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Implementing Sustainable Bioenergy Production. A Compilation of Tools and Approaches
… icu l tura l approaches such as ecoagriculture and organic farming that improve the overall productivity and … on forest landscapes as feedstock sources. Whilst intensive forest monocultures are still common, attempts to …
Technical guidelines on hazardous wastes: physico-chemical treatment (d9) and biological treatment (d8)
… Land application/treatment/farming … High levels of manpower required. Adverse Factors Labour intensive. In the hazardous waste separation context, … a hazardous waste context. Manual methods will be labour intensive. Adverse Factors Production of dust, which with a …
Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases
… to its land for irrigated floricultural and horticultural farming and water storage reservoirs thereby extinguishing … 3,349,500 for environmental damage. In May 1992, after intensive negotiations supervised by the District Court, the … and the impairment to Kai Itakitanga. The proposal was too intensive and would have had too great an effect on the …
Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… is mainly engaged in tourism, forestry and low intensity farming. On both sides of the border, there are great … Environment for People in the Dinaric Arc project, more intensive dialogue has been established for building a … Potential threats to conservation include: uncontrolled intensive sand and gravel excavation, Illegal waste disposal, …
Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… intact mangroves is 70% greater than revenues from shrimp farming and aquaculture on lands cleared of mangroves … one, or it may be a highly complex and computationally intensive computer simulation model. • A range of management … a high degree of expertise, and is costly and labour intensive. It is most likely to be used when there is high …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… contribute to undermining human rights (Large-scale shrimp farming threatens subsistence of coastal communities) Adapted … and Epal-Ratjen 2004, p. 44-45 and EJF 2003 Shrimp farming in Latin American and Asian countries has greatly … Here, the much longer period of colonisation and more intensive settlement has greatly constrained the ‘waste …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… xv xiv xv This book constitutes the final summation of an intensive period of work.1 Its general goal, to provide … that arose when the international community commenced intensive new negotiations that will reconfigure the world’s … Botswana, the majority of rural people practice livestock farming and subsistence agriculture. Often, land that is …
Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought
… all play a major role in the shift to less sustainable farming systems and currently there is insufficient policy … that include seasonal rest. In other cases however more intensive intervention is required, for example using heavy …