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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas
… • Alexia Baldascini, Forestry Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, … poor and disadvantaged communities – many others are urban, living in towns and cities in mountain valleys and on … global importance as more than half of us live in urban areas from which we need to escape periodically, to …
Global Warming of 1.5°C - an IPPC special report on the impacts of global warming
… needed for ozone formation remain high (high confidence). Urban heat islands often amplify the impacts of heatwaves in … spreading and sharing, community-based adaptation) and urban areas (e.g., green infrastructure, sustainable land use … measures can reduce nitrous oxide and methane from agriculture, methane from the waste sector, some sources of …
Water as a human right?
… by 2015. The WSSD recognised the key role of water in agriculture, energy, health, biodiversity and ecosystems as … will face enormous challenges over the coming decades. The urban populations of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the … cost of providing new infrastructure needs for all major urban water sectors would be around $25 to $50 billion per …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… Law and Sustainable Development Since Rio: Legal Trends in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (FAO, 2003). The … The big devel- opment projects benefit most of the urban population and industries by providing elec- tricity … Forestry, agricul- ture, fishery/marine environment, and urban development (urban pollution) are the areas most …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… and specialities of the ecosystem in question (shifting agriculture, crop rotation, etc.), the selection of … waste dumps, plantations, tourist resorts, motorways, urban redevelopment and other schemes intended to transform … between countries, within countries (regional disparities, urban/rural divides), and between gender and/or different …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… (such as water and clean air) to all humans, rural and urban, wealthy or poor. It also provides important insurance … forest plantations, mining projects and commercial agriculture, which not only have negative environmental … and exceeding land’s carrying capacity, slash-and-burn agriculture, the impoverishment of vegetation leading to the …