialogue among stakeholders. Some of the strategic goals are to understand ecoagriculture through documentation and analysis, build capacity of innovators, and achieve policy changes that advance ecoagriculture. Challenges discussed include designing carbon projects that benefit local knowledge and leverage sustainable production systems.
Accelerating Climate Initiatives: Building the business case for Nature-based...Cesar Henrique Arrais
This document discusses accelerating climate initiatives through nature-based solutions. It highlights how nature-based solutions can provide environmental and social benefits while enhancing sustainability. Examples are given such as mangrove belt recovery for coastal protection and coral rehabilitation for wave mitigation. The overall goal is to build the business case for investing in nature-based approaches to address climate change challenges like mitigation, adaptation, resilience, and risk reduction.
This document discusses the role and relevance of the polluter-pays principle (PPP) in implementing the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the agricultural sector. It notes that agriculture is a major cause of diffuse water pollution across Europe. The PPP is a guiding principle of the WFD, but its application to agriculture depends on whether agricultural activities are considered water services or water uses. The traditional view treats meeting standards of "good farming practice" as satisfying the PPP, but the WFD may require redefining these standards and allocating more costs to agriculture. Further discussion is needed on adapting practices, determining the financial burden on the sector, and developing financing mechanisms to achieve WFD objectives
This document discusses several protected landscapes in the UK, including Shrewsbury and the River Severn, the Broads in Norfolk, and the Norfolk coast. It notes that protected landscapes are internationally recognised, locally driven, and nationally important, with their future conservation in the hands of local communities and stakeholders.
08 - NAAONB Conference 2012 - Gary Smith, Yorkshire Dales National Park Autho...NAAONB landscapesforlife
Gary Smith, Director of Conservation and Community, Yorkshire Dales NPA delivered a presentation outlining the background to the NUC LNP and the rationale behind developing an LNP across 2 AONBs and 2 National Parks, including the LNP's development as a direct response to Lawton.
The annual review discusses supporting policies for conserving and enhancing natural beauty in areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs), developing an understanding of the issues facing AONBs, improving partnerships between AONB organizations and the National Association for AONBs (NAAONB), and securing and managing resources for these purposes.
07 - NAAONB Conference 2012 - Chris Woodley-Stewart, NAAONB and North Pennine...NAAONB landscapesforlife
Chris Woodley-Stewart, NAAONB Vice Chairman and North Penines AONB Partnership delivered a presentation on LNPs, NIAs and Landscape-scale work in AONBs
The document discusses "Living Landscapes" and is authored by Rob Stoneman from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. It mentions "More, bigger, better and joined" which seems to refer to creating more wildlife habitats that are larger in size, higher quality, and better connected to one another. Steve Waterhouse is also briefly referenced in relation to Living Landscapes.
The natural choice securing the value of natureDr Lendy Spires
This document summarizes a white paper on securing the value of nature in England. It discusses how the UK National Ecosystem Assessment showed over 30% of natural environment benefits are declining. To address this, the white paper proposes an ambitious, integrated approach to create an ecological network across England. It establishes a framework including Local Nature Partnerships and Nature Improvement Areas to strengthen local action and reconnect nature on a large scale. The white paper aims to put natural capital at the heart of decision making and create a green economy where economic growth and environmental health support each other.
The natural choice securing the value of natureDr Lendy Spires
This document summarizes a white paper on securing the value of nature in England. It discusses how the UK National Ecosystem Assessment showed over 30% of natural environment benefits are declining. To address this, the white paper proposes an ambitious approach to create an ecological network across England through local partnerships and nature improvement areas. It aims to move from net biodiversity loss to net gain and establish a framework to support the recovery of nature.
The document discusses several issues related to desertification, land degradation, and drought. It argues that globalization has led to the death of small-scale agriculture and local autonomy. It also criticizes state land reforms, poor governance, and the influence of multinational corporations over food. The document calls for redefining concepts like "development" and prioritizing community-driven approaches over national priorities. It stresses the importance of traditional knowledge and local participation in combating land issues. Governments should support local action, return control of natural resources to indigenous groups, and require strict environmental assessments of new technologies.
