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Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values

… East. Her work focuses on landscape stewardship, private land con- servation, and community involvement in protected … V Task Force of WCPA. He has written and lectured on land- scape and now serves on the boards of several major … and Seascapes – are defined by IUCN as areas “of land, with coasts and seas as appropriate, where the …
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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… and Institutions 62 5.2.3 Poorly-adapted Legal Regimes for Land Tenure and Resource Use 64 5.2.4 Jurisdictional and … 180 13 Integrating Wetland Conservation and Wise Use into Land-use Planning 183 Box 2. Wetlands and Regional Planning … Mechanisms to Promote Wetland Stewardship on Private Land 253 20.2.1 Management Agreements 253 20.2.2 Conservation …
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Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening

… 19 4.5 Land-use planning and land ownership ................................. 21 4.6 Urban … including legislation on forestry, the environment, land-use planning, watershed protection and erosion control. … the preamble or the objectives' provisions Long-term land-use planning and stakeholder participation are key …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… DIHR Danish Institute for Human Rights DLA Department of Land Affairs (South Africa) DNPWC Department of National … interest in social processes that shape patterns of land use. Before joining WCS he was the Monitoring and … ecologist whose research has focused on indigenous people, land use and conservation, including co-managed protected …
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The UNCCD: Laying the groundwork for future security (2014-2015)

… we face are complex. But by better implementing good land management practices, we can simultaneously help … and secure sustainable agricultural and energy production. Land truly is the glue that holds our societies together. Reversing the effects of land degradation and desertification through sustainable land
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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 …
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Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines

… The most common causes of forest fires are human-induced: land clearing (especially for shifting cultivation, other … Fire management is the discipline of using fire to achieve land management and traditional use objectives, together with … useful in preventing forest fires and satisfying other land use objectives. Legislation can therefore clarify that …
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Modern water rights : Theory and practice

… 4 2.2. Traditional land-based approaches to water rights … 20 3.1. Ill-adaption of traditional land based approaches to specific climatic conditions … 21 3.2. The inadequacies of traditional land based approaches ............................. 22 3.3. … water - water rights - have traditionally been linked to land tenure rights and in particular to land ownership …
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The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… of case studies 27 IndIgenous peoples 27 Power on this land; managing sacred sites at Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area, Northeast Arnhem Land, Australia Bas Verschuuren, Mawalan II Marika and Phil … South Korea Kyung-Koo Han 89 Solovetsky Islands: a holy land surrounded by the Arctic Ocean, Russian Federation …
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FAO's work on Climate Change

… Climate change will bring further extreme weather events, land degradation and desertification, water scarcity, rising … addressing climate change, the health of the oceans, land degradation, social inclusion, education, and gender … give back what it has taken – such as restoring degraded land and overexploited natural resources to maintain …
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