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… The most common causes of forest fires are human-induced: land clearing (especially for shifting cultivation, other … Fire management is the discipline of using fire to achieve land management and traditional use objectives, together with … useful in preventing forest fires and satisfying other land use objectives. Legislation can therefore clarify that …

… 4 2.2. Traditional land-based approaches to water rights … 20 3.1. Ill-adaption of traditional land based approaches to specific climatic conditions … 21 3.2. The inadequacies of traditional land based approaches ............................. 22 3.3. … water - water rights - have traditionally been linked to land tenure rights and in particular to land ownership …

… of case studies 27 IndIgenous peoples 27 Power on this land; managing sacred sites at Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area, Northeast Arnhem Land, Australia Bas Verschuuren, Mawalan II Marika and Phil … South Korea Kyung-Koo Han 89 Solovetsky Islands: a holy land surrounded by the Arctic Ocean, Russian Federation …

… 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 … give back what it has taken – such as restoring degraded land and overexploited natural resources to maintain …

… distributed surface water collecting or falling on private land; • groundwater percolating through land. Arid conditions, comparable to South Africa, and the … immediate effects of which appear to be confined to one land owner, but also reflects uncertainty about what common …

… of Lombok, Indonesia 14 Mountains: 24% of the Earth’s Land Surface WCF Theme 3: Biodiversity Loss and Species … areas – global priorities Mountains cover 24% of the land surface of our planet (see page 14). These very diverse … may necessitate the payment of incentives to upstream land managers (see pages 6 and 23). Most centres of greatest …

… Lee Ellen Carter How protection took the beauty from the land: conflicting values and meanings of Lake Mburo National … other ways. We explained too that, while the Protected Land- scapes Task Force had begun to document these values1, … the publication of this series on the values of Protected Land- scapes and Seascapes, in which each volume will explore …

… 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 incompatible land uses in The Philippines 88 Figure 14 Key Biodiversity …

… ensure local confidence about continued access to land and encourage investment of labour and resources; from the Andaman coast of Thailand, where negotiated land use has benefitted communities and acted as a ‘policy … from the Miyun watershed in China, where negotiated land- use changes have encouraged local people to become …

… from The Christensen Fund, LTS International, The Sacred Land Film Project, UNESCO and WWF International. Published … the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, are asked to respect … a Sacred Gift for a Living Planet . . . . . . 33 3. Sacred land zoning in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …