This paper addresses the issue of sustainable land use from two perspectives. First, a substantive and methodological discussion of sustainable development and related environmental security in the context of land use planning is offered. Second, an empirical case study on various land use options of the Po Delta area in Italy is dealt with, in which conflict resolution is analyzed by means of the use of multicriteria analysis (in particular, the regime method).

This Act, consisting of 136 sections divided into thirteen Parts and completed by eight Schedules, establishes the requirements to manage Crown land within the territory of New South Wales.

...According to the 2016 Climate Risk Index, Myanmar is the second-most-vulnerable country in the world to the effects of climate change. Joern Kristensen, director of the Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID), has experienced firsthand how new weather patterns are putting farmers under stress. His organisation runs a climate adaptation project in the highland areas of Nyaungshwe and Kalaw in Shan State. “What we can see there is, while precipitation has been more or less the same for the past 20 years, the rainy season has become shorter.

Durante el siglo pasado, la deforestación de las valiosas selvas tropicales del mundo ha sido un factor primordial en los crecientes problemas del cambio climático, poniendo en peligro el futuro del planeta. En la selva amazónica, la mala gestión de los recursos y las prácticas agrícolas insostenibles han sido los principales impulsores de la rápida progresión de la frontera agrícola, lo que dio lugar a un despeje sin precedentes de la selva tropical para dar paso a más agricultura y reducir constantemente la selva tropical.

Le présent arrêté définit les régions concernées par les dispositions d'autorisation préalable au retournement ou de reconversion de prairies permanentes suite à la dégradation de leur ratio annuel de prairies permanentes relatives au paiement pour les pratiques agricoles bénéfiques pour le climat et l'environnement dit « paiement vert » prévu par la politique agricole commune.

Forests at the tropical Valley of the Apurimac and Ene rivers (VRAE), the second coca-growing region of Peru, are public common resources and nevertheless privately managed mainly by coca farmers, without effective State control of such use. The need for survival of the coca farmers, their chrematistic perception of the forest, the cultivation of cocoa (theobroma cacao) and land availability are crucial factors influencing the rates of deforestation of primary and secondary forest. Variables such as the legality of land tenure seem to have no influence.

Our work is regarding the analysis of land use changes, in the light of “saving soil” against the expansion due to unearned plus value of land: The loss of natural and agricultural surface in front of the expanding urban environment is a critical aspect of unsustainability of urban development, especially in the way it was carried out in the past decades.

La causa última de los incendios de miles de hectáreas en Córdoba (producto, entre otras circunstancias, de una deficitaria ley provincial de bosques) y la exigencia social de una instancia plebiscitaria sobre la instalación de la planta de Monsanto en Malvinas Argentinas, ampliaron a toda la ciudadanía una discusión sobre el modelo productivo y sus consecuencia socio-ambientales que, sobre todo en Córdoba, tiene muchos años de lucha y muchos sujetos sociales en cuestión.

Article 14 shall be amended to add the following wording: ““Proclamation of natural complexes and sites nature monuments and areas where they are located protected areas shall be performed by decision of Regional Government. In case of necessity the respective land arear and waterbodies can be expropriated for state need in accordance with the modalities envisaged by civil, land and water legislation”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 60-ZS “On protected areas”. (2009-04-06)

The study’s findings offer the most compelling quantitative evidence to date of the unparalleled role that forest peoples have to play in climate change mitigation, reinforcing the critical importance of collective tenure security for the sustainable use and protection of the world’s tropical forests and the carbon they sequester.

This publication is the result of the workshop on “Responding to Climate Change and Tenure Insecurity in Small Island Developing States – The Role of Land Professionals” held in Christchurch, New Zealand 30 April – 1 May 2016 in connection with the FIG Working Week 2016. It includes a report of the seminar and a FIG Christchurch Declaration as the main outcome of the workshop.