The document discusses the covenant approach used in the Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP2) for reforestation and agroforestry. The covenant approach recognizes indigenous communities as managers of watersheds, and engages them through covenants rather than contracts. Covenants are commitments driven by indigenous systems that bind communities long-term to natural resource management. Over 10,000 hectares across 148 barangays have been reforested and placed under community management through this approach. Indigenous practices like the Sapata ritual are incorporated to strengthen community commitment to conservation.
Here is a 250-word essay on the topic:
The world's oceans provide immense benefits but face serious threats if not properly managed. Major problems encountered in managing marine resources include overfishing, pollution, and climate change impacts.
Overfishing has depleted fish stocks around the globe. Decades of unsustainable fishing practices have pushed some commercially valuable species to the brink of extinction. If left unaddressed, overfishing could seriously undermine food security for coastal communities and damage marine ecosystems. International cooperation on setting sustainable catch limits and regulating fishing fleets is needed.
Pollution from multiple sources also endangers the oceans. Plastic waste has become a pervasive and persistent pollutant, harming wildlife through ingestion and
Pros and cons of community based natural resource management.Dr. Pauline Gitonga
This document summarizes key principles of successful community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) projects based on case studies from several countries in Africa. It finds that CBNRM projects are most likely to succeed when they (1) involve local communities in decision-making and provide direct economic benefits, (2) establish clear incentives for sustainable resource management, and (3) recognize traditional community structures and communal ownership of resources. The document analyzes examples of successful CBNRM projects in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Namibia that demonstrate these principles. It also examines some cases of CBNRM projects that failed due to a lack of clear benefits, leadership issues, or not incorporating local social norms.
This document discusses tenure security and co-management in community forestry, using examples from the Philippines. It makes three key points:
1. Traditional tenure systems provided long-term management of forest resources by communities, but increasing pressures have weakened these systems. Re-establishing tenure security through instruments like co-management can empower communities to restore sustainable practices.
2. Co-management involves stakeholders like communities and government agencies partnering in substantial involvement in management. It requires defining partnership roles and can help address conflicts over resource use.
3. Elements to consider in co-management agreements include the area boundaries, resource uses, stakeholders, management responsibilities, benefits, priorities, plans, conflict resolution processes, enforcement, and
Hunting and conservation at the Greater Balepye Nature ReserveIIED
A presentation on hunting and conservation at the Greater Balepye Nature Reserve given by the chief admin officer of Balepye CPA/Secretariat, Prince Dipati Maenetja.
The presentation was given at the Community Voices: Local Perspectives on International Responses to Illegal Wildlife Trade on Wednesday, 10 October 2018 at the Zoological Society of London.
More details: https://www.iied.org/CommunityVoices
Also, learn more about the new “People not poaching” online platform that supports communities as the first line of defence against illegal wildlife trade: https://peoplenotpoaching.org
Creating landscapes with healthy, functioning
ecosystems is not only key to making progress towards
the environmental targets embedded in the Sustainable
Development Goals, but also to addressing multiple
social and economic targets that depend partly or wholly
on the benefits that ecosystems provide to people.
The Natural Resilience Fund (NRF) was created to provide funding for climate resilience projects in New York, especially in New York City. The founder, Eric Kaufman, was inspired to create the NRF after studying climate resilience and realizing the significant need for funding to adapt to climate change effects. The NRF seeks to raise funds through tax credits for individuals and groups contributing to approved resilience projects. It aims to fill funding gaps identified by government plans and fund up to 10% of eligible project costs through private sector grants. The NRF estimates it could raise $71 million annually with a 1.5% participation rate from New York taxpayers, or $1 billion annually with contributions from 100,000 taxpayers. Funds would
The document discusses the concept of ecoagriculture, which aims to enhance rural livelihoods and sustainable food production while also conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. It outlines the vision and mission of Ecoagriculture Partners, which is to scale up ecoagriculture approaches worldwide by catalyzing strategic connections and dialogue among stakeholders. Some of the strategic goals are to understand ecoagriculture through documentation and analysis, build capacity of innovators, and achieve policy changes that advance ecoagriculture. Challenges discussed include designing carbon projects that benefit local knowledge and leverage sustainable production systems.
