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Pacific
Environment Information Network [PEIN] Virtual Library of Lessons Learned
and Best Practices in Environment Management
Compiled by the SPREP IRC and Library for the Pacific Environment Information
Network [PEIN].
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Lessons Learned and Guidelines for Best Practice
Climate change
Ozone
Biodiversity and nature conservation - General
Biodiversity and nature conservation - Marine
Biosafety
Invasive Species
Water
Waste disposal
Multilateral Environmental Agreements
Environmental
Impact Assessment / Strategic Environmental Assessment
Cross cutting issues
Miscellaneous
* see also More
'lessons learned' and 'best practices' documents available online from
the SPREP library catalogue
Climate change
Action on the ground: A synthesis
of activities in the areas of education,
training and awareness-raising for adaptation [UNFCCC] (2010; 2.3mb)
Adaptation
to and mitigation of climate change in the agriculture and forestry sector
- collection of best practices [SPC/GTZ] (2010; 1.17mb)
Adapting to Coastal Climate
Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners (2009; 18mb) ; Summary
(3.93mb)
Climate
change adaptation in the Pacific: lessons learned from variability and
extreme events / Eileen Shea (2004; 3.44mb)
Climate change information
for effective adaptation : a practioner's manual [GTZ] (2009; 911kb)
Climate
change mainstreaming guide and training manual [SPREP] (2010)
Climate witness:
community toolkit [WWF] (2.7mb)
Community-level adaptation
to climate change: action in the Pacific. Proceedings of a workshop on
community-level adaptation to climate change, Suva, Fiji: 21-23 March,
2005. (2005; 283kb)
Compendium on methods and tools
to evaluate impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to,
climate change [UNFCCC] (2008; 4.43mb)
Drought and extreme
tides in RMI and FSM: Lessons learned, guidelines and recommendations
[PEAC] - power point presentation (1.69mb)
Guiding
principles for climate risk management initiatives - power point presentation
(2003; 104kb)
Climate Adaptation
and Adaptation Mainstreaming: Lessons From Variability (2004; 2.04mb)
Climate literacy: the essential
principles of climate sciences: a guide for individuals and communities
[NOAA] (2009; 2.92mb)
Community Based Adaptation
exchange
CBA-X is a shared online resource designed to bring together and grow
the CBA community. It provides a site for the exchange of up-to-date information
about community-based adaptation, including news, events, case-studies,
tools, policy resources, and videos.
Community-Based Adaptation
Toolkit
The CBA Toolkit offers a practical “how-to” guide for
project teams in completing the project cycle for CBA projects. It includes
step-by-step guidance and recommended tools for all stages of the project
cycle, along with links to useful resources and checklists for key project
documents. It also includes CBA Project Standards to help ensure high
quality analysis, design, implementation and information & knowledge
management (including monitoring & evaluation) in your CBA project.
CRiSTAL: Community-based Risk Screening
Tool – Adaptation and Livelihoods
The Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation and Livelihoods
(CRiSTAL) is designed to help project planners and managers integrate
climate change adaptation into community-level projects. It helps project
designers and managers:
Understand the links between livelihoods and climate in their project
areas;
Assess a project’s impact on community-level adaptive capacity;
and
Make project adjustments to improve its impact on adaptive capacity and
reduce the vulnerability of communities to climate change.
CV&A : A guide to
Community Vulnerability and Adaptation assessment and action [SPREP]
(2006; 1.25mb)
Ethics
and methods in research for community-based adaptation: reflections from
rural Vanuatu
(2010; 125kb)
How
healthy ecosystems are helping the world’s most vulnerable adapt
to climate change.[Birdlife International] (2009; 1.94mb)
Implementing
sustainable bioenergy production: a compilation of tools and approaches
[IUCN] (2009; 4.09 mb)
Mainstreaming
processes for climate change adaptation: collection of best practices
[SPC/GTZ] (2010)
This collection of best practices looks at successful mainstreaming
efforts to provide policy makers and planners in the Pacific with ideas
and lessons learned. The examples, which come from different regions and
sectors including the Pacific, are not only illustrating adaptation to
climate change. Many examples originate from other related mainstreaming
efforts like disaster risk management or environmental mainstreaming.
Natural
Solutions: protected areas helping people cope with climate change
[IUCN] (2009; 2.78mb)
Pacific food security
toolkit: building resilience to climate change: root crop and fishery
production [USP / FAO / SPREP] (2010; 4.9mb)
http://www.sprep.org/att/irc/ecopies/pacific_region/677.pdf
Pacific
Islands: adapting to climate change [World Bank] (2002; 125kb)
Pacific Islands
Climate Change Adaptation Programme - PICCAP - power point presentation
- success stories / lessons learned (2002; 1.09mb)
Pacific Islands
Climate Change Adaptation Programme - PICCAP - power point presentation
- lessons learned (2002; 70kb)
Papua New
Guinea High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) toolkit
The key to the concept of HCVFs is the identification and maintenance
of High Conservation Values (HCVs). The FSC's definition of HCVs encompasses
exceptional or critical ecological attributes, ecosystem services and
social functions.
PEAC Review Workshop:
Lessons and recommendations - power point presentation (2003; 34kb)
Protected Areas management
Effectiveness
This website has been developed to help the conservation community
share experiences and ideas on management effectiveness, as well as provide
‘lessons learned’ from these assessments.
PSC Climate
change and extreme events: shared lessons - power point presentation
(2003; 107kb)
Resource Guide on Gender and
Climate Change [UNDP] (2009; 2.82mb)
SANDWATCH MANUAL. Adapting
to Climate Changes and Educating for Sustainable Development [Sandwatch]
(2010; 8.13mb)
Screening Tools and Guidelines
to Support the Mainstreaming of Climate Change Adaptation into Development
Assistance – A Stocktaking Report [UNDP]
Synthesis report on efforts
undertaken to assess the costs and benefits of adaptation options, and
views on lessons learned, good practices, gaps and needs [UNFCCC]
(2010; 116kb)
A Toolkit for Designing Climate
Change Adaptation Initiatives [UNDP] (2010: 852kb)
Toolkit
for Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Projects
[CARE / IISD] (2010; 1.61mb)
http://www.sprep.org/att/irc/ecopies/global/522.pdf
Ozone
Ozone handbook: Guide form
National Ozone Officers [UNEP] (2002; 1.55mb)
Biodiversity and nature conservation
- General
Advancing ecosystem-based management:
a decision support toolkit for coastal managers
- The aim of this toolkit is to guide managers and practitioners in
the use of common tools for regional planning and to illustrate through
case studies approaches to advance ecosystem-based management by jointly
addressing multiple objectives in conservation, fisheries and coastal
hazards.
Best
practice [Protected Area] guidelines [IUCN]
Biodiversity Planning: An Assessment
of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) [UNU]
(2010; 2.21mb)
The UNU-IAS project aimed to undertake a comprehensive assessment
of the preparation,
content, adequacy and effectiveness of existing NBSAPs and, in the light
of this assessment,
offer recommendations on what steps should be taken to ensure that NBSAPs
fulfil their role
as the primary mechanism for the implementation of the Convention and
the Strategic Plan
for Biodiversity 2011-2020.
Collaborating for Sustainability:A
Resource Kit for Facilitators of Participatory Natural Resource Management
in the Pacific [SPREP] (2004)
Communication,
Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) Toolkit [CBD]
The toolkit is developed by the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication
(CEC) for the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The
toolkit is meant for CBD focal points and those to whom the implementation
of a NBSAP is delegated. The toolkit offers you information to update
your knowledge and skills with fact sheets, checklists and practical examples
from all over the world.
