Essays about: "Convention of Biological Diversity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 essays containing the words Convention of Biological Diversity.

  1. 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 energisystem

    Author : Tove Svegborn; [2024]
    Keywords : Biodiversity Management; Wind Power; Environmental Policy; Corporate Sustainability; Infrastructure Habitats; Nature Positive; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 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 Miljöförändring

    Author : Veronika Vestling; [2020]
    Keywords : biodiversity; health; Sweden; urban planning;

    Abstract : 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

  4. 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 Centre

    Author : Pieter Vullers; [2020]
    Keywords : Sustainability Transformations; Process-Ontology; Science Studies; Sociology; Critical Policy and Discourse Studies; Global Biodiversity Governance;

    Abstract : 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

  5. 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)

    Author : Maria Claesson; [2019]
    Keywords : biologisk mångfald; nationella genbanken; programmet för odlad mångfald; Pom; grönt kulturarv; kulturväxter; Rio-konventionen; gestaltning; visningsträdgård;

    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

  6. 5. Hur följer förvaltningen av Vättern principer för ekosystembaserad fiskförvaltning?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. Of Aquatic Resources

    Author : Anna Grände; [2019]
    Keywords : ekosystem-baserad fiskförvaltning; Vättern; EBFF; ekosystemansatsen i akvatiska system; ecosystem-based management;

    Abstract : En minskning av biologisk mångfald och andra naturvärden har lett till en växande förståelse för naturens komplexitet och människans begränsningar i att förutsäga förändringar i ekosystem. I ekosystemansatsen, som härstam- mar från FN:s Konvention om biologisk mångfald, förespråkas ett eko- systemperspektiv för att främja ett hållbart nyttjande av ekosystemen. READ MORE