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… 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. …

… 3 1 Ownership of Land, Forest and Carbon … 15 1.2 Land and forest ownership and use rights … Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) poses a unique opportunity for the world … norms providing incentives for deforestation and forest degradation. By phasing such work in the coming years in …

… Protected areas now cover over 10 per cent of the world’s land surface and are increasing rapidly in marine areas as … managed. Unfortunately, the commitment to setting aside land and water has yet to be always matched with similar … effective management seeks to be pro-active in preventing degradation before it becomes severe. Recognising the sources …

… a number of factors that have contributed to environmental degradation, the foremost of which have been the economic … Richards P., Ecological Change and the Politics of African Land Use, African Studies Review, June 1983, pp. 1-59. - 3 - … not be understood in the limited sense of produce from the land, but should also encompass fishery and forestry …

… President Kennedy had pledged that the United States would land a man on the moon before the decade was out. As the … real and growing concern to them: polluted water supplies, degradation of agricultural lands, depletion of wildlife and … science which underpinned it but also for the political neutrality it demonstrated.”280 The results of this work were …

… spiritual value. Covering almost 12 percent of the world’s land surface, the global protected area system represents a … be a general term that can embrace a very wide range of land and water management types that incidentally have some … (although not as large as the mainly unplanned land degradation that has taken place over the same period). This …

… to bring some order into this rapidly developing use of land and water, IUCN The World Conservation Union developed a … to regulate activities 21 Interpreting or clarifying land tenure and governance 22 Use of the IUCN categories for … protected areas are under threat or are undergoing actual degradation, and thus a greater emphasis on the management …

… ongoing large-scale habitat destruction, forest loss and degradation, overexploitation and collapse of biological … within the CBD as “a strategy for integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conser- vation … of the decisions which most affect biodiversity, such as land-use decisions, is in its early stages (see e.g., …

… value to conservation: creating value for undeveloped land 20 4 Why biodiversity offsets? The regulatory case 21 … society should continue to trust them with access to the land and sea needed for their operations. Benefits to … A way to ensure better conservation outcomes by offsetting degradation of natural habitat of relatively low biodiversity …

… vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for … to each stage of the spiral (Figure 1). Environmental degradation and poor natural resources management have shown … promotes the sustainable use of ecosystems through better land use planning and development planning, however it …