Accelerating Climate Initiatives: Building the business case for Nature-based...Cesar Henrique Arrais
This document discusses accelerating climate initiatives through nature-based solutions. It highlights how nature-based solutions can provide environmental and social benefits while enhancing sustainability. Examples are given such as mangrove belt recovery for coastal protection and coral rehabilitation for wave mitigation. The overall goal is to build the business case for investing in nature-based approaches to address climate change challenges like mitigation, adaptation, resilience, and risk reduction.
This document discusses the role and relevance of the polluter-pays principle (PPP) in implementing the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the agricultural sector. It notes that agriculture is a major cause of diffuse water pollution across Europe. The PPP is a guiding principle of the WFD, but its application to agriculture depends on whether agricultural activities are considered water services or water uses. The traditional view treats meeting standards of "good farming practice" as satisfying the PPP, but the WFD may require redefining these standards and allocating more costs to agriculture. Further discussion is needed on adapting practices, determining the financial burden on the sector, and developing financing mechanisms to achieve WFD objectives
This document discusses several protected landscapes in the UK, including Shrewsbury and the River Severn, the Broads in Norfolk, and the Norfolk coast. It notes that protected landscapes are internationally recognised, locally driven, and nationally important, with their future conservation in the hands of local communities and stakeholders.
08 - NAAONB Conference 2012 - Gary Smith, Yorkshire Dales National Park Autho...NAAONB landscapesforlife
Gary Smith, Director of Conservation and Community, Yorkshire Dales NPA delivered a presentation outlining the background to the NUC LNP and the rationale behind developing an LNP across 2 AONBs and 2 National Parks, including the LNP's development as a direct response to Lawton.
The annual review discusses supporting policies for conserving and enhancing natural beauty in areas of outstanding natural beauty (AONBs), developing an understanding of the issues facing AONBs, improving partnerships between AONB organizations and the National Association for AONBs (NAAONB), and securing and managing resources for these purposes.
07 - NAAONB Conference 2012 - Chris Woodley-Stewart, NAAONB and North Pennine...NAAONB landscapesforlife
Chris Woodley-Stewart, NAAONB Vice Chairman and North Penines AONB Partnership delivered a presentation on LNPs, NIAs and Landscape-scale work in AONBs
The document discusses "Living Landscapes" and is authored by Rob Stoneman from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. It mentions "More, bigger, better and joined" which seems to refer to creating more wildlife habitats that are larger in size, higher quality, and better connected to one another. Steve Waterhouse is also briefly referenced in relation to Living Landscapes.
The natural choice securing the value of natureDr Lendy Spires
This document summarizes a white paper on securing the value of nature in England. It discusses how the UK National Ecosystem Assessment showed over 30% of natural environment benefits are declining. To address this, the white paper proposes an ambitious, integrated approach to create an ecological network across England. It establishes a framework including Local Nature Partnerships and Nature Improvement Areas to strengthen local action and reconnect nature on a large scale. The white paper aims to put natural capital at the heart of decision making and create a green economy where economic growth and environmental health support each other.
The natural choice securing the value of natureDr Lendy Spires
This document summarizes a white paper on securing the value of nature in England. It discusses how the UK National Ecosystem Assessment showed over 30% of natural environment benefits are declining. To address this, the white paper proposes an ambitious approach to create an ecological network across England through local partnerships and nature improvement areas. It aims to move from net biodiversity loss to net gain and establish a framework to support the recovery of nature.
