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… and climate monitoring to fisheries management, coastal restoration and supporting marine commerce, NOAA’s products … Maria Carnevale, State of Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources; Andy Collins, NOAA Office of … Blue Ventures; Randall W. Kennedy, Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural xvii XVIII Large-Scale Marine Protected …

… in the sea to celebrate the pro- tection for the waters, land, and people of this region. Sometimes the sacred value …

… relate to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change land-use subcategories 8 3. Methods used for FREL/FRL … of carbon dioxide equivalent per year L litter LULUCF land use, land-use change and forestry m metre(s) MRV … forest countries (by forest area, deforestation rate or restoration potential) have included forest-related …

… a lack of access to production inputs, support services, land, facilities and decision-making processes over the … manage carefully the expansion of industrial agricultural land in such a way as to avoid compromising the integrity of …

… of interest and choose from pre-selected scenarios (e.g. land use and climate change) or design their own. SolVES is … areas are increasingly lost or degraded (e.g. through land conversion for agriculture). Being able to understand … management of new protected areas may result in the restoration of ES that have previously been degraded or lost. …

… Professor and Vice Head of Institute, Contaminated Land Management, University of Natural Resources and Applied … Initiatives 12 1.4 Policy and Legal Issues Associated with Land Acquisition 12 1.5 Permissible Levels of POPs in the … remediating a POP-contaminated site, reuse of the land and restoration of the natural environment must be taken into …

… presented by the natural environment. The term “cultural land- scape” embraces a diversity of manifestations of the … often reflecting specific techniques of sustain- able land use or a specific spir- itual relationship with nature. … International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), advising on …

… a number of conventions dealing with matters related to land degradation, desertification and/or drought, such as the … focusing specifically on the problem of desertification, land degradation and drought is the United Nations Convention … objectives that relate to the integrated development of land, control of soil erosion, deforestation, reclamation of …

… of adverse effects, followed by minimisation, followed by restoration and, if required, the compensation or offsetting … 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 …

… rewards for enhancing carbon storage through forest restoration, rehabilitation and afforestation/ reforestation … which a well-defined environmental service (ES) or form of land use likely to secure that service is bought by at least … 2). The IUCN adopts a broader definition: “an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and …