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    <title>S.A.P.I.EN.S</title>
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    <description>A multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of interactions between environment and society</description>        
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    <title>Call for Papers on City Resilience</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Guest editors: </strong>Damien SERRE (Paris-Est University), Bruno BARROCA (Paris-Est University), Eric DUCHEMIN ([VertigO]/UQAM).</p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;"><em><strong>SA.P.I.EN.S</strong></em> is accepting articles for a special issue on “Resilient Cities” which will primarily publish review articles covering the various aspects of urban resilience. Suitable topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to:</p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">Risk and vulnerability assessment methods</p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">Resilient infrastructures indicators</p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">Resilience planning and policy making</p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">Assessment of impacts and costs</p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">Social resilience</p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">Governance for resilience</p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">Financing resilience </p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">Integrated cost assessment</p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">Resilient urban infrastructures (water supply, energy supply, solid waste management, transport)</p>
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          <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0.0cm; margin-right:0.0cm; text-indent:0.0cm;">etc.</p>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;">Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. Please consult our <a href="http://sapiens.revues.org/739"><span style="color:#0000ff; text-decoration:underline;">Instructions for authors</span></a> for detailed style and content guidelines. Authors who are uncertain about the...</p>]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2013-02-20</dc:date>
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    <title>Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation: a way out of the deadlock?</title>
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      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">The rural poor often depend on biodiversity for a wide range of natural resources and ecosystem services essential for their well-being, and are therefore potentially affected by its degradation. Against this backdrop, conservationists, development practitioners and policy makers often have differing opinions on how—and whether—to link biodiversity conservation with poverty reduction. Nonetheless, the growing volume of literature on the subject often results in platitudes that fail to confront real problems faced by development projects, plans and policies. Indeed, the linkages between biodiversity and poverty are much more complex and dynamic that often assumed; this is why endeavours to address the real issues—rather than pretending they do not exist—as well as efforts to be more specific about definitions, contexts and activities when undertaking assessments, are so badly needed. </p>
      <p class="abstract" dir="ltr">As a result, this paper first synthesises the biodiversity-poverty debate in a static perspective by ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Raphaël Billé</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Renaud Lapeyre</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Romain Pirard</dc:creator>
    <link>http://sapiens.revues.org/1452</link>
    <dc:date>2012-11-06</dc:date>
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    <title>Applying Ecosystem Services Approaches for Biodiversity Conservation: Benefits and Challenges</title>
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      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading1">Introduction</h1>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Although scholars have long recognised the role functioning ecosystems play in maintaining biodiversity and human societies (Myers, 1983; De Groot, 1992; Daily, 1997; Costanza <em>et al.,</em> 1997), it is only over the last decade that the concept of ‘ecosystem services’ has been widely adopted (Goldman &#38; Tallis, 2009). The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA, 2005) served to define and popularize the concept and has contributed to a number of other major international initiatives including The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) and the recently established Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Increasingly bilateral and multilateral donors, large foundations, and businesses are establishing well-funded programs primarily focused on protecting and/or restoring ecosystem services. For example, the <span style="color:#222222; background-color:#ffffff;">global corporation</span><span style="font-style:normal; color:#000000; background-color:#ffffff;"> Dow Chemical</span><span style="color:#222222; background-color:#ffffff;">Company </span>has recently announced its goal to mainstream ecosystem services into all of its business planning....</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Jane Carter Ingram</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Kent H. Redford</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>James E.M. Watson</dc:creator>
    <link>http://sapiens.revues.org/1459</link>
    <dc:date>2012-11-06</dc:date>
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    <title>Quasi-Circular Growth: a Pragmatic Approach to Sustainability for Non-Renewable Material Resources</title>
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      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The sustainable management of material resources has given rise to numerous studies that public policies draw on. Yet certain aspects are insufficiently investigated or elucidated, making public strategies less clear and consistent. On the one hand, the description of material cycles is usually based on flows and stocks, not on the underlying variation of flows (growth in consumption and production). On the other hand, the purpose assigned to recycling and waste reduction in the system dynamics is often poorly clarified: for instance, is waste production reduction to be understood in the regulatory sense (including waste that benefits from recycling), or in the environmental sense (only waste discharged in landfills or the natural environment)? Should the aim be to decouple economic growth from total raw material consumption (primary + recycled), or from primary raw material consumption (only what is extracted from natural deposits)? </p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">In Europe, there are three EU strategic lines whi...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>François Grosse</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2012-10-15</dc:date>
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    <title>Presentation: IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC)</title>
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      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading1">About us</h1>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) is a science-based network of more than 8,000 volunteer experts from almost every country of the world. SSC members include experts on plants, fungi, birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and invertebrates. The major role of the SSC is to provide information, advice and policy guidance to IUCN on biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, the inherent value of species, their role in ecosystem health and functioning, the provision of ecosystem services, and their support to human livelihoods. SSC members also provide scientific information and advice to conservation organisations, government agencies and other IUCN members, and to the private sector, as well as supporting the implementation of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). A major function of the SSC is to catalyze conservation action among these external actors.</p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">SSC members collectively form a highly-regarded and influential network of species experts that i...</p>]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-08-12</dc:date>
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    <title>Presentation: IUCN Commission on Environmental Law</title>
