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… 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 … Desertification (UNCCD) is to combat desertification and land degradation, and to mitigate the effects of drought in …

… 2. Valuing and Managing Watershed Services 21 2.1 Linking land and water use to downstream benefits 21 2.2 Valuation of … units for water management A watershed is the area of land that feeds water into a river, through the process of … downstream water users. Providing incen- tives by paying land and water managers to maintain watershed services is an …

… rights and governance for dryland water resources and land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Establish … of dealing with aridity and variability. This includes land management practices, such as cultivating … is 5 times greater than actual mean precipitation (AI=0.2) land is classified as Arid and these areas include annual …

… distributed surface water collecting or falling on private land; • groundwater percolating through land. Arid conditions, comparable to South Africa, and the … immediate effects of which appear to be confined to one land owner, but also reflects uncertainty about what common …

… that recognizes the interlinkages—for example, between land and water, agriculture and water, technology and water, … voluntary measures, market and information-based tools, land-use management and cost recovery of water services, … resources embracing water resources, forest resources, land use, biological communities and mineral resources. The …

… permits held. catchment (watershed): a discrete area of land with a common drainage system; includes both the water bodies that convey the water and the land surface from which water drains into those bodies. club … discharge. Glossary xiv riparian rights: the rights of land owners to access and use the water that borders their …

… unwanted impacts on others. Zoning is used to ensure that land uses are compatible with protection of vulnerable … to extract groundwater, mechanisms to control pollution, land-use zoning and the means of enforcing rules through the … for ecosystem services can be used to reward farmers and land managers for protecting groundwater recharge zones. …

… and species, freshwater and forests, and freshwater and land uses and soils. This is why relevant instruments on … assist the Contracting Parties to minimise the impacts of land-use projects on wetlands and their biodiversity; n … sedimentation in the Lake, such as deforestation, land degradation and the destruction of wetlands. The …

… and disadvantages of different choices in uses of land, water, resources or investments. Applying a simple … up the relative desirability of alternative uses of funds, land and resources. Chapter 4 identifies techniques for … the ecosystem in question – as well as to the alternative land use to which one is comparing it.7 However, it is …

… of micro- and macro-policy issues in- fluencing water and land use, and represents one of the major global challenges … on the resource. These may include: ■■ The impact of land use / land management which has a direct impact on both groundwater …