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… be to protect and restore ecosystems that provide critical land and water resources and services. Ongoing degradation of water and land resources threatens the continued production of goods … and community sharing of resources to public relief, rehabilitation and insurance. • Bear the losses: accepting …

… shall be safeguarded. 3. All areas of the earth, both land and sea, shall be subject to these principles of … species. 4. Ecosystems and organisms, as well as the land, marine and atmospheric resources that are utilized by …

… approach as “a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation … in the sustainable management of natural resources [18]. Land uSe conFLIctS In some cases, implementing EbA may … flood retention measures), which can restrict traditional land use and can result in the loss of productive land. Such …

… a number of conventions dealing with matters related to land degradation, desertification and/or drought, such as the … focusing specifically on the problem of desertification, land degradation and drought is the United Nations Convention … desertification and the effects of drought, including rehabilitation of degraded lands. …

… as resulting not only from drought but from land degradation linked to loss of natural vegetation … riches. According to the views of many indigenous peoples, land should not be torn open and exploited, which they … Jose Bartolome et al., “Displacement, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Reparation and Development,” prepared for the …

… our planet by a greater population, by climate change, and land degradation. �e work of the Parties will need to … degrees Celsius warming and combating desertification and land degradation. However, reaching these joint objectives … crop varieties (Target 13) and the greater use and rehabilitation of ecological processes at the landscape level …

… nature conservation, pollution control and abatement, and land use. Certainly until recently it has not been the … by humankind: the demands which its people place upon the land for food, timber, minerals, water supplies, building … recrea- tional zones and so forth, as well as ensuring the rehabilitation of degraded areas and the preservation of …

… West Asia occupy only 1.34 per cent of West Asia’s total land area (Global Environment Outlook – GEO-4, 2007)5 but … dominated by limited water resources, a scarcity of arable land, fragile ecosystems and episodic droughts. The … agriculture systems and the cultivation of marginal land to meet population needs. This has resulted in an …

… and include: a) direct threats, including drainage and land conversion, excavation, burning, over- grazing, … can occur as a human-made wetland type, under 3 (irrigated land, including irrigation channels and rice fields), and 4 (seasonally flooded agricultural land, including intensively managed or grazed wet meadow or …

… world; RECOGNISING that peatlands occupy 3% of the Earth’s land surface area yet store more carbon than all the world’s … 'guidance for climate change mitigation by conservation, rehabilitation and sustainable use of peatlands' and the …