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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… professionals. Hann Sheng Linn (left) is a retired senior military officer; Nora Liang is a retired banker. Ted Trzyna. … rainy winters. Its landscape, heavily influenced by human activity for millennia, is a mosaic of low shrubs and … development is also addressed within the park. A military camp, a transmission tower and commercial shops have …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… derived from its natural configuration and/or from human activity. These definitions place the treaty fully in the … side. Whereas no human use had been tolerated within the military zone along the shore of the lake, the other land had … Antarctic Treaty system, which have prohibited mining and military activity on the continent, declared the region a …
Global Land Outlook
… pattern and physical results of past and present human activity (terracing, water storage or drainage structures, … to good agricultural land, presence of government and military complexes, etc. The size, pace, and nature of … that estimates are exaggerated,159 yet policy makers, the military, and governments are increasingly treating this …
Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges
… abatement (Hartig et al., 2014), the promotion of physical activity and associated Body Mass Index improvements … and range management for grazing has become a marginal activity (Haddad, 2014). The contribution of natural … but rather to preserve the rich cultural, historical (e.g. military) and natural heritage of the area. However, it …
Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services : Guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas
… territories, sacred sites, watershed protection areas, and military training grounds may provide effective biodiversity … citizens and its economy, after decades of restrictive military rule that both limited economic development and … both rich in biodiversity and are sites of intense human activity. Therefore, they are ‘natural laboratories’ for …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… has been broken or disrupted but also all forms of human activity and development that may be some of the main sources … timber value), ornamental gardens and arboreta, and military zones (Dudley and Phillips, 2006). Within their … – A Concept Paper 167 IUCN-EPLP No. 85 and production, the military, and customs. There are also likely to be new or …