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Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities … conservation Nature Based Solutions to Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought 2nd Edition, November 2015 IUCN … Loss of land and other natural resources and reduced access to these lands and their natural resources have major …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Access to information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … and terrestrial ecosystems as well as weather patterns. Land, air, freshwater and marine pollution further threatens … biocapacity – the amount of biologically productive land and sea area that is available to regenerate these …
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… in Brazil that cover an area of 75 million hectares of land. National parks, of which there are 70, are one of … Africa covering over 3.7 million hectares of protected land representing the indigenous fauna, flora, landscapes and … 1-11: Urban protected areas and people 1. Provide access for all; reach out to diverse ethnic groups and the …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… managing and monitoring impacts arising from rainforest access and visitation; conservation principles and … from The Christensen Fund, LTS International, The Sacred Land Film Project, UNESCO and WWF International. Published … the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, are asked to respect …
The Futures of Privately Protected Areas
… between 2000 and 2010, including ownership type 22 4. Land ownership of the NABU-Stiftung Nationales Naturerbe, … from partial data in 2012) 82 18. Options and tools for Land Stewardship: a roadmap towards a full property transfer … rights in a single area of land or water, such as for access, to use resources or for settlement. The extent to …
Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… protected areas in southern Australia 88 6.9 Restoring the land and honouring the history of Lyell Island in Gwaii … degraded. Humanity directly affects 83 per cent of the land surface (Sanderson et al., 2002) and 100 per cent of the … as appropriate and temporarily limit public access when a natural disturbance makes the ecosystem more …
Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas
… lines for IUCN Cate gory V Protected Areas: Protected Land- scapes/Seascapes. No. 9. Adrian Phil lips, 2002, xv + … 28 3.2 A “typical” Euro pean protected area? A co-managed land scape 29 4.1 Possible criteria to distin guish among … conser va tion 94 6.7 The Aarhus (UN/ECE) Conven tion on Access to Infor ma tion, Public Partic i pa tion in Deci …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… reduction of the impact of chemicals and prevention of land degradation, while generating sustainable livelihoods. … EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and another dealing with access and benefit sharing (ABS), implemented by the … priorities, formal and informal protected areas and land uses in South Africa 87 Figure 13 Overlaps between …
Sustainable tourism in protected areas: Guidelines for planning and management
… in this work, and to the Department of Conservation and Land Management in Western Australia which similarly … of Regional Services in the Department of Conservation and Land Management in the same state before spending four years … areas. They must also ensure adequate and appropriate access for tourism and recreation. This is a substantial …
Putting nature on the map: a report and recommendations on the use of the IUCN system of protected area categorisation in the UK
… others on species or habitat protection; most owning land, but often leasing it too, or advising on land management. We have engaged with these and other … back hundreds of years, it was the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, applying to England, and Wales …