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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
… legal and organizational frameworks that regulate tenure rights; for enhancing the transparency and administration of … including the Millennium Development Goals, that address human rights and tenure rights. When readers of these … international law, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… 7 Box 5. Effects of irrigation in Cameroon 9 Box 6. Human actions and biodiversity 32 Box 7. CAMPFIRE, Zimbabwe … are reasons for doubting that many of the improvements to human well-being can be maintained. The underlying principles … o n : L a n d s c a p e s , p e o p l e a n d p o w e r 8 rights to low value forest products. Whenever products become …
Assessing the international forest regime
… • The forest and forestry-related programmes and the human and financial resources for these programmes; • The … limited in scope. A strong basis for defining equitable rights for indigenous peoples who are forest dwellers or … ecological values of forests not associated with direct human use and consumption. The UN Environment Programme …
Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration
… functioning of a landscape and the well-being of the human communities that reside in that landscape. FLR takes a … 12.1 How agroforestry enhances ecological integrity and human well-being at a landscape … 54 7.1 The 4Rs framework: stakeholders’ rights, responsibilities, returns and relationships linked to …
Towards a mutually supportive relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Trade Organisation: An action guide
… WTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6 Intellectual Property Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … can apply are those that are: � necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health; � relating to the … legitimate objectives, which includes protection of human health or safety, animal or plant life or health, or …
Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)
… 2012 Revised ediTion © United Nations, November 2012. All rights reserved. The designations employed and the … . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 2. Human resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … changes to existing legislation, agency structures, human and logistical resources, agency and governmental …
Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… positive. Up to 90 percent of wildland fires are caused by human activities primarily through the uncontrolled use of … and rangelands are a major and continuing threat to human life, health and livelihoods, to economic development … Generally, law supports management by according powers, rights and responsibilities, defining the relationships …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… institutional system to approve CDM AR projects 47 4. Land rights issues, title to carbon and the nature of CERs 49 5. … grazing land management that occurred after 1990 and are human- induced can be accounted for by Annex I Parties in … Doc. FCCC/CP/2001/13/Add.1. “‘Afforestation’ is the direct human-induced conversion of land that has not been forested …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… River Protection Ordinance 2002, deal with the dumping of human waste and other pollutants into freshwater sources. … (xxxix) ‘Village’ means an integrated and contiguous human habitation commonly identified by a name and includes a … the court, compound any offence under this Ordinance. 147. Rights of Citizen not affected.— Nothing contained in section …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… that forest tenure reform that provides rural people with rights to access and use of forest resources can contribute … to rural poverty, economic growth, environmental quality, human well-being as well as biodiversity conservation. It has … The Role of Ekwar in Dryland Central Turkana, Kenya.” Human Ecology Vol. 18:163-176. Bourke, Michael, R. (2005). …