The document discusses several issues related to desertification, land degradation, and drought. It argues that globalization has led to the death of small-scale agriculture and local autonomy. It also criticizes state land reforms, poor governance, and the influence of multinational corporations over food. The document calls for redefining concepts like "development" and prioritizing community-driven approaches over national priorities. It stresses the importance of traditional knowledge and local participation in combating land issues. Governments should support local action, return control of natural resources to indigenous groups, and require strict environmental assessments of new technologies.
The document discusses the covenant approach used in the Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resource Management Project (CHARMP2) for reforestation and agroforestry. The covenant approach recognizes indigenous communities as managers of watersheds, and engages them through covenants rather than contracts. Covenants are commitments driven by indigenous systems that bind communities long-term to natural resource management. Over 10,000 hectares across 148 barangays have been reforested and placed under community management through this approach. Indigenous practices like the Sapata ritual are incorporated to strengthen community commitment to conservation.
Here is a 250-word essay on the topic:
The world's oceans provide immense benefits but face serious threats if not properly managed. Major problems encountered in managing marine resources include overfishing, pollution, and climate change impacts.
Overfishing has depleted fish stocks around the globe. Decades of unsustainable fishing practices have pushed some commercially valuable species to the brink of extinction. If left unaddressed, overfishing could seriously undermine food security for coastal communities and damage marine ecosystems. International cooperation on setting sustainable catch limits and regulating fishing fleets is needed.
Pollution from multiple sources also endangers the oceans. Plastic waste has become a pervasive and persistent pollutant, harming wildlife through ingestion and
Pros and cons of community based natural resource management.Dr. Pauline Gitonga
This document summarizes key principles of successful community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) projects based on case studies from several countries in Africa. It finds that CBNRM projects are most likely to succeed when they (1) involve local communities in decision-making and provide direct economic benefits, (2) establish clear incentives for sustainable resource management, and (3) recognize traditional community structures and communal ownership of resources. The document analyzes examples of successful CBNRM projects in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Namibia that demonstrate these principles. It also examines some cases of CBNRM projects that failed due to a lack of clear benefits, leadership issues, or not incorporating local social norms.
This document discusses tenure security and co-management in community forestry, using examples from the Philippines. It makes three key points:
1. Traditional tenure systems provided long-term management of forest resources by communities, but increasing pressures have weakened these systems. Re-establishing tenure security through instruments like co-management can empower communities to restore sustainable practices.
2. Co-management involves stakeholders like communities and government agencies partnering in substantial involvement in management. It requires defining partnership roles and can help address conflicts over resource use.
3. Elements to consider in co-management agreements include the area boundaries, resource uses, stakeholders, management responsibilities, benefits, priorities, plans, conflict resolution processes, enforcement, and
Hunting and conservation at the Greater Balepye Nature ReserveIIED
A presentation on hunting and conservation at the Greater Balepye Nature Reserve given by the chief admin officer of Balepye CPA/Secretariat, Prince Dipati Maenetja.
The presentation was given at the Community Voices: Local Perspectives on International Responses to Illegal Wildlife Trade on Wednesday, 10 October 2018 at the Zoological Society of London.
More details: https://www.iied.org/CommunityVoices
Also, learn more about the new “People not poaching” online platform that supports communities as the first line of defence against illegal wildlife trade: https://peoplenotpoaching.org
Creating landscapes with healthy, functioning
ecosystems is not only key to making progress towards
the environmental targets embedded in the Sustainable
Development Goals, but also to addressing multiple
social and economic targets that depend partly or wholly
on the benefits that ecosystems provide to people.
Environmental management refers to a systematic approach to reducing negative environmental impacts and conserving resources like water, energy, and materials. Achieving national sustainable development goals through environmental management strategies can be difficult for several reasons. First, there is a lack of education and awareness about sustainability issues among the general public in many countries. Second, developing countries often face financial constraints that limit their ability to plan and implement sustainable practices. Third, corruption can reduce funds for sustainability projects. Achieving truly sustainable development requires strategies that consider many interconnected factors, are adaptable to changes, and have some redundancy to withstand disruptions.
