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Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration
… Vietnam.......................................16 2.1c The ‘modified’ forest landscape – Costa Rica … influence the attractiveness of restoration to communities living in degraded forest … estimates indicate that there may be 500 million people living within modified and degraded forest landscapes in the …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… are a key element of nature conservation in environments modified by human impacts. Accordingly, it is useful at this … to predators and com- petitors. Consequently, even though living in the same landscape, species with contrasting … closed circles represent remnant habitats from which the organism under study has been driven to local extinction and …
Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy
… referred to as ‘soft’ tenure, that is rights that “can be modified relatively easily by bureaucratic discretion” (FAO, … and occupancy were not permitted, people had been living and farming in Doi Mae Salong for many years. This was … significantly to the impoverishment of the people living in the watershed because of the restrictions they have …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… there is some improvement in the percentage of people living on less than one dollar per day (29.6 percent in 1990; … can be thought of as the ways in which people make a living. This is not just a matter for the poor, although … with or by the people Conservation by the people Slightly modified from Barrow, Gichohi and Infield 2000 C h a p t e r …
Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… with the FAO Guidelines, "fire" is any fire burning living or dead vegetation outside the urban environment. … compounding of offences, etc.) that may be preserved, modified, or used as models in forest fire legislation, may … fires (art. 35); and � an obligation for individuals living in a fire-prone area to contribute to fire-fighting …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… to mean air, water, land and layers of the atmosphere; living organisms and inorganic matter; the ecosystem and … Land Commission: Provided that- (i) when any such order is modified or reversed on appeal by the Deputy Land … means a dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment …
From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the UNFCCC
… in the TAs and the changes countries have made, in modified submissions,4 as a result of TAs. 2.1 Forest … after the “TA week” in Bonn, Germany, countries can submit modified FREL/FRL submissions in which they can change the … “Biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of living natural resources”, GCF funding should not be used to …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… integrity and provide tangible benefits to local people living in degraded or deforested landscapes. It differs from … the host Government. For example, the use of genetically modified plants or saplings is not excluded by UNFCCC COP decisions. The choice to use or not to use genetically modified plants of saplings is left to the host country, …
Towards a mutually supportive relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Trade Organisation: An action guide
… fish and the complexity of legal jurisdictions over marine living resources: � Subsidisation of fleets and acquisition … practices and the economic value of marine and coastal living resources � COP-6 will consider adopting guiding … full implementation of the CBD by increasing the risk of modified organisms. � There is a lack of clarity about the …
Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories
… protection – large area of unmodified or slightly modified land and/or sea, retaining its natural … than hot. Tufa continues to build up on the site and living mosses at the edge of the pools are calcified. The … erosion into the lake. As a result management has been modified in various ways: for example, many trees are left …