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Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… 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 … Enterprise Works/VITA, Forest Trends and The Land Tenure Center. The contents are the responsibility of the …
CITES and CBNRM. Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”
… across other high priority issues such as climate change, land degradation, hazardous chemicals and wastes and ozone … natural resources by providing communities with adequate tenure (Hulme and Murphree 2001), or the debate whether CBNRM … can detrimentally impact upon biodiversity. Changes in land use and climate, pollution, habitat degradation and …
Community - based incentives for nature conservation
… 3.1 Livelihood and market incentives for sustainable land use in natural woodland areas of Kibwezi, … of natural resources for their day-to-day survival. A good land base, fertile soils, regular water supply and protection … to consider issues of local resource management, use and tenure. Agricultural and land use policies are an important …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… 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 … http://www.rightsandresources.org/ Supporting forest tenure, policy, and market reforms. RUAF Foundation …
Review of laws, policies and economic instruments related to payment for ecosystem services in Vietnam
… 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 … There is no Vietnamese equivalent for the English term “tenure”. So as to avoid misunderstanding or …
Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases
… #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 … agricultural input prices, household income levels, and tenure security affect deforestation — if at all — is …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… 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. … resources and addresses the consideration of land use, tenure patterns and local needs. The greening of appropriate …