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Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects

… - 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 …
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Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening

… 26 4.8 Erosion control and watershed protection ............................ … conservation. Soil conservation on riverbanks is part of a flood control programme. Damaged watersheds pose serious … application that there must not be a negative impact on flood or erosion control, or slope stability. The Toronto …
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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

… services (such as water supply, pollination, erosion control or carbon sequestration) and more resilient … sloping land, along water courses, in areas that naturally flood and around critical water bodies. Land Use Land … of criteria Soil degradation Disturbance and deforestation Flood risk Topography FLR potential FLR type Appropriateness …
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Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation

… studies where comparison is made between fragments and ‘control’ areas of similar size and habitat within larger … • Surface drainage patterns • Ground water accession • Flood mitigation and control • Sedimentation and holding … of habitats is frequently high. Stream edge habitats, flood plain habitats, old stream channels, and successional …
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Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.

… 130 5.1.1 Land Tenure 135 5.1.1.1 NWFP Gomal Zam Project (Control and Prevention of Speculation in Land) Ordinance 2001 … and adopted children; (ix) ‘disaster’ includes famine, flood, cyclone, fire, earthquake, drought, and damages caused … of the Zilla Accounts Committee; (t) review measures for flood relief, and storm water drainage; and (u) require the …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… 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 …
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Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration

… 97 11.1 Requirements for plants to be used for erosion control......................103 11.2 Mixed plantations vs … do not find themselves in a situation where they lose control over the resource just as it becomes productive; and … means that more people are likely to be affected when a flood, drought or landslide occurs. While environmental …
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Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories

… or which performs a protective function such as avalanche control, should be regarded as protected area. Others believe … Examples include forests that are set aside for avalanche control, watershed protection or as a future strategic … Many governments are gradually handing responsibility or control of some state lands to private or communal interests, …
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Assessing the international forest regime

… using incentive measures, rather than simply command-and-control. Thirdly, a defining feature of the Central American … gap is the lack of an international mechanism to control illegal trade in forest products. This would be a … law – e.g. through universal agreement on permitting and control schemes. However, this has so far not been attempted. …
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