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Depend on nature: Ecosystem services supporting human livelihoods
… basins, coastal zones and forests through landscape-scale restoration. • Initiate programmes to control and/or … with a poor or bad EWI cover almost half of the planet’s land and inland water surface. Those with a medium EWI cover a further 43%. Only 8.6% of land area is covered by countries with a fair EWI. Combining …
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 … status of the landscape, initiated an ambitious forest restoration programme in honour of the King of Thailand’s …
Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts
… and processing. As coconut grows in coastal areas valuable land is not removed from agriculture. Ecosystem preservation … initiative, 2005). Drylands—covering 40% of the world’s land mass and inhabited by only one-third of the world’s … Enhancing Ecosystems and Improving Energy Supplies Forest Restoration and Energy Services Shinyanga is one of …
Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas
… of Lombok, Indonesia 14 Mountains: 24% of the Earth’s Land Surface WCF Theme 3: Biodiversity Loss and Species … areas – global priorities Mountains cover 24% of the land surface of our planet (see page 14). These very diverse … segments of the GRI Chile: Implementation of the GRI restoration and tourism plan in the Ascotan – San Pedro de …
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 …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… of nature; • they were elitist, failing to consider the land rights and sophisticated resource management of … such as the right to access and cultivate a parcel of land. The attribution of certain individual possession rights … valuation of community benefits resulting from ecosystem restoration. Consolidating approaches to equity and …