Ecora: An Integrated Ecosystem Management Approach

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This will be an innovative project that for the first time proposes and tests a number of approaches and methods in respect to climate change, including: Development of research methods for trend • assessment based on CАFF criteria and the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) indicators; Assessment of biodiversity status and trends • based on (i) scientific data, and (ii) traditional knowledge;Assessment of traditional nature use and local community economy status and changes; Development of strategic climate change • adaptation options for biodiversity conservation,

supporting and optimizing the Arctic NPA system and traditional nature use; Development of recommendations that take into • account traditional knowledge and combine it with scientific data to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change; Development and implementation of • demonstration project(s) on climate change adaptation for biodiversity conservation, supporting and optimizing the Arctic NPA system, and traditional nature use. adaptation for biodiversity conservation, • supporting and optimizing the Arctic NPA system, and traditional nature use.

Svyatoslav Zabelin