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… - Erosion control … - Water temperature control … - Biological control … - Riverine flood control … - Coastal flood protection … 3.6 Flood bypasses … multiple policy areas. For example, floodplains can reduce flood risk and simultaneously improve water quality, recharge …

… of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was drawn up in 1973 to control trade in wildlife. It does so by affording to species … washed up on the south coast of Trinidad by the Orinoco in flood, but no breeding has ever been recorded (Pritchard and … 1978). Occurs in large rivers, oxbow lakes, and during the flood season, in lakes formed by rivers and in flooded forest …

… 39 Chapter 4 Legislation and policy for land degradation control .................................................. 41 … degraded from the decline of ground water. Traditional flood irrigation practice in agriculture is a wasteful use of … Water-saving Irrigation Implementation Measures for the Flood Prevention Law Measures for the Management and …

… global land- holdings over which a company has management control is increasing or decreasing. Once it is … All landholdings under the company’s manage- ment control, irrespective of whether they are owned or leased, … of the landholdings over which a company has management control is increasing or decreasing. Figure 2 provides a …

… also contributed to local poverty by denying poor people control over and access to the natural resources that … the anticipated return from irrigation. After 1994, pilot flood releases were made in the Waza Logone floodplain, … implies that rural people will have more decentralized control over the resources which they have traditionally used …

… - Black Box Woodlands of south-eastern Australia is a flood-dependent woodland ecosystem type affected by five main … extraction of water from rivers for irrigation has altered flood regimes and their spatial extent, reducing … as a consequence of clearing for agriculture”. Because flood regimes are fundamental to ecosystem dynamics and water …

… 21 Liberalization, Resource-Raiding and Loss of Local Control over Resources 22 The Global Commons Discourse 23 … can also be characterized as commons because users cannot control use or impacts caused by actors on the opposite side … degradation. Inter-state conflicts and competition over control of and access to natural resources such as water that …

… weather, such as more shade for farm animals or through flood relief by providing a ‘natural sponge’ to retain water. … such as marshes, floodplain forests and bogs for flood prevention, water storage and CO2 intake, giving space … of storm water management infrastructure and provide flood control, offer food sources, and stabilize soil to prevent or …

… conservation planning 114 Key messages 115 3.3 Development Control Legislation 116 Introduction 116 3.3.1 Development … Sustainable management of grassland 0 Protection against flood 0 Storage of nu- trients 0 Maintenance of soil … caused to the site by natural disasters such as fire and flood. Tradable development rights (TDRs). TDRs represent …

… 5 Box 2. Cane Toad and Other Biological Control Agents … taries of the Danube up to the maximum extent of its flood waters, and to legs, estuaries and pools perma- nently … or temporarily connected with the Danube, in the Danube flood-basin in the territory of the Con- tracting Parties. …