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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… trade-offs between conservation and development at the landscape scale’. Prior to joining CIFOR, Terry was based in … being addressed),• level of implementation (local, landscape, national, international),• geographic region,• … that RBAs can protect the interests of poor communities in landscape conservation, but only if certain preconditions are …
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Improving governance of pastoral lands

… use mobility to optimize their use of resources across the landscape and to avoid degradation (IUCN, 2011a). There are a … pasture is dry. Water is irregularly distributed over the landscape and this can dictate livestock management. Although … a complex web of rights over different resources within a landscape, sometimes asserting these rights infrequently. As …
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Solutions in focus: Transboundary protected area solutions

… It provides the transboundary improvement of nature and landscape quality by connecting and valorizing habitats. An … governmental conservation groups, coordinated cross-border landscape protection measures. Through workshops, forestry … biotopes The project included transboundary nature and landscape management measures to improve habitats and the …
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Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case

… 29 4.2.5 Federal Law for the Protection of Nature and Landscape in Switzerland 31 4.2.6 No net loss of fisheries … nonetheless delivers functioning ecosystem services and a landscape and species mixture similar to the pre-project … optimise the results in the context of the surrounding landscape. What is the opportunity cost of sticking to 100% …
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Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report

… 67 4.2.4 Benelux Convention on Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection 67 4.2.5 Convention for the Protection … • Soil is a fundamental element of nature and landscape. • Soil is part of the ecological balance, … and cultural heritage, forming an essential part of the landscape in which humans live, and concealing …
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Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security

… strategy with multiple concrete benefits from farm to landscape level. Sources: FAO, Rome, Mr Luis Alvarez Welchez, … • Developing a participatory planning process to design landscape patterns resilient to fire, and prevent land use … opportunities to help adopt fire resilient land uses and landscape patterns (i.e. innovative management systems, …
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Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector: Regulatory tools.

… The Programme’s objec- tive is that business practices at landscape and seascape levels are transformed to generate … each habitat block, based on how widespread it is in the landscape, the intrinsic biodiversity value of the habitat, … How widespread is the habitat in the surrounding landscape? What is the intrinsic biodiversity value of the …
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International Aspects of Implementation

… Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda in the Virunga landscape. In a bid to save this close cousin of man, the three countries cooperate in management of the Virunga Landscape which straddles the three countries. The three … to increase the Mountain Gorilla population in the Virunga Landscape from 380 in 2003 to 480 in 2010. This has been …
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International environmental governance: An international regime for protected areas

… resources. 6.3 Relationships of protected areas with the landscape Early on, requirements to protect protected areas … linkages between core areas in the protected area and the landscape, including ecological corridors. Another step has … park” can be traced back as far as 1832, when American landscape painter George Catlin, con cerned about the …
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FAO's work on Climate Change

… and poverty alleviation in the region. Forest and landscape restoration Restoring degraded forest and other … the SDGs and the Paris Agreement. FAO’s Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism has shown results in three … learned. It also takes into account the changes in the landscape of international climate action since the original …
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