[PDF] Top 20 LIFE. Nature & biodiversity projects 2007

... the biodiversity of these ecosystems and their adverse impact will continue to increase unless effec- tive eradication and control methods are ...the biodiversity of the lake including many of the Annex I ... See full document

... and nature conservation projects through- out the EU, as well as in some candidate, acceding and neighbouring ...1992, LIFE has co-financed some 2,500 projects, contributing € 1,500 million to ... See full document

... regarding nature conservation, biodiversity continues to ...conservation projects. We investigated the motivations underlying these biodiversity actors using the ranking of cards and compared ... See full document

... of biodiversity compensation are at particular risk of not abiding by additionality ...as biodiversity banks, risk eroding additionality requirements as restoration actions that would have been done outside ... See full document

... Salt-affected soils started to form in the Hortobágy area of Hungary in the Pleistocene era, as mineral-rich sediments were deposited by two rivers. Later, the area was cut off by the river Tisza and prolonged dry ... See full document

... the Biodiversity Action Plan with a focus on the conservation of biodiversity at ...preserving biodiversity have been so far the main contributions of biodiversity ...24 projects have ... See full document

... that biodiversity considerations are integrated into urban planning, urban develop- ment and management of urban natural ...of biodiversity, but also for the mitiga- tion of negative impacts of climate ... See full document

... Kõpu Peninsula, on the westernmost tip of Hiiumaa Island in Estonia, boasts a complex and highly diverse range of habitat types in a relatively small area, making it a biodiversity hotspot. It has no less than 23 ... See full document

... In this way, these internal or individually held norms can be said to be similar to values. Both are important as causes of behaviour, and therefore fit within a critical realist approach (Klein, 2004); norms and values ... See full document

... The brown bear sub-population and habitat are suf- fering from severe pressure, degradation and disrup- tion related to the construction of a 72 km stretch of motorway: five bears have died within six months of the ... See full document

... Good water management is necessary for human de- velopment to be sustainable: factors affecting rivers have led to the disappearance or decline of important species and to a loss of biodiversity. Water manage- ... See full document

... their LIFE project on the conservation of priority habitats in Valencia, Spain and follows on from an international workshop held in October 2001 involving experts from Germany, Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and ... See full document

... In 28 years of existence, besides various technical publications and productions, 200 Master Dissertations and 145 PhD Thesis have been defended, numbers that attest the success of the Program. Currently, 26 professors ... See full document

... in biodiversity through conservation of rare and endangered habitats, the provision of biophysical maps of ecosystem services at the national level is regarded as a crucial step in setting new targets for ... See full document

... Mapmate is perceived by statutory conservation institutions to be somewhat limited in potential, given that it is largely used within closed circuits of naturalists managing small data sets. Indeed, until recently, for a ... See full document

... Some projects, which included sampling and analysis of sediments, waters and fish, human hair and urine to detect mercury levels, have been ...illegal nature of the activities and the financially and ... See full document

... previous LIFE-funded innovations under- taken to ceramic production, the project intends to complete the sustainability cycle of the manufacturing processes by solving the increasing problem of waste production ... See full document

... The shift from traditional forms of farming and grazing to "modernised" forms that are intensive and heavily industrialised, and the disappearance in parallel to this of farming in large spaces, have created ... See full document

... 105 projects were selected in ...by LIFE-Environment strand of the LIFE programme will cover approximately 33% of the project ...29 projects in this area (26% of projects ...18 ... See full document

... with nature. The equilibrium among life forms, rising human population and nature has been ...of nature to his benefit. Consequentially the graph of quality of life has gone down ... See full document