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Canadian parks and protected areas : Parcs et aires protégées du Canada : aider le Canada à faire face au changement climatique : rapport du Groupe de travail sur le changement climatique du Conseil canadien des parcs

14 Mar 2013

The goal of the members features, conserving biodiversity and change adaptation and mitigation, of the CPC Climate Change Working cultural resources, and providing and some of the actions taken to Group is to encourage the creation opportunities for recreation and date by provincial, territorial and of ecologically resilient networks connection with nature. [...] For example, the governments of Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories and Ontario now recognize the value of parks and protected areas for increasing their overall capacity to adapt to and mitigate climate change: Newfoundland and Labrador: “The Department of Environment and Conservation continues to develop its Natural Areas Systems Plan to complete a comprehensive system of parks and [...] Environment Canada 2011a Parks and protected areas help to Parks and protected areas agencies parks and protected areas, as well conserve all forms ’of biodiversity across Canada are working to as their potential for enhancing by providing relatively intact increase the number and size of climate change adaptation, is ecosystems and the space and protected lands and waters within helping inform th [...] The results of the synthesize, apply and mobilize understanding the implications of study have provided an important new and existing knowledge based climate change for the provincial knowledge foundation for Ontario on natural and social sciences protected areas system and to Parks to assess actions for research, and increase the impact develop adaptation options. [...] The adapting to climate change and for of university-based research in research engaged experts and contributing to the development government decision-making and staff in identifying and evaluating of provincial climate change policy formulation.
agriculture environment climate change mitigation adaptation education restoration conservation biodiversity water climate change adaptation climate change mitigation natural resources carbon sequestration earth sciences ecology national parks and reserves protected areas parks wildlife conservation ecosystem ecosystem services nature climatic changes resilience conservation biology ecological resilience
ISBN
9781100218939
Pages
54
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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