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Diagnóstico socioeconómico y ambiental del manejo de residuos sólidos domésticos en el municipio de Haina
(2011)
En República Dominicana, el municipio de Haina, es uno de los puntos más críticos y conocidos por las fuentes y niveles de contaminantes que allí se generan. Sobre la contaminación por residuos sólidos, el municipio maneja ...
Case 4: Wastewater treatment and reuse for golf course irrigation in a large beach resort in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
(2022)
Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) is the main tourist destination in the Caribbean with over 40 resorts and hotels located on the seashore. Their size varies from 300 to 2000 rooms and the water consumption of one complex ...
Applying hazard risk assessment and spatial planning tools to sargassum inundations in the Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States as a basis for improving response
(2022)
This technical report is an output of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) project 'Adapting to a new reality: managing responses to influxes of sargassum seaweed in the Eastern Caribbean' (SargAdapt), cofinanced by the ...
Caribbean corals : large-scale, long-term reef conservation
(2021)
The Caribbean is home to some of the planet’s most magnificent coral reef ecosystems. These coral habitats are essential—they harbor abundant ocean life, help protect communities from coastal flooding and erosion, and ...
Climate change and small island developing states
(2020)
Despite their heterogeneity, small island developing states (SIDS) are recognized as being particularly at risk to climate change, and, as they share numerous common traits, the United Nations recognizes them as a special ...
Land restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean : an overview of recent, ongoing and planned restoration initiatives and their potential for climate change mitigation
(2019)
Land degradation is a globally recognized problem and restoration of degraded land is currently high on the international agenda. Forest landscape restoration and other restorative ecosystem management activities are ...
What is out there? A typology of land restoration projects in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2019)
Restoring degraded lands is high on the international agenda and the number of restoration projects in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased considerably over the past decades. However, the variety of approaches ...
Global Nature Fund Annual Report 2022
(2022)
Many NGOs – also the Global Nature Fund –show with their projects that sustainable development is possible, that takes into account the limits of growth, which our planet shows us. Since the Club of Rome first reported on ...
Análisis económico de proyectos para protección costera y restauración de ecosistemas en el Gran Caribe : métodos, desafíos e innovaciones
(2020)
La población costera es una de las más vulnerables a desastres naturales. El reciente reconocimiento del papel de los ecosistemas marino-costeros para reducir su vulnerabilidad ha llevado a ejecutar inversiones directas ...
Establishing a marine conservation baseline for the insular Caribbean
(2015)
Highlights: • A single insular Caribbean protected area dataset with accurate boundary information was developed. • MPA coverage across the insular Caribbean is not far behind global reference values. • The insular Caribbean ...