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Landscape conservation law. Present trends and perspectives in international and comparative law.
… nature conservation, pollution control and abatement, and land use. Certainly until recently it has not been the … by humankind: the demands which its people place upon the land for food, timber, minerals, water supplies, building land, tourism and recreation, transport systems and so forth …
The ecosystem approach: Five steps to implementation
… lowlands, Indonesian Papua Gill Shepherd 29. Explaining land use, highlands, Indonesian Papua Gill Shepherd 30. Jetty … Approach is a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation … the Ecosystem Approach 1. The objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal …
ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… CBD in 2000, states that the objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal … and sub- national policymakers, decision-makers and land-use planners. Principle 9 contains specific advice for … forest: [SFM is] the process of managing permanent forest land to achieve one or more clearly specified objectives of …
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 … consequences of these pressures need to be considered in land use decision making. A method for combining ecological …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… Chapter 5: Implementing a wilderness and large land and seascapes approach under the Convention … (SCBD 2014), were sobering: although more of the planet’s land and sea is under conservation management than ever … strategy must also include more large and intact areas of land and sea, including wilderness, before they vanish, and …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… decision-making and participation by local communities in land-use decisions. Participatory decision-making involves the willingness of outsiders to negotiate land-use objectives and ways to meet those objectives. The … are alarming.4 Although nearly 12 percent of the earth’s land area are now Protected Areas (IUCN 2003), net Po v e r t …
Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment
… Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land-based Sources. Consideration should be given to … approach is an approach for integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation … measured, include the following groupings: (i) changes in land use and land cover, (ii) fragmentation and isolation, …
Global Warming of 1.5°C - an IPPC special report on the impacts of global warming
… the global annual average is being experienced in many land regions and seasons, including two to three times higher in the Arctic. Warming is generally higher over land than over the ocean. (high confidence) {1.2.1, 1.2.2, … warming have already been observed (high confidence). Many land and ocean ecosystems and some of the services they …
Judicial handbook on environmental law
… live in fragile areas where they compete for water and land. In marine waters, nearly three-quarters of all … Consent 38 4.6 Environmental Impact Assessment 38 4.7 Land Use Regulation 40 4.7.1 National and international regulations 40 4.7.2 Land use regulations and property rights 40 Chapter 5. …