Conserving biodiversity sustaining
livelihoods : experiences from GEF-UNDP biological diversity projects
: lessons learned [UNDP/GEF] (2006; 2.9mb)
Ecosystem Based
Management Tools [clearinghouse]
Evaluating
effectiveness: a framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected
areas [IUCN] (2006; 8.89mb)
FLOW: The
essentials of environmental flows [IUCN]
- This guide offers practical advice for the implementation of environmental
flows in the river basins of the world. It explains how to assess flow
requirements, change the legal and financial framework, and involve stakeholders
in negotiations. ‘Flow’ sets out a path from conflict over
limited water resources and environmental degradation to a water management
system that reduces poverty, ensures healthy rivers and shares water equitably.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
(GBIF) Integrated Publishing Toolkit.
- The GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) is an open source software
platform developed by the Secretariat of the Global Biodiversity Information
Facility (http://www.gbif.org/) to facilitate efficient biodiversity data
publishing to the Internet by all Participants in the GBIF network. This
Java-based tool accommodates three main data types: taxon primary occurrence
data, taxonomic checklists and resource metadata. Through the IPT, users
are able to publish data residing in local databases, upload existing
files, and access central services to make use of standardised controlled
vocabularies. You can download the IPT at the project site: http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/
manual available at: http://gbif-providertoolkit.googlecode.com/files/GBIF_IPT_User_Manual_1.0.pdf
Integrated
Wetland Assessment Toolkit : a guide to best practice [IUCN] (2009;
16mb)
- Designed for development agencies, industries and governments to
make sure they properly assess what they will lose if they drain a wetland
for development.
Integrating biodiversity conservation
and sustainable use : lessons learned from ecological networks [IUCN]
(2004) - SPREP IRC 333.95 BEN
International
Tropical Timber Association Guidelines for the conservation and sustainable
management of tropical forest resources
Lessons
in conservation for people and projects in the Pacific Islands Region
[UNDP] (2002; 759kb)
Lessons Learned from
Previous Programmes and Projects in the Pacific (2010; 442kb)
Making Protected Areas Relevant:
A guide to integrating protected areas into wider landscapes, seascapes
and sectoral plans and strategies [CBD] (2010; 1.35kb)
Mangrove management handbook
- (2000; 606kb)
Manuals
on supporting practice change from the Protected Areas sector
Micronesia
Challenge: Lessons learned
Principles, Guidelines and Other
Tools Developed under the Convention on Biological Diversity
The
protected areas benefits assessment tool: a methodology [IUCN/WWF]
(2008; 3.52mb)
Protected
Areas for the 21st Century: Lessons from UNDP/GEF's Portfolio [GEF/UNDP/CBD]
(2010; 5/7mb)
Ramsar Toolkit
Handbook for the Wise Use of Wetlands
A
Review of Lessons Learned and Best Practice in Integrated Coastal Watershed
Conservation and Management Initiatives in the Pacific Islands Region
[SPREP] (2002)
UNDP
Protected Areas guidebooks and resources to support the establishment
of Protected Areas under the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Valuing the environment in
small islands : an environmental economics toolkit (2007)
Wetlands management planning:
a guide for site managers [WWF / IUCN ] (2008; 2.77mb)
Biodiversity and nature conservation
- Marine
Case Study: The Funafuti
Conservation Area, Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu: Drawing Lessons for Future
Marine Conservation Planning and Management [ADB] (2003; 1.03mb)
Climate Ready Estuaries
Coastal Toolkit [clearinghouse]
The Climate Ready Estuaries Coastal Toolkit provides resources for
estuaries and coastal programs that are interested in learning more about
climate change impacts and adaptation. The Toolkit pages provide information
and links to websites, reports, and other resources
Coastal
Remote Sensing Toolkit: A Toolkit for Managers and Scientists Planning
to Use Remote Sensing to Map and Monitor Coastal Ecosystem Health
[Univ. of Queensland]
Designing marine protected
area networks to address the impacts of climate change (2008; 456kb)
Establishing Resilient Marine
Protected Area Networks - Making it Happen: including ecological, social
and governance considerations as well as case studies (2008; 5.36mb)
Fisheries Management
Science Programme [FMSP]: lessons learned clearinghouse
- Policy Briefs and Information sheets based on a synthesis of material
from a number of projects conducted under the Programme. They highlight
important issues for fisheries and policy, and also point to the FMSP
projects that shed light on addressing those issues.
