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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… systems to various forms of disturbance. Large-scale, landscape approaches to conservation have become common. The … use of local and traditional knowledge, and looking at landscape-scale issues in managing natural systems. Most … forests . . 17 Figure 4 Schematic depiction of a forest landscape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
Implementing Sustainable Bioenergy Production. A Compilation of Tools and Approaches
… economic benefits. Ecoagriculture Ecoagriculture is a landscape- management approach to agriculture that aims to achieve three goals at a landscape scale: • Sufficient agricultural productivity • … and local ecosystems, to identify broader synergies at the landscape scale. Ecoagriculture may include approaches such …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… American Wildlands (map page 35); The Terai Arc Landscape: Esther Blom (page 36 top), Wim Blom (page 36 … Corridor 32 North America: Y2Y 36 Nepal: the Terai Arc Landscape 40 The Netherlands: the Green Wood 44 Experience … be planned and managed as an integral part of the broader landscape. Ecological networks provide an operational model …
Global Land Outlook
… practices. Our ability to manage trade-offs at a landscape scale will ultimately decide the future of land … in the right place at the right scale: a multifunctional landscape approach advocates for more rational land use … and manage the land. Our ability to manage trade-offs at a landscape scale will ultimately decide the future of land …
Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… Landscape Restoration … many interpretations; for example, as an ecosystem, as a landscape, as an administrative or planning unit, and as a … and biodiversity), such as Sustainable Land Management, Landscape Restoration and/or rehabilitation, and … hungry people in the world by 12–17 percent (FAO, 2011). Landscape Restoration Ecological restoration is the process …
Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide
… Institute, Iceland. Back cover photo: Sustainable soil landscape, Attunga, NSW, Australia, Richard McEvoy, Newport, … to the natural environment, and for its conserva- tion, landscape, and aesthetic values”. Law that falls within the … spatial unit of land. It is synonymous with the term “soil landscape”. 120 Other recognised forms of soil mapping that …
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”
… forms of land-use around parks; promoting large landscape connectivity and creating a synergy that also … the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) in a human-dominated landscape outside protected areas. Animal Conservation … and 80% of the livestock; and in this human occupied landscape 65% of Kenya’s wildlife is found, with 40% in …
Biodiversity: My hotel in action - A guide to sustainable use of biological resources in the Caribbean
… and products suited to the seasons and transforming the landscape to make it more attractive for wildlife and people. … a century ago in the Neotropics and is now a part of the landscape. In Barbados, the Bahamas, Grand Cayman and South …
Aquaculture - site selection and site management
… detect the changes, but they also soon get used to the new landscape and/ or directly observe the positive or negative … how visible the cages are from the shore and what the landscape impacts are in the case of land installations. For … negative effects, such as the aesthetic degradation of the landscape, have often caused conflicts with other user of the …