This document summarizes barriers that indigenous communities in Cape York Peninsula, Australia face in participating in Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) markets. It argues that the current environmental management framework delivers suboptimal outcomes and constrains indigenous economic development. Insufficient funding and lack of indigenous involvement have led to increased environmental risks. Multiple layers of environmental legislation greatly restrict indigenous land use without improving outcomes. Weak indigenous land and property rights also limit PES participation. A new approach is needed that recognizes local conditions and history, reconciles development and conservation, and enables indigenous communities to benefit from environmental stewardship of their lands through PES market participation.
This document provides a framework for developing urban agriculture land use policies and discusses key considerations for communities. It defines different types of urban agriculture and explains how land use is regulated through comprehensive planning and zoning laws. When creating policy, communities should consider what forms of urban agriculture to allow, where to allow them, whether to permit them as-of-right or conditionally, and what operating standards to establish. This will help integrate urban agriculture while addressing potential impacts on surrounding areas. The document provides model language that can be tailored to local needs.
This proposal suggests mainstreaming the National Greening Program (NGP) into the Provincial Greening Program (PGP) in Southern Leyte, Philippines. It proposes establishing 150 community school tree nurseries that would produce 3 million coffee and cacao seedlings per year. This would generate an estimated PHP 1.05 million in annual income for farmers after 3-5 years and PHP 525 million annually thereafter. It would provide livelihoods for communities involved in composting, bamboo and nipa production for the nurseries. The goal is to empower schools through community-shared agriculture and environmental education while alleviating poverty and building climate resilience.
The document discusses Houston's efforts to increase infrastructure capacity while reducing environmental impacts related to population growth. It outlines strategies for optimizing existing water and electricity systems, including improving efficiency of drinking water and wastewater operations, utilizing solar and high-efficiency technologies, and developing commercial energy conservation codes. The city aims to sustainably meet growth needs through planning, conservation, repair and partnership with the community.
The document summarizes social forestry programs in the Philippines. It discusses that approximately 70% of Philippines land was originally forested but declined to 26% today. The government introduced community-based forest management to improve sustainability. The national strategy is community-based forest management (CBFM) which involves local communities in forestry. CBFM is administered by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and aims to address poverty and deforestation. The document outlines the scope of social forestry programs including farm forestry, agroforestry, community forestry and extension forestry. It also discusses accomplishments, problems, and constraints of social forestry programs in the Philippines.
The document discusses politics and protected landscapes in Wales. It outlines the new Welsh government's commitment to an ecosystem approach and establishing a Natural Environment Framework. It also discusses potential scenarios for the future, including greater centralization versus localization and the role of economic valuation versus spatial planning.
Half + half 1000 acre community forestJohn Kaganga
Half + Half 1000 Acre Community Forest Project similar to Analog Forestry (a system which seeks Analog ecosystem with architectural structures and ecological functions similar to original climax or sub climax vegetation), is an innovation based on small holder farmers initiatives to conserve and restore small forest patches ranging from ¼ Acre to 2 Acre per household / farmer or leaving a piece of land to regenerate naturally into a forest by its own.
India is a functioning anarchy. While most of the world works systematically, we Indians neither implement nor follow systems. The tragedy of commons is a huge problem all over the world. It is deeply rooted in every part of Indian society and is one of the most intractable problems.
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This document provides an induction for new staff, committee members, and volunteers on Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) in the UK. It begins with an overview of AONBs, noting that there are 46 across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland protecting some of Britain's finest countryside. It then discusses what AONBs are, their purpose of conserving and enhancing natural beauty, and the work of AONB partnerships. The document provides historical context on AONBs and their legal basis, as well as information on AONB management, planning and development, nature recovery efforts, AONB teams, and diversity and inclusivity.
