IUCN CEM

The Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) promotes ecosystem-based approaches for the management of landscapes and seascapes, provides guidance and support for ecosystem-based management and promotes resilient socio-ecological systems to address global challenges. CEM deals with the complexity of ecosystems, their components and interrelations, with people and cultures making different and often conflicting uses of the ecosystems, and therefore with institutions and regulations dealing with these uses. CEM has several Thematic and Specialist Groups most of which being of relevance to PEDRR activities, especially the Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction and the Nature-based Solutions Thematic Groups.