Drawing on a wide variety of international scientific and technical assessments and policy reports, this comprehensive study depicts the linkages - both physical and biochemical - between important environmental issues.
It also discusses how interlinked, global environmental issues can be confronted in an integrated manner and how such issues influence our ability to meet basic human needs. See also trends, causes, social and economic consequences, technologies, policies and measures to mitigate desertification and land degradation.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 1998Global
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 1998Colombia
Proyecto Gestión Urbana en Ciudades Intermedias Seleccionadas de América Latina ITA/95/S71
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Library ResourceEnero, 1998
To achieve an integrated approach to the planning and management of land resources, cooperation among experts from the
disciplines involved and integration of the respective results are required in order to identify and evaluate all biophysical, socio-economic and
legal attributes of the land. The glossary aims to contribute to the development of a common technical language. The terms, methods and -
Library ResourceEnero, 1998Europa
Paper defines a strategy for forest sector development, and translates it for practical application. In response to the causes of deforestation and desertification, which are rooted in a complex web of socio-economic factors (both inside and, mainly, outside the forests) these guidelines are centred on the needs of people living in and making a living from forests. Sustainable forest management is based on economic, environmental, social and cultural criteria and indicators.
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Library ResourceEnero, 1999África subsahariana
A growing recognition of the need to delimit the role of the government, to promote the market framework, and to rely on the private sector as the engine of growth, offers the prospect of a new beginning in rural development in Africa. Rural people must take a more dominant role, both in shaping their economic prospects and in assuming the responsibility for a high quality of stewardship of natural resources. To help to bring about such an empowerment of the people, governments and the donors will need to undertake some drastic reforms in the old systems and habits of governance.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesJunio, 1998África austral
There is widespread belief among development specialists that land tenure security is a necessary but not sufficient condition for economic development.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 1998Fiji, Estados Unidos de América, Malí, Samoa, Alemania, Guinea-Bissau, Vanuatu, Canadá, Guinea, Islas Salomón, Nueva Zelandia, Mozambique, Filipinas, Sudáfrica, Australia, Madagascar, Italia, Papua Nueva Guinea
Community-based natural resource management and local users of natural resources can, and in many cases do, manage resources sustainably – if their rights to do so are recognized and protected, if appropriate institutions are in place or can be developed, and if the benefits are significant, obvious and secure. The article analyses one facet of the complex relationship between law and community-based management: the problem of how national laws recognize community-based land-owning or resource managing groups.
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