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Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges
… List of Acronyms AFOLU Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use CAS Climate Adaptation Services CBD Convention on … REDD+ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation + RNRA Rwanda Natural Resources Authority ROAM … restoration approaches (Kumar et al.,2015), and addressing land tenure issues. Food security is addressed by the …
Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador
… 22 2�3 Land use planning for forests … 51 3�2�3 Land rights and tenure … Development Goals (MDGs). The challenge of reversing the degradation of ecosystems and alleviating poverty while … (PES) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). Both concepts were further researched as …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… of nature; • they were elitist, failing to consider the land rights and sophisticated resource management of … inertia. 10. Social inequalities and environmental degradation tend to lead to mutual reinforcement. Wealth, as … such as the right to access and cultivate a parcel of land. The attribution of certain individual possession rights …
Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India
… better livelihoods through conservation rather than from degradation of such resources. This is well articulated in … of India of ecosystems. For instance, when forest land is diverted or Afforestation (CA) over at least equal land area as the diverted forest land. In addition, a Net …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… 2.1 Degradation of ecosystem services and increased disaster … vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for … is defined as a “strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation …
Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)
… 50 5.3 Criterion C. Environmental degradation … Environment Institute) Habitat type. 'Spatially definable land or aquatic areas with characteristic environmental … types for national assessment; satellite- derived land types for subnational assessments. Rodríguez et al. …
Ecosystems protecting infrastructure and communities - Lessons learned and guidelines for implementation
… in Northern Region Droughts and floods Sustainable land management Involvement of communities in identifying … in Fatick Region Droughts and salinisation Sustainable land management Participatory and iterative approaches ensure … safety nets (Estrella and Saalismaa, 2013). With ecosystem degradation, however, for example land clearing and …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation TK Traditional Knowledge, which is a term for … to access TK or any other intended activity on their land, such as the establishment of a REDD project or a … rather an understanding of the self as integrated with the land and embedded within an ethical relationship. TK then is …
Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability
… in major aquifers, reducing stream flows and causing the degradation of ripar- ian and wetland ecosystems. The … unwanted impacts on others. Zoning is used to ensure that land uses are compatible with protection of vulnerable … to extract groundwater, mechanisms to control pollution, land-use zoning and the means of enforcing rules through the …