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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 for … conservation Nature Based Solutions to Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought 2nd Edition, November 2015 IUCN … Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for …
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 … challenges of the 21st century. Habitat loss and degradation, overexploitation of resources, climate change, … degraded. Humanity directly affects 83 per cent of the land surface (Sanderson et al., 2002) and 100 per cent of the …
Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for … to each stage of the spiral (Figure 1). Environmental degradation and poor natural resources management have shown … promotes the sustainable use of ecosystems through better land use planning and development planning, however it …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… and top-down strategies 47 3.2.4 The role of NGOs 49 3.2.5 Land tenure factors 50 3.2.6 Choosing instruments 51 Key … protection of environmental flows 103 Key messages 104 3.2 Land Use Planning Legislation 105 Introduction 105 3.2.1 … REDD+ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation RIKS Research Institute for Knowledge Systems SA …
Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas
… Needs Half vision. Its aim is to ensure that enough wild land and seascapes are protected and interconnected … and cultural meaning through an explicit focus on non-degradation. Create true partnership among stakeholders and … institutional owners, individuals or trusts that own the land. While desirable, these are often short-term and …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… Functions 8 1.3.3 Wetland Attributes 9 2 Wetland Loss and Degradation: Extent and Causes 13 2.1 Estimates of Wetland … and Institutions 62 5.2.3 Poorly-adapted Legal Regimes for Land Tenure and Resource Use 64 5.2.4 Jurisdictional and … 180 13 Integrating Wetland Conservation and Wise Use into Land-use Planning 183 Box 2. Wetlands and Regional Planning …
African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Senegal: Addressing resource degradation to enhance climate change resilience . . . . . . … and through relying on protected areas as a holistic land-management tool. By drawing on these experiences and the … and environmental education programmes. 5. participatory land planning To identify the priority intervention areas for …
Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report
… whether this order has really affected the powerful and land hungry encroachers, it has created absolute havoc in the … because of their names having not entered the official land records for no fault of theirs"6 “Establishment of a … of a large number of people as well as ecological degradation.13 The country's largest water and land …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 9 Case Studies of Linkages in Land-use Planning and Conservation . . . . . . . . 177 … they are insufficient in scale and number – either on the land or in the sea – to significantly address this gap in … that are unprecedented in historic times. Destruction and degradation of natural habitats are widespread and profound …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… 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 … disrespectful tourism, poverty and population dynamics, degradation of neighbouring environ- ments, reduction of the …