At the 7th conference of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COP7, Kuala Lumpur, 2004) it was agreed to establish a global network of marine and coastal protected areas by 2012. The defined objectives of this MPA-network are based on the ecosystem approach: to protect biodiversity and other ecological values, and to ensure sustainable use. The (inter)national policy guide...

Purpose. The purpose of the article is systematization approaches to definition “sustainable development”, substantiation its complementary components and improving concept interpretation. Methodology research. Dialectical method scientific knowledge, general principles, provisions sustainable development are theoretical methodological basis study. Systems analysis used for disclosure basic cat...

Climate-related changes in glacierized watersheds are widely documented, stimulating adaptive responses among the 370 million people living in glacier-influenced watersheds as well as aquatic and riparian ecosystems. The situation denotes important interdependencies between science, society, and ecosystems, yet integrative approaches to the study of adaptation to such changes remain scarce in b...

in order to determine optimum landuses (in accordance with natural capability) and improve the current land management, landuse planning process was applied by using gis. within the framework of system analysis approach basic ecological and socio-economic , data were mapped. the mapped data were digitized and imported to idrisi and arc/info to build a database ,along with other descriptive data...

Since the mid-eighties, a vast literature has evolved around the concept of sustainable development. It shows a wide support for changes in policy-making and decision-making, for instance, to integrate environmental interests in national and international political processes. Remarkably, recommendations of contours and new elements of research methods and policy analysis for sustainable develop...

The importance of the economic valuation of nature is frequently propagated by arguing that more and better economic valuation will avoid the undervaluation and thereby the degradation of nature. In the approach considered 'economic', the assumptions on rationality, human interaction and the nature of the good remain unchanged although human-nature relationships need to change and biological an...

the use of gis tools is one of the newest methods for performance of different land evaluation and planning projects. this research with the purpose of determination of appropriate landuse to natural land potential and improvement of land management of catchments was executed using gis-tools in taleghan area. at first ecological and socio-economic resources determined, mapped and entered to gis...

The epizootiological and ecological conditions in Israel, as well as socio-economic and agricultural structures, have created a unique and hazardous veterinary public health (VPH) situation. The paper describes various VPH problems concerning zoonotic diseases, products of animal origin and rural ecology, and the attempts to solve them by the State Veterinary Services and Animal Health.

ABSTRACT: Historically, the agave pulquero (Agave spp.) has played an important ecological, economic, social, and cultural role in Mexico. Based on a systematic exploratory review of 125 scientific documents, four areas knowledge associated with study were identified: i) biochemistry (46,4%), ii) socioeconomics (20%), iii) studies (11,2%), iv) agroecology (22,4%). Research converges need to val...

disasters provide physical, social, political and environmental development windows of opportunities that can be used not only to reconstruct the impacted areas, but also to improve the socio-economic and physical conditions of the impacted population in the long run. it is argued, however, that there is a limited time frame of approximately four years for such opportunities to be utilized effi...