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Global Land Outlook

… 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 Convention to … The Scientific Conceptual Framework for Land Degradation Neutrality ANNEX TWO 320 Mapping Land Productivity Dynamics: …
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Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management

… rights and governance for dryland water resources and land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Establish … densities of the drylands and as a result face particular degradation challenges. • Where potential evapotranspiration … and practice. The UNCCD targets for Land Degradation Neutrality (to be detailed at the country level) could be …
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Negotiate: reaching agreement over water

… known as a ‘fugitive’ resource: that means that – unlike land, food, trees, minerals or even people – when left alone … convinced that he and the Secretariat had lost their neutrality. They therefore excluded the Secretariat from … activity and culture that do not lead to environmental degradation, especially avoiding the long-term depletion of …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… in major aquifers, reducing stream flows and causing the degradation of ripar- ian and wetland ecosystems. The … 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 …
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The Tacaná Watersheds - Developing untapped potential: Strengthening resilience through cross-sectoral collaboration

… hurricanes as well as volcanic activity. Deforestation and degradation of the upper watersheds and of river banks has … soils that originate from volcanic sand rocks. Unregulated land use change is especially damaging in steep catchments … rates, very high population growth, and a complex land tenure rights situation. Unlike other places in …
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Share - Managing water across boundaries

… risks of conflict, overutilization and further ecosystem degradation. Basins, rather than boundaries, define the best … the coordinated devel- opment and management of water, land, and related resources at the river basin level – are … are simply not separable. Cooperation in the management of land and water within a basin ecosystem brings benefits to …
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Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application

… (13) establishes that a river basin refers to the area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a sequence … 2 (15) defines the river basin district as the area of land and sea made up of one or more neighbouring river … and joint actions for the management of ecosystems degradation. Collaboration is articulated in framework …
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Water-related conflict and security in Southern Africa: The SADC Protocol on shared watercourses

… Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in Joensuu, Fin- land. The papers compiled in this volume of the Review are … the other, military action itself causes en- vironmental degradation.6 Since the end of the Cold War, discussions … Tuula Honkonen and capacity, but are required to maintain neutrality on issues where there is a divergence of views …
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The Joensuu negotiation: A mulitlateral simulation exercise: The UN Framework Convention on Transboundary Aquifers

… Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in Joensuu, Fin- land. The papers compiled in this volume of the Review are … the other, military action itself causes en- vironmental degradation.6 Since the end of the Cold War, discussions … Tuula Honkonen and capacity, but are required to maintain neutrality on issues where there is a divergence of views …
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International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review 2014

… Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in Joensuu, Fin- land. The papers compiled in this volume of the Review are … the other, military action itself causes en- vironmental degradation.6 Since the end of the Cold War, discussions … Tuula Honkonen and capacity, but are required to maintain neutrality on issues where there is a divergence of views …
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