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The Role of legal instruments to support Green low-emission and climate-resilient development - A guidebook on assessing, selecting and implementing legal instruments
… Support for Feed-in Tariffs and Related Price and Market-Access Instruments’, November 2012, available at: … carbon- resilient future? How does this particular land use law enable or hinder the imple- mentation of Green … farm forestry on at least 10 percent of all agricultural land, contain provisions on enforcement measures and …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… 28 Chapter 3 Land degradation and desertification in Western PRC … 31 3.2 Definition of land degradation and desertification … land tenure; land-use rights; gender rights and market access; compensation measures for grassland closure; and 21 … a conflict or disagreement between parties, generally over access, or a perceived right of access, to natural resources …
Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and another dealing with access and benefit sharing (ABS), implemented by the Deutsche … . . . 99 Figures Figure 1.1a Observed global mean combined land and ocean surface temperature anomalies (defined as a … Protected areas are now a mainstream part of planning on land and sea, growing dramatically in extent in recent …
Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security
… Approach - a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that places human needs at … OF WELL-BEING Security • Personal safety • Secure resource access • Security from disasters Basic material for good life … goods than can be sustained, such as overfishing; - land use and land cover changes, or changes to habitats due …
Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation
… 3 Box 1.1 Definitions Protected Area An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and … 1994a). Transboundary Protected Area (TBPA) An area of land and/or sea that straddles one or more boundaries between … (iv) Preventing and/or resolving tension, including over access to natural resources; (v) Promoting the resolution of …
Safeguarding the contribution of wild living resources and ecosystems to food security
… that food security depends on the availability, access to and utilization of food, as well as the stability … 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 …
Water Management and Stewardship
… 76 4.7 Land … taking stock of corporate water behaviour Discussion Paper land management. For water stewardship to work, private … resources where water is already heavily abstracted and access to water is keenly contested. In these situations … to consider the cases where trade-offs in water allocation/access are necessary. Recognising that there can be a tension …
Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… important provisions dealing with financial support, access to and transfer of technology and capacity building to … mechanism, and the elaboration of rules on permissible land-use, land- use change and forestry (“LULUCF”). The Marrakesh …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 9 Case Studies of Linkages in Land-use Planning and Conservation . . . . . . . . 177 … they are insufficient in scale and number – either on the land or in the sea – to significantly address this gap in … extensively referenced throughout to provide readers with access to the source literature for examples and case …
The Tacaná Watersheds - Developing untapped potential: Strengthening resilience through cross-sectoral collaboration
… 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 … with rehabilitation of the irrigation system improving access to food and employment Sustainable infrastructure & …