Subject Guides: Sustainable Development Goals at NSCC: Goal 15: Life On Land

About Goal 15

Goal 15, Life on Land, aims to protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems. This goal promoted the use of sustainable management and restoration of forests, wetlands, mountains and other terrestrial ecosystems. It also seeks to protect vulnerable and endangered species while preventing the invasion of alien species. 

Learn more about Goal 15

UN Environment Programme. (2020, April 23). How nature can protect us from pandemics [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/9NUaC_Fp9qU

Resources and Links

Plant Watch Nova Scotia
Learn more about the plants of Nova Scotia
Spreading like wildfire: the rising threat of extraordinary landscape fires
Describes how climate change and land-use change are making wildfires worse and anticipates a global increase of extreme fires even in areas previously unaffected.
UNCCD: Land management & restoration
UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD): Land restoration is the ecological process to restore a natural and safe landscape for humans, wildlife, and plant communities.
UNEP: Five threats to the water that sustains our farms
A closer look at what is behind the decline of the world’s per capita freshwater reserves and how those challenges are affecting farmers.

Books

eBook - Primer of ecological restoration by Karen Holl
An introduction to the theory and practice of ecological restoration as a strategy to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems.
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds by Ben Almassi
How can reparative environmental justice provide a useful perspective on ecological restoration, human-animal entanglements, climate change, environmental racism, and traditional ecological knowledge?
eBook - Transitioning to sustainable life on land by Volker Beckmann
Presents reviews, original research, and practical experiences from different disciplines with a focus on: protection, restoration and sustainable use of diverse terrestrial ecosystems.

Key Organizations

FAO: Forestry
Through its Forestry Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) seeks to have transformational impacts that benefit forests and forest-dependent people and help achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals.
IUCN
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organizations, making it the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.
Reclaiming our Roots: Land based learning and community stewardship
(Re)connecting Indigenous and Non-Indigenous youth with meaningful land based knowledge rooted in Mi’kmaw values.
UNREDD
United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD): the UN knowledge and advisory platform on forest solutions to the climate crisis.