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      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading1">About us</h1>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL) consists of an extensive volunteer network of over 900 environmental law experts from more than 114 countries. CEL is divided into Specialist Groups on areas such as Armed Conflict and the Environment, Energy Law and Climate Change, Enforcement and Compliance, Ethics, Oceans, Coastal and Coral Reefs, Sustainable Use of Soil, Water and Wetlands and Indigenous Peoples &#38; Human Rights. Together with the Environmental Law Centre (ELC), CEL makes up the IUCN´s Environmental Law Programme (ELP). </p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The ELP is an integrated programme of activities that assists decision-makers with information, legal analysis, advisory services, legislative drafting, mentoring and capacity building at national, regional and global levels. The Programme also provides the opportunity and a forum for governments, non-governmental organisations and others to network and to share information and discuss ideas. The mission of the ELP is to advance environmental l...</p>]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-08-12</dc:date>
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    <title>Presentation : IUCN Commission on Education and Communication</title>
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      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading1">About CEC</h1>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (IUCN CEC) is a global network of more than 1,000 volunteers from 119 countries. CEC members contribute expertise on strategic communication, education, capacity development and knowledge management in support of the IUCN Programme and IUCN vision of a just world that values and conserves nature. </p>
      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading2">Background</h1>
      <h2 dir="ltr" id="heading3">Origins of the Commission on Education and Communication</h2>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Since 1948, volunteer Commission members have sought to enhance IUCN conservation efforts by engaging people within and beyond the conservation community in the issues of the time. Education has been a fundamental part of IUCN from its inception, when a formal advisory body was set up to advise the IUCN Council on conservation awareness. </p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The Commission on Education and Communication has developed in distinct phases over its 64-year history, just as conservation efforts have evolved:</p>
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          <p class="puces" dir="ltr">In the 1950s and 1960s, CEC focused on wildlife and conservation in school and youth e...</p>
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    <dc:date>2012-08-12</dc:date>
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    <title>IUCN Red List of Ecosystems</title>
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      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading1">Background to the IUCN Red List concept</h1>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">For decades, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has led the creation of red lists of threatened species. The first Red Data Books for birds and mammals were published in 1966 (Scott et al., 1987), gradually expanding both taxonomically and geographically (Rodríguez, 2008; Vié et al., 2009). Three fundamental milestones were reached during the last four decades: 1) the development of quantitative criteria for transparent, repeatable and objective risk assessment; 2) the extension of the species Red List from including only threatened species to an ever-expanding database on species from all taxonomic groups, both threatened and non-threatened; and 3) the extensiveness of application of the Red List concept across countries, regions and taxonomic groups. </p>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">First, in the early 1990s, IUCN transformed the process for listing threatened species (Mace &#38; Lande, 1991; IUCN, 2001), by adopting quantitative criteria that separated th...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Jon Paul Rodríguez</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Kathryn M. Rodríguez-Clark</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>David A. Keith</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Edmund G. Barrow</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>John Benson</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Emily Nicholson</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Piet Wit</dc:creator>
    <link>http://sapiens.revues.org/1286</link>
    <dc:date>2012-08-12</dc:date>
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    <title>Why South-east Asia should be the world’s priority for averting imminent species extinctions, and a call to join a developing cross-institutional programme to tackle this urgent issue</title>
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      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading1">Introduction</h1>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The world’s biodiversity is in crisis (e.g. Terborgh, 1999; Ceballos <em>et al</em>., 2010; Cardinale <em>et al</em>., 2012). Of biodiversity’s various levels, species hold a special place in the imagination of conservationists and the public alike: people equate to them more readily than to elements such as genes and ecosystems. <em>The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species</em> categorises species’ extinction risk (Vié <em>et al</em>., 2009). Recent comprehensive <em>Red List</em> assessments show high threat levels for amphibians (30% of 6,347 species considered globally threatened), birds (12% of 9,990), mammals (21% of 5,488), cycads (52% of 289), conifers (28% of 620) and freshwater crabs (17% of 1,281 species; but a further 49% of them were listed as Data Deficient) (Cumberlidge <em>et al</em>., 2009; Hilton-Taylor <em>et al</em>., 2009). Recent losses far exceed typical ‘background’ extinction rates, those before people dominated the earth (e.g. Baillie <em>et al</em>., 2004; McCullum, 2007; Ceballos <em>et al</em>., 2010). Moreover, the Red Li...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>J. W. Duckworth</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>G. Batters</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>J. L. Belant</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>E. L. Bennett</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>J. Brunner</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>J. Burton</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>D. W. S. Challender</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>V. Cowling</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>N. Duplaix</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>J. D. Harris</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>S. Hedges</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>B. Long</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>S. P. Mahood</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>P. J. K. McGowan</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>W. J. McShea</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>W. L. R. Oliver</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>S. Perkin</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>B. M. Rawson</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>C. R. Shepherd</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>S. N. Stuart</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>B. K. Talukdar</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>P. P. van Dijk</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>J-C. Vié</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>J. L. Walston</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>T. Whitten</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>R. Wirth</dc:creator>
    <link>http://sapiens.revues.org/1327</link>
    <dc:date>2012-08-12</dc:date>
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    <title>Presentation: IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)</title>
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      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading1">About us</h1>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">The IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) is a network of over 1,400 volunteer experts from 106 countries that provides multidisciplinary knowledge and expertise on the linkages between environmental, economic, cultural and social factors impacting natural resource conservation in order to assist society in finding solutions that are both sustainable and equitable. The Commission's work is carried out by specialist groups dealing with such topics as rights-based approaches to natural resource and protected area management and governance, indigenous and community conserved areas, food and agricultural policy for sustainable livelihoods, the impact of economic policies on natural resource management and conservation, and the social and environmental responsibility of the private sector.</p>
      <h1 dir="ltr" id="heading2">Background and mission</h1>
      <p class="texte" dir="ltr">CEESP traces its origins to the “Commission on Ecology”, created in 1954, which recommended the establishment of a &#34;Commission on Landscape P...</p>]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-08-12</dc:date>
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