The document announces the Landscapes for Life Conference held from July 24-26, 2018 at the University of Kent in Canterbury. It provides details on the conference website and hashtag for social media updates. It also announces that the Wye Valley River Festival won the Bowland Award. The document concludes by inviting attendees to the 2019 conference from July 9-11 at the University of Essex, hosted by the Suffolk Coast and Heaths and Dedham Vale Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
L4L2018 - Emeritus Professor Allan Buckwell, Institute for European Environme...NAAONB landscapesforlife
The document discusses the potential effects of Brexit on UK agriculture and landscapes over the coming years. It outlines different Brexit scenarios from a hard Brexit with no deal to a soft Brexit with close EU ties. Economic analyses have found that introducing trade friction through tariffs or regulatory divergence could damage export-reliant UK farm sectors and raise food prices. The impacts would depend on future trade and agricultural support policies. Protected landscapes like national parks may be more vulnerable due to their reliance on grazing livestock and EU supports. The consequences for farming and landscapes remain uncertain as negotiations continue.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
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Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
2. The role of landowners in
delivering Lawton in
conjunction with AONB
partnerships
William Worsley
3. Change in the environment is not
new, and is not the issue. What
is new and of great concern is
the pace and scale of the
changes that modern society
now places on the environment
4. This will require strong leadership
from government, but is not a job for
government alone.
5. It will require effective and positive engagement
with the landowners and land managers.
And it will need improved collaboration between
local authorities, local communities, statutory
agencies, the voluntary and private sectors,
farmers, other land-managers and individual
citizens.
6. In recent times, management of land has
often focused on the delivery of a single
process or ecosystem service – food, for
example, or timber.
7. As human impact on the environment
increases, we will need to learn how to
manage land (and water) to deliver multiple
services from a given area so that, for
example, we achieve profitable and
productive farming whilst at the same time
adopting practices which enhance carbon
storage and slow the flow of flood waters and
support wildlife.
8. It is obvious that statutory agencies with responsibility for the
environment, and the voluntary conservation sector will both play a
key role in delivering our vision.
Just as important, however, is the role of private landowners, land
managers and farmers, many of whom invest resources in
enhancing wildlife over and beyond the funding they receive through
incentive schemes.
It is therefore important to engage effectively and positively with this
sector. Our vision will only be achieved if society recognises the
realities of managing the land and the true costs involved.
If we decide as a society what we want, and put the right incentives
in place, then the private land sector will provide many of the
solutions.
9. Private land has enormous potential to deliver
many of the enhancements to the network that are
needed. Just as landowners can play an important
role as effective stewards of existing wildlife
habitats, we believe that they should also be
properly rewarded to do more to create new
habitats.
10. This is a long-term commitment. Extending existing tax
incentives to encourage the creation, improvement and
long-term maintenance of wildlife habitats out of private
resources would, we believe, be justified by the resulting
environmental and social benefits.
Landowners could be encouraged to respond to the
challenge by the promise of reliefs from capital taxation no
more generous than those that farmers and the owners of
family businesses have been routinely allowed for many
years. Income tax incentives might also play a useful part.
11. Lawton Report - Recommendation 20. Government
should consider extending tax incentives to
encourage landowners to make long-term
commitments to the creation of new wildlife habitats
that benefit ecological networks.
12. AONB - With their origins in the 1949 National
Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, AONBs
are designated primarily to conserve and enhance
the natural beauty of the landscape. They also have
two secondary aims: to meet the need for quiet
enjoyment of the countryside and to have regard for
the interests of those who live and work within them.
11.8% of the area of AONBs is also SSSI
13. Key messages
1. The value of looking at environmental land
management on a landscape scale and the important
role that estates play in this, as they have large areas
of land under the management control of one owner
2. The importance of understanding the realities of
managing the land and the true costs involved
3. Work with landowners and encourage, help and
support them – the value of AONBs as facilitators