In this study, land use changes between 1986-2001 in Bartın-Ulus-Asagıdere watershed area was determined. In order to determine the land use percentages in 1986, Forest Management plan has been taken into consideration. Land use data belonging to 2001 has been determined by making use of the…

The World Trade Organization (WTO) hailed the recent Hong Kong Sixth Ministerial Meeting last December 2005 as a positive movement towards the conclusion of the Doha Development Round. The round was supposedly geared towards ensuring that trade contributes to the development objectives of least…

Turkey’s National Action Program on Combating Desertification is a national policy with a cross-sectoral approach. The main objective of the National Action Program on Combating Desertification is to address underlying factors to combat desertification with the participation of state, local…

The objective of this Regulation is to define procedures and principles regarding the implementation of the Law on Soil Preservation and Land Utilization. A nine-member Land Preservation Board shall be established in each province, chaired by the Governor. Its main tasks include, inter alia, the…

This book brings together information on the contrasting characteristics, condition, present use and problems of the world's main natural grasslands. Since grassland is commercialized through the grazing animal, particular attention is paid to the livestock production systems associated…

The IPTRID programme is a multi-donor trust fund managed by the IPTRID Secretariat as a Special Programme of FAO. The Secretariat is located in the Land and Water Development Division of FAO and draws on a worldwide network of leading centres of excellence in the field of irrigation, drainage…

This paper gives a brief overview of the existing UPFG laws and regulations and points out the issues that legislative bodies may have to consider with regard to UPFG. The objective of the paper is to give an overriding analysis of the relevant issues that need to be considered in order to…

This Regulation shall apply to conservation development plan and its amendments and land use plan for protected areas, cultural and natural assets and natural sites. This Regulation sets forth provisions on approval, implementation and inspection of conservation development plan in Section II,…

This Regulation defines technical and administrative rules and principles for preventing and eradicating soil contamination. Limited values and measures for preventing soil contamination are specified in the Regulation. Provincial administrations shall define areas and locations where soil…

The current volume presents the Proceedings of an important meeting entitled "Regional Expert Consultation on Land Degradation, Plant, Animal and Human Nutrition: Inter-relation and Impact". This scientific gathering managed to have a group of soil scientists/plant nutrition…

This report presents the findings of an international fact finding mission to assess human rights, social and environmental impacts of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BYC) oil pipeline, which BP and other companies (as part of the BTC Consortium) are currently building in order to bring oil from…