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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 …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… requires different skills and technologies to wider, more landscape based soil water storage that may benefit livestock … access to and management of pastures across the landscape. Development of water infrastructure is based on … planning of water development that is compatible with landscape-scale rangeland management. There have been efforts …
The Tacaná Watersheds - Developing untapped potential: Strengthening resilience through cross-sectoral collaboration
… and deforestation has reduced the capacity of the landscape to retain water. The resultant increase in the … Deforestation reducing the water retention capacity of the landscape • Reforestation with native tree species enabling … and communications, adoption of an integrated approach to landscape management, and reaching out to higher level …
GEO yearbook 2003
… industrial, and residential buildings covered the landscape and resulted in the conversion of prime … and rewarding farmers for being managers of Europe’s landscape and environment, rather than just food producers. … Resource Mapping: Focusing on Women’s Spaces in the Landscape. Cultural Survival Quarterly, 18, 4, 62-8 Saksena, …
Flow : The essentials of environmental flows
… and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, landscape and historical monuments or other physical … component. Wetlands are described as the ‘kidneys’ of the landscape because of the functions they perform in hydrologic … the water law recognises aquatic ecosystems as fundamental landscape resource units supp- lying water and associated …
The Joensuu negotiation: A mulitlateral simulation exercise: The UN Framework Convention on Transboundary Aquifers
… of Eastern Finland, in Joensuu, Finland where the landscape is dominated by forests, lakes and rivers. The … and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, landscape and structures, and socio-eco- nomic conditions … collection of good practices and lessons learned.53 7 The landscape of cooperation in the pan-European region and the …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… are a constituent part of the ecosystem and the natural landscape, and their protection shall be stipulated by the … to reduce usage; (5) Retrofit programs; (6) Efficiency in landscape design and irrigation techniques; (7) Wastewater …