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… when numerous upstream landholders dedicate their land to intensive agricultural or cattle-ranching activities, or when forest owners convert their forest land to agricultural land. In these cases, down- stream water … beneficiaries to service providers for the protection or restoration – of watershed services; Cost-sharing among …

… much of the impetus to convert, clear and exploit forest land and resources comes from the search for greater income, … ownership, food security, cash availability and access to land (17). Logging truck in Harapan, Indonesia. 4 IUCN Forest … their carbon footprint by investing in forest conservation/restoration projects), the supply-side is often not able to …

… across other high priority issues such as climate change, land degradation, hazardous chemicals and wastes and ozone … can detrimentally impact upon biodiversity. Changes in land use and climate, pollution, habitat degradation and … use of biological diversity; the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded ecosystems; the recovery of …

… will inevitably involve trade-offs among the different land-use types, each of which provides a different mix of … managed landscapes, where agriculture is often a major land use. Ecosystem services, however, can often highlight … There could be a whole lot of different competing land uses that would compromise a sustainable supply of …

… 2. Rights to use, manage and benefit from land and environmental resources .................1 Ecosystem … Rights to manage land and use … or more sellers who undertake to carry out a particular land use on a continuous basis, which will generate the … services, as well as requiring the maintenance and restoration of ecosystem services in the course of carrying …

… 19 4.5 Land-use planning and land ownership ................................. 21 4.6 Urban … including legislation on forestry, the environment, land-use planning, watershed protection and erosion control. … of soil, improvement of the groundwater situation and the restoration of watercourses. Once again, environmental …

… #7. Allaway, J., & Cox, P. (1989). 'Forests and competing land uses in Kenya', Environmental Management 13 (2):171-187 … Kenya are under heavy pressure from competing agricultural land uses and from unsustainable cutting. The problem is … Management in Mitigating Climate Impacts: Mangrove Restoration in Vietnam. Working Paper GEC 96-06, Centre for …

… management in diverse areas including freshwater and land resource management, the conservation and sustainable … requirements and emissions of pollutants to air, water and land. The extent of these changes will depend on, among other … of the second biggest category, environmental clean up and restoration as a consequence of coal mining, is expected to …