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Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… that this project, in a post- conflict situation, supports rehabilitation and reintegration. Collaboration over borders … 1. Transboundary Protected Area is defined as “an area of land and/or sea that straddles one or more borders between … initiatives also help maintain or restore traditional land use practices. From an economic standpoint, …
Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… - lakes, ponds, rivers and coastal fringes - and any land which is regularly or intermittently covered or … and it is governments who, in various ways, control land use within their borders. It is therefore surprising how … integrating conservation and management; recovery and rehabilitation; and legislation. A book containing a …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… 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 …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… guidance to the financial mechanism; (b) mechanisms; (c) land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF); and (d) compliance, … a detailed document – its Desert Encroachment Control and Rehabilitation Programme – which was presented to the UN …
Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation
… Act of 2003 requires offsets for impacts that result in land-use change to forested areas. The recently enacted … 19), including undertaking projects that may affect their land, territory or resources including mining and other … or the safeguarding of essential user interests in land use, and has statues or regulations, documenting 137 …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… Lee Ellen Carter How protection took the beauty from the land: conflicting values and meanings of Lake Mburo National … other ways. We explained too that, while the Protected Land- scapes Task Force had begun to document these values1, … vary from community-appointed guards to managing an acacia rehabilitation programme (Hobbs et al. 1998). Besides direct …
A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… will inevitably involve trade-offs among the different land-use types, each of which provides a different mix of … managed landscapes, where agriculture is often a major land use. Ecosystem services, however, can often highlight … agroforests, secondary forest fallows, community forest rehabilitation and multiple-use forest management, have the …
Blue Carbon Policy Framework: Based on the discussion of the International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group
… National Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), the Land-Use, and some Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) activities including … ensure all intact Blue Carbon habitat is fully protected. Rehabilitation objectives should be introduced to restore …
Sustainable tourism in protected areas: Guidelines for planning and management
… in this work, and to the Department of Conservation and Land Management in Western Australia which similarly … of Regional Services in the Department of Conservation and Land Management in the same state before spending four years … techniques, and how recreation variables influence rehabilitation; 4. Areas where information is lacking, and a …
Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners
… Informed Consent (FPIC) before enacting projects on their land. This is in defence of their ancestral territories and … exhausted, there has been no thought to the state of the land in the aftermath of any of these interventions. Desert … rights. Remedies include: restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of …