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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field

… in species richness due to land degradation in semi-arid areas. Negative impacts of massive ecosystem degradation … and elaborate appropriate and integrated plans for coastal zone management, water resources and agriculture, and for the … potential and low production risk, especially in semi-arid regions. Isolated wetlands in the Sahel are thus natural …
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Global Land Outlook

… nature belongs to God.31 Rivers and lakes need a buffer zone, and tree planting and kindness to animals are … varnish,” part mineral, part microbial coating typical of arid areas. For the Pitjantjatjara and Anangu cultures, they … stated “that those countries which are now treeless and arid deserts, part of Egypt, Syria, Persia, and so forth, …
19 Jun 2026 Literature

Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China

… of the world’s worst land degradation (LD) problems. The arid, semi-arid, and sub-humid (dryland) zones of Western PRC cover … a nature reserve for the primitive forests and riparian zone. Instead, the new programme considered the protection of …
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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… on vegetation history and climate, with restoration in arid areas being more challenging. What are protected areas? … al., 1999). To expand an existing protected area or buffer zone to a protected area In Queensland, Australia, the … Restoring drylands in the Middle East Global drylands—as arid and semi-arid lands are often called—support a third of …
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Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)

… on Coolibah – Black Box Woodland, an ecosystem on a semi-arid floodplain in eastern Australia (Keith et al., 2009). In … ecosystem engineers (Green et al., 2011). Invasion of arid Australian shrublands and grasslands by Buffel Grass … Rowling, R.W. (2000). ‘Effects of livestock on riparian zone vegetation in an Australian dryland river’. Regulated …
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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines

… and associated cultural heritage of the country in arid, coastal, mountain and bushveld habitats. With the … fringe’, and ‘rural fringe’ are also used to describe the zone immediately surrounding an urban area; where an urban … wildlife migration from over 200,000 hectares of semi-arid savanna. Electric fences along the park’s northern, …
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Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges

… based management approaches (e.g. integrated coastal zone management and integrated water resources management); … Colorado General background Water resources in the semi-arid southwestern US are under increasing pressure from … The overarching challenge in transitional and semi-arid riparian systems is managing the uncertainty associated …
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Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India

… DID Difference in Difference EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EMCaB Environmental … Forests VFC Village Forest Committee VSZ Vulture Safe Zone WWF World Wildlife Fund for Nature Tables CHAPTER 1 … ranges from high Brahmaputra, salt lakes of the arid zone, tanks of the Deccan plateau, and lakes and marshes …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values

… Agrobiodiversity conservation in the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, Spain: Experience and recommendations for … operating at various collective levels. The savannah, arid lands, and forests that have been selected by State … 400,000 people, with a distinctive territory in the semi-arid lands of Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya. In …
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In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs

… such as island nations and those with inhospitable and arid interiors, humankind lives almost entirely on the coast. … of their energy in the surface waters. The reef flat (the zone of a reef extending seaward across the lagoon) and the … populations on, and rapid development of, the coastal zone guarantee that we will see an increase in economic, …
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