This volume brings together the insights of a number of scholars who each write from their own expertise about climate change and its consequences for society at large. Some of them are descriptive, explaining the most recent insights in human behaviour and perception of climate risks.

This document is a collection of case studies and articles that address how relationships between humans and nature function in socio-ecological production landscapes around the world. The examples highlight the various physical structures, management techniques and governance systems that characterize these landscapes, as well as the benefits they provide for biodiversity and human well-being, the threats they currently face, and ways to address these threats.

The report provides information of importance for identifying the scope of an international ABS regime, and offers contributions to the discussion of the usefulness and possible design of a sectoral approach to ABS within the framework of an international regime.

This report starts with a brief account of different types of IPRs, including a brief overview of the WTO TRIPs agreement. It focuses on biodiversity and relationship with the IPR regime. The benefits of biodiversity and the Convention on Biological Diversity have been explained. The relationship between the CBD and the WTO TRIPs agreement has been analysed, including comparing the relevant provisions of these two regulatory regimes.

This special issue of Participatory Learning and Action explores two important participatory tools that indigenous people and local communities can use to help defend their biocultural heritage against these pressures and threats, and assert their rights over resources and traditional knowledge.

This paper evaluated the issues and indigenous approaches governing flood plain wetland under tropical climatic environment of wetland cluster in Assam, Northeast India.

This report examines relevant laws and policies, and their provisions on scope, prior informed consent, mutually agreed terms on benefit-sharing, compliance, and monitoring and enforcement, as well as any access agreements that have been granted or relevant experience gained in the implementation of ABS measures. It also presents a discussion and conclusions on the main legislative challenges to implementing the Protocol.

This publication presents a collection of 18 indigenous practices which were developed over time in the communities in the Asia-Pacific region. The cases were chosen based on the following criteria: origin of the knowledge, its relative level of adaptation over time, its relationship to local skills and materials, its success in surviving or coping with disasters over time, and its applicability to other societies facing similar situations.

This biennial report provides an insight on the role of forests in creating sustainable livelihoods and focuses on four key areas - regional trends on forest resources, development of sustainable forest industries, climate change mitigation and adaptation & the local value of forests.

The Nepal Biodiversity Strategy (NBS) is an important tool for implementing the provisions under CBD. It serves as an overall framework for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and biological resources through the management of habitat, species and genetic diversity in the country.