Fully-protected
marine reserves: a guide (2000)
GEF Lessons Learned
: Knowledgebase for Lessons Learned and Best Practices in the Management
of Coral Reefs [Reefbase]
How is your MPA doing? a guidebook
of natural and social indicators for evaluating marine protected area
management effectiveness [IUCN] (2004; 3.11mb)
Implementation
of ecosystem-based management in Marine Capture Fisheries: case studies
from WWF's Marine ecoregions [WWF] (2007)
Introduction to Coral Reef
Ecosystems, Threats, and Solutions (2003; 2.48mb)
Introductory Guide to Marine
Protection on the High Seas [FIELD] (2008; 474kb)
- a basic Introductory Guide on the complex legal questions around
establishing marine protected areas on the high seas. The Guide is addressed
at non lawyers.
Learning to learn : designing monitoring plans in the Pacific Islands
International Waters Project; The cooperative framework for ocean and
coastal management in the Pacific Islands : effectiveness, constraints
and future direction ; The Pacific International waters project: aims,
approaches and challenges [SPREP IWP project]. Documents available
via request from the SPREP IRC
Lessons learned and best practices
in the management of coral reefs [GEF] (2008; 286kb)
see also GEF
Lessons Learned database
LESSONS LEARNED
FROM COMMUNITY-BASED ADAPTIVE MARINE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN SOLOMON ISLANDS
(2010; 683kb)
Locally-Managed Marine
Areas: A guide to supporting Community-Based Adaptive Management [LLMAnetwork.org]
(2008; 1.2mb) / French
version
The
Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network: Improving the practice of
marine conservation: 2005 Annual report: a focus on lessons learned
(2005; 1.15mb)
Manual
on Natural Resource-based Income Generating Activities (2001; 7.7mb)
Marine Conservation Agreements:
a practioners toolkit [TNC]
Marine
Protected Area Planning Resources
- This website provides a library of useful resources for informing
the planning and design of marine protected areas (MPAs). There are a
number of Relevant Publications relating to guidelines, methodologies
and strategies for planning MPAs both individually and as part of a network.
Toolkits provide planners and managers with a range of accessible and
complementary tools to guide MPA decision making. The Applied Planning
Tools section provides links to a number of data manipulation and systematic
conservation planning tools which may be applied to MPA design. Finally,
the Web Resources section provides links to websites that hold further
information on the development of MPAs and to applications useful for
the planning process.
Marine Protected
Area Networks in the Coral Triangle: Development and Lessons (2009;
29mb)
Marine
protected areas - Review of FGEF's cofinanced project experiences (2010)
This review sets out to share the lessons learned from experience in marine
biodiversity protection with all of the organisations involved, in order
to promote opportunities for working in synergy . Includes Coral Reefs
in the South Pacific project (CRISP)
Marine spatial planning: a step-by-step
approach toward ecosystem-based management [UNESCO] (2009; 1.54mb)
Pacific Sea Turtle
Education Kit [SPREP] (2007; 3.02mb)
People
and reefs: successes and challenges in the management of coral reef marine
protected areas [UNEP Regional Seas Report and Studies; 176] (2004;
11mb) *Includes case studies and lessons learned from the Pacific.
Preserving Reef Connectivity:
A Handbook for Marine Protected Area Managers [GEFCORAL] (2010; 3.94mb)
Aims to help managers of coastal areas, in particular those of coastal
marine protected areas (MPAs), understand and apply the concept of connectivity
in their work. Connectivity issues relate to the movement in marine environments
of water – and with it sediments, nutrients and pollutants –
and of marine organisms. This makes it an important element to consider
when contemplating the effective design of MPAs and MPA networks and most
other aspects of coastal management.
