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Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts

… 11 hydrocarbons are often more energy, water and land intensive. Exploitation of tar sands is one such example (see … affected by shifts in energy systems, e.g. towards more intensive cropping for bio-fuels, may not be able to provide …
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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines

… economy penetrate areas formerly considered remote, as farming becomes ever more industrialized, and as urban and … for Tijuca’s joint management. Its rationale was that intensive public use, watershed protection and national … resources and notes: See page 48. Natural areas and intensive development co-exist on Hong Kong Island. A view …
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Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2011 - More case studies from around the globe

… the historical integrity of the park by allowing cattle farming in Abrams Creek headwaters resulting in sediment … lessons learned Release of black mud turtles requires more intensive monitoring, either using large scale investment in radio tracking or very intensive observation and searching, requiring a large labor …
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Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks

… at the local level as a way of supporting extensive farming practices. Since 1995, the development of the Pan- … ecological impacts are being exacerbated by exceptionally intensive agricultural practices – despite its small size, … these two areas, the Banisveld has for 40 years been an intensive dairy farm of low bio- diversity and landscape …
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Community - based incentives for nature conservation

… households in the division depend on mixed smallholder farming, Kibwezi is an agriculturally marginal area. Only a … farms. Natural woodlands form an important part of local farming systems. As well as providing soil and water … of the 1970s and 1980s Mount Kenya forest was subject to intensive exploitation as both the level and the scope of …
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Handbook 4: Avian influenza and wetlands

… use of wetlands, 4th edition 40 ii) small sites located in intensive agricultural landscapes or densely populated rural … the risks of HPAI infection on site, among which are: i) intensive poultry farming (chickens, turkeys, quail, ducks and geese); ii) …
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Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual

… together with factors specific to wildlife, such as, intensive conservation management of wildlife, effects of … populations than wild populations, particularly in intensive systems, due to the nature of managing high … and global movement of domestic animals for trade and farming can help to spread disease and also introduce novel …
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Assessing forest landscape restoration opportunities at the national level: A guide to the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

… Permanent pastureDegraded lands Protected primary forest Intensive agriculture land WIDE-SCALE RESTORATION WIDE-SCALE … evergreen agriculture) and generally contribute to carbon-intensive land stewardship. Forest landscape restoration … and timber has been found in Rwanda highlands. • Contract farming is having some success, which supports aggregation, …
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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… floodplains are drained and subsequently irrigated for intensive arable cultivation. Under some laws, the grant of … through fisheries, cattle herding and recession culture farming on the wet nutrient-rich riverbanks. The middle … land use. By 1985, the drainage of available wetlands for intensive agriculture was estimated at 27% for Asia, 6% for …
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Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… damage (e.g. assisted evolution of corals and/or coral farming); and adapting (e.g. economic activities … benefits: statistical downscaling is less computationally intensive (i.e. faster and cheaper) than dynamical … more extensive as well as intensive in today’s ocean if anthropogenic influences …
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