Essays about: "the Convention on Biological Diversity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 essays containing the words the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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1. Biodiversity Management in the Wind Power Industry - Examining Regulations, Incentives, and Corporate Practices Influencing Swedish Wind Power Companies
University essay from Lunds universitet/Miljö- och energisystemAbstract : The world is transitioning towards a renewable energy system to combat climate change and the wind power industry plays a key role in this shift. However, with the expansion of wind power concerns about its impact on local biodiversity have been raised. READ MORE
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2. Biodiversity in urban planning and its relation to health : A study about how the five largest municipalities in Sweden portray biodiversity and its relation to health
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema MiljöförändringAbstract : Biodiversity has shown to have various positive effects on our health and wellbeing. High diversity in species has for example been shown to reduce stress as well as lower the risk for emerging infectious diseases. READ MORE
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3. Nature as a Political Enactment Within the Global Biodiversity Debate and a Plea for a Process-Inspired Transition Governance
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience CentreAbstract : A revolution is brewing within global biodiversity governance as attempts to govern and to deal with biodiversity loss have not led to any substantial results. The underlying drivers of biodiversity loss keep adding to the total ecological predicament which in turn sets in motion an epistemological paradigm shift (episteme) with a call for transformative change. READ MORE
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4. Trädgårdsmästarbostaden : gestaltning av en visningsträdgård med växter från Nationella genbankens samlingar
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)Abstract : Older cultural plants that has been gathered within the framework of the Program for cultivated diversity (Pom), are preserved in the Swedish National genebank for vegetatively propagated horticultural crops. Pom is a result of the Rio-convention that in 1992 lead to the Swedish Riksdag taking a strategic decision. READ MORE
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5. Exploring an emerging land use conflict: GIS based site selection for expanding forests in Denmark
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : The predominant land use in Denmark is agriculture, which has had negative effects on the aquatic environment, bothmarine and freshwater, due to excess nutrient runoff and resulting eutrophication. The current condition does not fullfillthe European Water Framework Directive’s goal of ‘Good ecological condition’ in all aquatic environments. READ MORE