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Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action

… reduction of the impact of chemicals and prevention of land degradation, while generating sustainable livelihoods. … priorities, formal and informal protected areas and land uses in South Africa 87 Figure 13 Overlaps between … forces, and much of the conservation legal and customary tenure (for example who holds the legal or customary rights …
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Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?

… recognition of sustainable pastoralism as a viable land management option for the world’s rangelands. vi vii … natural capital across a quarter of the world’s land area, although in many developing countries this … development policies have often weakened traditional land tenure and natural resource governance systems and restricted …
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World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes

… Chapter 5: Implementing a wilderness and large land and seascapes approach under the Convention … (SCBD 2014), were sobering: although more of the planet’s land and sea is under conservation management than ever … this document, in many cases, wilderness areas, and secure tenure rights to wilderness areas, also help maintain …
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Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters

… chances of succeeding. For example, gender equality in tenure rights will allow women and men to have equal rights in access to and ownership of land. In order to reach gender equality, in most settings … already existing gender-unequal governance systems around land, natural resources and economic planning; l Land and …
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Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles

… and institutional system to approve CDM AR projects 47 4. Land rights issues, title to carbon and the nature of CERs 49 … particular legal issues. These issues mainly centre around land tenure, land use rights and the subsequent ownership of cer- …
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National Blue Carbon Policy Assessment Madagascar

… INDC Intended Nationally Determined Contribution LULUCF Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry MAP Madagascar Action Plan MECIE … their size has been substantially increased. During the tenure of President Marc Ravalomanana (2002-2009) in …
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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”

… across other high priority issues such as climate change, land degradation, hazardous chemicals and wastes and ozone … natural resources by providing communities with adequate tenure (Hulme and Murphree 2001), or the debate whether CBNRM … can detrimentally impact upon biodiversity. Changes in land use and climate, pollution, habitat degradation and …
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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 … including governance, policy and legal frameworks, and tenure. HONDURAS Cattle grazing in Lempira Department, where …
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Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report

… benefits are not only monetary: 4.2. Security of tenure 4.3. Site-specific, decentralised management, with … whether this order has really affected the powerful and land hungry encroachers, it has created absolute havoc in the … because of their names having not entered the official land records for no fault of theirs"6 “Establishment of a …
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Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper

… and top-down strategies 47 3.2.4 The role of NGOs 49 3.2.5 Land tenure factors 50 3.2.6 Choosing instruments 51 Key messages … protection of environmental flows 103 Key messages 104 3.2 Land Use Planning Legislation 105 Introduction 105 3.2.1 …
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