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Assessing the international forest regime

… at the national and regional levels, particularly in the arid zones of Africa. The Convention relates to forests … a restricted core of protected land surrounded by a buffer zone in which economic activity is allowed but is regulated … Convention No. 107 on Indigenous and Other Tribal and Semi-Tribal Populations was adopted in 1957; it has been …
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Sustainably Investing in Rangelands - Jordan

… Information Systems REEZ Rangeland Ecological Economic Zone GIZ German International Cooperation ROWA Regional … in Jordan The rangelands in Jordan are found in the arid (< 200 mm/yr) and semi-arid (200 – 500 mm/yr) Agro-ecological Zones of Jordan: …
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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas

… supply – most notably providing 80-100% of freshwater in arid and semi-arid regions of the tropics and sub-tropics, but also a … in the indigenous ethnic groups. In the Guatemalan zone, productive activities focus on basic food crops such as …
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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… replenishment of groundwater supply in the saturated zone, or addition of water to groundwater storage by natural … in the root area or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs and … groundwater discharge. However, many lakes, especially in arid regions, become saline because the high rate of …
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Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security

… include protection of ecosystems (e.g. Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Integrated Water Resources Management, and … such as floods, provide resilience against drought in arid and semi-arid areas, and contribute to wider strategies aimed at …
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Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)

… 2015) The Yellow Sea is a shallow (mean depth c. 45 m), semi-enclosed sea with surrounding geography varying from … on Coolibah – Black Box Woodland, an ecosystem on a semi-arid floodplain in eastern Australia (Keith et al., 2009). In … Rowling, R.W. (2000). ‘Effects of livestock on riparian zone vegetation in an Australian dryland river’. Regulated …
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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… on vegetation history and climate, with restoration in arid areas being more challenging. What are protected areas? … al., 1999). To expand an existing protected area or buffer zone to a protected area In Queensland, Australia, the … drylands in the Middle East Global drylands—as arid and semi-arid lands are often called—support a third of the …
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Collaboration for resilience: How collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st century

… From the 1950s to the 1980s, woodlands were cleared in semi-arid Shinyanga Region, north-west Tanzania to eradicate …
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Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation

… growth, loss of tropical forests and desertification of arid lands, often seem outside the scope of individual or … are large fragments. In small fragments, the disturbed zone (stippled) may extend throughout most or all of the … a large part of the landscape will remain in a natural or semi-natural form; • the species or communities of concern …
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CITES and CBNRM. Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”

… Expert Group AMA Adaptive Management Approach ASAL Arid and Semi-Arid Lands AWF African Wildlife Foundation BfN German … DFID East Cameroon: establishment of a Community Hunting Zone that realistically reflects its existing hunting …
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