Building capital through bioregional planning and biosphere reserves

Building capital through bioregional planning and biosphere reserves

The need to implement innovative approaches to sustainability is now more critical than ever. This discussion draws on parts of the puzzle that must be assembled to achieve integrated, cross-tenure and jurisdictional management of whole regions and their peoples for a sustainable future. A regional, landscape ecology approach helps us to move on from theory and historical lessons to boldly desi...

Building institutional capacity for environmental governance through social entrepreneurship: lessons from Canadian biosphere reserves

Sustainability-oriented organizations have typically adopted governance approaches that undertake community participation and collaboration through multistakeholder arrangements. Documented challenges of this model are associated with collaboration and institutional capacity, and include reactive accountability structures, inability to reach consensus, funding limitations, and lack of innovatio...

Model risk and capital reserves

We propose a procedure to take model risk into account in the computation of capital reserves. This addresses the need to make the allocation of capital reserves to positions in given markets dependent on the extent to which reliable models are available. The proposed procedure can be used in combination with any of the standard risk measures, such as Value-at-Risk and expected shortfall. We as...

APPROACHES TO BIOREGIONAL PLANNING - Part One

Today, governments and communities rely mainly on their national parks, and other special protected areas, seed banks, tissue collections, zoos, and botanic gardens to maintain the diverse life-forms found in the world’s many habitats. These mechanisms and tools comprise vital components of any national biodiversity strategy. However, new policies are required that secure these advances and pro...

Urban Biosphere Reserves: Integrating Conservation, Community and Sustainability