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Global Land Outlook
… of conservation, land and water management, and restoration, the core pathway to achieve the target on Land … events. Human-induced drivers such as deforestation, wetland drainage, overgrazing, unsustainable land use … local water availability and quality. The total value of wetland services is estimated at USD 70 billion per year for …
Securing the future for global peatlands
… a wide range of ecosystem services, and RECALLING that the restoration and sustainable use of peatlands has long been … is located in a designated protected area or is subject to wetland preservation laws; The World Conservation Congress, … Charter, by the Ramsar Convention in its classification of wetland type, and by IUCN; 2. REQUESTS the World Commission …
Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values
… in December 2004 with the Agreement on the Repatriation, Restoration and Monitoring of Agrobiodiversity of Native … the land was entirely forested with the exception of wetland areas. With settlement, valley ecosystems changed … are focused respectively on an internationally important wetland ecosystem (the Broads) and an equally important …
Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?
… the functioning of the overall system: e.g. riparian and wetland zones in the drylands, or valleys in mountain … that improved rangeland productivity and grassland restoration would mean that herd sizes could increase to … management tool to maintain biodiversity within the saline wetland pastures of the park. In fact much of the network of …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… shade trees, fields in various stages of succession, wetland and riparian areas". While this definition does not … of soil, improvement of the groundwater situation and the restoration of watercourses. Once again, environmental …
The impact of disasters and crises on agriculture and food security
… would therefore tend to reflect the value of full sector restoration. Furthermore, Government reports from 2008 and … are designed to evaluate immediate needs for recovery and restoration and inform disaster response. Their focus, … The medium- and long-term rebuilding and sustainable restoration of resilient critical infrastructures, services, …