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Global Land Outlook
… GLOBAL LAN D OUTLOOK First Edition GLOBAL LAND OUTLOOK First Edition ©UNCCD, 2017 Secretariat of the … Partners GLO Contributing Partners THE ECONOMICS OF LAND DEGRADATION The objective of the United Nations … large tracts of arable land, usually with water rights and access to transport infrastructure, as a hedge against future …
Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide
… 2. Protection and security for occupiers and owners 84 3. Land management 86 4. Land and soil agreements 88 5. Markets and farmer … and use rights; Common property rights regimes include: access, communal property, private property, State prop- …
Developing a Global Soil Regime
… loss of biodiversity, desertification, drought, and land degradation have become more prominent. While … climate change have garnered close attention, issues of land degradation and sustainability of soils has attracted … warming to 2 degrees Celsius, and to ensure everyone access to enough food. We can achieve none of these goals …
Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report
… Wuhan University, China Back cover photo: Crops in steep land, Dr Jean Louis Janeau, Institut de recherché pour le … of Soil 10 2.1.2 Cultural Functions of Soil 11 2.1.3 Land Use Functions of Soil 11 3. The Nature of Soil 11 4. … using land at higher intensity to capitalise on greater access to international markets. This cycle establishes a …
Persistent Organic Pollutants: Contaminated Site Investigation and Management Toolkit
… Professor and Vice Head of Institute, Contaminated Land Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied … Initiatives 12 1.4 Policy and Legal Issues Associated with Land Acquisition 12 1.5 Permissible Levels of POPs in the … to the low levels of contaminants detected. • Though access to the site is supposed to be restricted, in reality …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… 28 Chapter 3 Land degradation and desertification in Western PRC … 31 3.2 Definition of land degradation and desertification … land tenure; land-use rights; gender rights and market access; compensation measures for grassland closure; and 21 … a conflict or disagreement between parties, generally over access, or a perceived right of access, to natural resources …
Supporting, promoting and strengthening local agri-food systems
… to protection measures, and RECOGNIZING the role of the land-use matrix in the preservation of biodiversity and its … environmental services; WISHING to propose and promote new land-use visions and new processes of creating land- use … according to a principle of social equity, guaranteeing access for all (in terms of availability, diversity, quality …