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Global Land Outlook
… food loss is primarily due to the lack of storage and transport while in wealthy nations, food waste is a result of … of arable land, usually with water rights and access to transport infrastructure, as a hedge against future price … production, carbon-intensive processing and transport, land-intensive diets (primarily from the increased …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… By trapping sediments, wetlands also reduce downstream transport of sediments (Russi et al. 2013), whereas restoring … Because they greatly narrow the area available to transport floods, they do work to rapidly flush floodwaters … velocities on the floodplain, much of the sediment in transport is deposited there. Because nutrients such as …
Economic valuation of ecological functions and services of natural ecosystems
… These methods include the market price method, the transport cost method and the hedonic price method. The … use, etc.) with a primary study of the contingent or transport cost- type of study. Table 1 is an illustration of …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… measures in all developmental activities such as trade, transport, agriculture, industrial development, mining, and … techniques, and the regional planning, town planning, transport, infrastructure, tourism, and recreation sectors … for the Alpine region; to optimize energy production, transport, and distribution taking into account the needs of …
Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)
… a suite of coastal processes that are focused on sediment transport and dynamics. Sediments are transported to tidal … requiring ongoing sediment replenishment and transport to persist (Healy et al., 2002). Therefore, … from sources such as rivers, and interruption of sediment transport and deposition mechanisms, are considered the …
Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… Canada); Ilpo Huolman (Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment for Uusimaa, Finland); … Pollutants • sewage, petrochemicals, etc. • long-range transport of toxics Nutrient retention • calcium, nitrogen by … Scouring (erosion) of tidal channels Suspended sediment transport into subsided marsh sea Figure 5: The PSNERP–NST …
Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… flooding, particularly during large storm events. Erosion, transport, and deposition of sediment allows l 79 l l 78 l … would call for the restoration of the natural sediment transport process to allow the shoreline and barrier … provides dry- season grazing for livestock. In addition, transport over water using canoes becomes possible, a …
Aspects contemporains du droit de l'environnement en Afrique de l'ouest et centrale
… la création et la gestion des aires marines protégées, le transport de déchets dangereux, l’immersion, la pollution … portant réglementation de la collecte, du stockage, du transport, du traitement et de l’élimination des déchets … 1992 portant organisation de la commercialisation et du transport de bois dans les grandes agglomérations et la …