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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

… CBD Aichi Target 15, the UNFCCC REDD+ goal, and the Rio+20 land degra- dation neutral goal. 4 5 Acknowledgements The … goals related to combatting desertification and land degradation. The response to the Bonn Challenge has been … Before those responsible for national or sub-national land use decide whether to engage in this challenge, they …
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Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration

… the benefits they derive from the management of their land. The term FLR is new, but most of its components are … strategies for restoring forest functions on agricultural land … in Nepal ............50 5.2 Restoration of agricultural land in Australia .........................................51 …
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Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values

… East. Her work focuses on landscape stewardship, private land con- servation, and community involvement in protected … V Task Force of WCPA. He has written and lectured on land- scape and now serves on the boards of several major … and Seascapes – are defined by IUCN as areas “of land, with coasts and seas as appropriate, where the …
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Improving access to forest resources - Experiences in informal tenure reform from IUCN’s Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy

… ensure local confidence about continued access to land and encourage investment of labour and resources; from the Andaman coast of Thailand, where negotiated land use has benefitted communities and acted as a ‘policy … from the Miyun watershed in China, where negotiated land- use changes have encouraged local people to become …
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Landscape conservation law. Present trends and perspectives in international and comparative law.

… nature conservation, pollution control and abatement, and land use. Certainly until recently it has not been the … by humankind: the demands which its people place upon the land for food, timber, minerals, water supplies, building land, tourism and recreation, transport systems and so forth …
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A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes

… will inevitably involve trade-offs among the different land-use types, each of which provides a different mix of … managed landscapes, where agriculture is often a major land use. Ecosystem services, however, can often highlight … There could be a whole lot of different competing land uses that would compromise a sustainable supply of …
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Linking Landscapes - Exploring the relationships between World Heritage cultural landscapes and IUCN protected areas

… often reflect specific techniques of sustainable land use, considering the characteristics and limits of the … can contribute to modern techniques of sustainable land use and can maintain or enhance natural values in the … landscape. The continued existence of traditional forms of land use supports biological diversity in many regions of the …
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Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 7 The World Heritage Convention, cultural landscapes and wetlands

… presented by the natural environment. The term “cultural land- scape” embraces a diversity of manifestations of the … often reflecting specific techniques of sustain- able land use or a specific spir- itual relationship with nature. …
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