Protected areas: documents
and tools clearinghouse [CBD]
There is no shortage of tools and resources to help in the implementation
of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas, but they are often dispersed
and difficult to find in one place. This site enables you to quickly find
and browse for tools by searching each of the different goals of the Programme
of Work, searching specific topics and types of tools and resources, and
by searching by language and geography - including the Pacific
Protecting
coastal and marine environments from land-based activities: a guide for
national action [UNEP]
Reef Rehabilitation Manual
[GEFCORAL] (2010; 4.99mb)
This manual captures the learnings of worldwide research into reef rehabilitation
and seeks to reduce the proportion of reef rehabilitation projects that
fail. It provides detailed hands-on advice, based on lessons-learnt from
previous experience, on how to carry out coral reef rehabilitation in
a responsible and cost-effective manner.
Reef Manager's Guide to Coral
Bleaching (2006; 5.13mb)
Reef Manager Toolbox
[ReeBase Pacific]
- The Reef Manager ToolBox is a collection of manuals and guidebooks
that have been developed by various projects, organizations and initiatives.
These guides all aim to assist in the effective monitoring and management
of reef resources. The selection provided here, are those that have been
designed specifically for the Pacific or global resources that have proven
useful to our stakeholders in the Pacific.
Reef Resilience
Toolkit
- The Toolkit provides coral reef managers with guidance on building
resilience to climate change into the design of MPAs and daily management
activities. Check it out for updated recommendations based on new science
and lessons learned direct from coral reef - see also case studies for
Palau,
Federated
States of Micronesia and Kimbe
Bay, Papua New Guinea
Reef Restoration
Concepts and Guidelines: making sensible management choices in the face
of uncertainty. [CRISP] (2007; 2.22mb)
A Review
of Lessons Learned and Best Practice in Integrated Coastal Watershed Conservation
and Management Initiatives in the Pacific Islands Region [SPREP] (2002;
598kb)
Selected guidelines,
handbooks and 'tools' for coral reef management [NOAA - reading list]
SEM-Pasifika: Socioeconomic
monitoring guidelines for coastal managers in Pacific island countries
(2008; 15.9mb)
Socioeconomic manual for
coral reef management [GCRMN] (2000; 14.46mb)
Strengthening a nested
system of coastal management in Fiji: progress and lessons learned towards
integrated coastal management on the coral coast and implications for
national policy (2005; 800kb)
Synopsis
of information relating to marine protected areas [SPREP] (2002; 3.1mb)
- see 'lessons learned' - pp.21-22.
see also:
Marine
protection posters [FSPI]
Biosafety
AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY:
Lessons learned from case-studies on animal genetic resources: paper submitted
by the Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations [UNEP]
(2001; 144kb)
Biosafety Frameworks Addressing
the Release of Plant LMOs: a reference guide [CropLife international]
(501kb)
Capacity building for the
effective implementation of the Biosafety Protocol: experiences and lessons
learned from recent initiatives (2009; 1.44mb)
A comparative analysis of
experiences and lessons from the UNEP-GEF biosafety projects [UNEP-GEF]
(2006; 1.09mb)
Guidance towards implementation
of national biosafety frameworks: lessons learned from the UNEP demonstration
projects [UNEP](2007; 50kb)
Invasive Species
A guide to designing legal institutional
frameworks on alien invasive species [IUCN] (2000; 1.13mb)
Best Practice for the Management
of Introduced Marine Pests: a Review [GISP] (2004; 2.25mb)
Best practices
guide for crown-of-thorns clean up (2000; 895kb)
Guidelines for Development
of National Ballast Water Management Strategies [IUCN] (2010; 1.16mb)
Guidelines
for invasive species management in the Pacific : a Pacific strategy for
managing pests, weeds and other invasive species
This document lists the essential components of a comprehensive and effective
invasive species management programme. It has been compiled in consultation
with Pacific island countries and territories, to support them in developing
their invasive species work, and to guide regional and international agencies
in providing assistance to them.[SPREP] (2009; 2.87mb)
Guidelines on Biofuels and
Invasive Species [IUCN] (2009; 3.06mb)
Helping Islands Adapt:
A Workshop on Regional Action to Combat Invasive Species
on Islands to preserve biodiversity and adapt to climate change (2010;
393kb)
Invasive alien species: a toolkit
of Best Prevention and Management Practices [GISP]
(2001; 2.4mb)
Biofuel crops and the use of
non-native species: mitigating the risks of invasion [GISP] (2008;
63kb)
Lesson
learned from the Pacific Invasives Learning Network [PILN] pilot programme
see also:
Publications recommended
by the Pacific Invasives Initiative that provide useful information on
the impact and management of invasive species
more Documentation
and Advice from the Pacific Invasives learning Network [PILN]
Water
A review
of lessons learned and best practice in integrated coastal watershed conservation
and management initiatives in the Pacific Islands Region [SPREP] (2002;
585kb)
Lessons for Pacific
Islands environmental initiatives: Experiences from IWP national coordinators
(2007; 793kb)
Mobilising people
towards integrated water resource management [guidelines] [SOPAC]
(4.41mb)
Terminal
Evaluation GEF/UNDP/SPREP Strategic Action Program for the International
Waters of the Pacific Small Island Developing States [SPREP] (2007;
761kb)
Waste disposal
The application
of economic instruments to solid waste management in Pacific island countries
and territories [SPREP] (2009; 114kb)
Lessons
learned and good practices in the development of national implementation
plans for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
A
practical guide to landfill management in Pacific Island Countries : how
to improve your waste disposal facility and its operation in an economical
and effective way - vol.1: Inland-based waste disposal (2005; 1.21mb)
Rubbish is a resource:
A Waste Resource Kit for the Pacific Islands [SPREP] (2006; 875kb)
Training
Tool on the Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management
of POPs Wastes
The Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention has created an interactive
Training Tool on the Basel Convention technical guidelines on POPs wastes.
The electronic Training Tool provides information on the technical guidelines
on POPs wastes in a simple and interactive manner.
see also:
the excellent resources available from the Solid
waste management - guidelines and resources webpage
maintained by the SPREP waste team.
Multilateral Environment Agreements
Convention on Biological
Diversity: Training Modules
A set of training modules on national biodiversity strategies and action
plans, and other aspects of implementation of the Convention, is available
at: http://www.cbd.int/nbsap/guidance-tools/training-modules.shtml.
This set of training modules aims to provide CBD focal points, biodiversity
managers and other national stakeholders with an introduction to the Convention
and the role of national focal points, as well as practical guides to
the process of preparing national reports and a national biodiversity
strategy and action plan (NBSAP) and to making best use of the NBSAP once
it has been prepared.
Green Customs Guide to Multilateral
Environment Agreements [UNEP] (2008; 4.23mb)
The Green Customs Guide provides information and guidance to Customs and
other border control officers to assist in their efforts to monitor and
facilitate the legal trade and to detect and prevent the illegal trade
in environmentally sensitive commodities such as ozone depleting substances,
toxic chemicals, hazardous waste, endangered species and living modified
organisms.This Guide explains the Green Customs Initiative and provides
an overview of the relevant trade-related treaties and organisations that
are included in this Initiative. Information is provided on how trade
is regulated and the responsibilities of Customs officers in implementing
the various controls are described. Specialised terminololgy is explained
and sources of further information and assistance is provided. The Guide
is designed to be used as part of a training curriculum for customs officers
or as a stand-alone resource.
Guidance Document on Improving
National Reporting by Parties to the Basel Convention (2009; 247kb)
GUIDELINES
ON COMPLIANCE WITH AND ENFORCEMENT OF MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS
[UNEP]
Manual on compliance
with and enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements [UNEP]
Multilateral Environment Agreement:
Negotiator's Handbook [UNEP] (2007; 899kb)
Rotterdam Convention
Resource kit
The Resource Kit is a comprehensive source of information on the Rotterdam
Convention intended to assist countries in the ratification process and
in the implementation of the Convention.
see also: PROCEEDINGS
of the Regional Workshop for the Rotterdam Convention ..Part I / Part
2 (2003; 696kb/611kb)
see also:
PROCEEDINGS of
the Regional Workshop for the Rotterdam Convention ..Part I / Part
2
Stockholm
Convention Training Tool on the Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally
Sound Management of POPs Wastes
The Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention has created an interactive
Training Tool on the Basel Convention technical guidelines on POPs wastes.
The electronic Training Tool provides information on the technical guidelines
on POPs wastes in a simple and interactive manner.
UNEP
Division of Environmental Law and Conventions – publications and
guides for MEA compliance and enforcement
- see more UNEP
Guides, Manuals and Handbooks
Environmental Impact Assessment / Strategic Environmental Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental
Impact Assessment Guidelines for Mine Development and Tailings Disposal
at Tropical Coastal Mines [SPREP] (1996; 3.12mb)
Environmental
Impact Assessment of Irrigation and Drainage Projects - Guide for
consultants and planners in developing countries, from FAO. (1995)
Environmental Impact Assessment:
training Resource Manual [UNEP] ( 2002; 4.17mb)
A
guide to environmental impact assessment in the South Pacific [SPREP]
(1993; 4.01mb)
A guide to the practice
of environmental impact assessment in the South Pacific region [SPREP]
(1993; 4.77mb)
How to assess environmental
impacts on tropical islands and coastal areas: a training manual [SPREP]
(1989; 13.16mb)
Voluntary
Guidelines on Biodiversity-inclusion Impact Assessment [UNEP] (2006;
168kb)
see also EIA
Guidelines for best practice from the International Association of Impact
Assessment
see also UNEP
Environment Impact Assessment: Guides and Toolkits
see also the University of the South Pacific's Environment
Impact Assessment portal and publications
Strategic Environmental assessment
Applying Strategic Environmental
Assessment: Good Practice Guidance for Development Co-operation [OECD]
(2006; 2.28mb)
see also the Strategic
Environment Assessment Network website
see also World
Bank - Strategic Environmental Assessment Toolkit
see also:
GEO Resource book:
a training manual on integrated environmental assessment and reporting
[UNEP]
Cross cutting issues
Collaborating for Sustainability:
A Resource Kit for Facilitators of Participatory Natural Resource Management
in the Pacific [SPREP] (2004; 2.22mb)
Environmental
mainstreaming: integrating environment into development institutions and
decisions: tools and tactics for environmental mainstreaming [IIED]
Guidance on Conducting Audits
of Activities with an Environmental Perspective [WGEA] (708kb)
Integrating
environmental safeguards into Disaster Management: a field manual
[IUCN]
Volume 1:
Reference manual
Volume 2:
The disaster management cycle
National Self Capacity Assessments:
a resource kit [UNDP] ( 2004; 221kb)
National
Capacity Self-Assessments: Results and Lessons Learned for Global Environmental
Sustainability [TheGef] (2010; 1.09mb)
Media as partners in education
for sustainable development: a training and resource kit [UNESCO]
(2009; 2.38mb)
Supplementary livelihood:
options for Pacific island communities: a review of experiences [FSPI]
(2007; 370kb)
Sustainable
Development Toolbox
This toolbox contains selected tools in sustainable development planning
clustered in accordance with different stages of the strategy and integrated
development planning cycle depicted below. In principle, strategic and
integrated planning is a continuous process of developing a vision, setting
goals and objectives, identifying means to achieve them, and monitoring
the achievement as a guide to the next round of this learning process.
Two cross-cutting aspects namely Coordination and Participation are fundamental
and core elements which must be incorporated into each stage to drive
this planning cycle. see also SD
Library of best practices and case studies.
Sustainable livelilhoods
enhancement and diversification (SLED): a manual for practioners [IUCN]
(2008; 2.02mb)
see also:
Open
Training Platform - Environment
Resources and toolkits for capacity building in the environment sector.
Excellent resources site.
Miscellaneous
Guide to developing
National Action Plans : a tool for mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management
based on experiences from selected Pacific Island Countries [SOPAC]
(2009; 5.22mb)
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