This article discusses the extent to which the location of roads s and protected areas affects deforestation in North Thailand. The article stresses that establishing protected areas (national parks together with wildlife sanctuaries) in North Thailand did not reduce the likelihood of forest clearing, but wildlife sanctuaries may have reduced the probability of deforestation.

This extensive FAO assessment of global forest resources, describes the extent, uses and value of forest resources covering 229 countries and territories between 1990 and 2005.

Examining the assumption that private property rights create incentives for the management of resources, this paper argues that private property rights and current wildlife conservation and management laws and policies in Kenya fail to provide the solution to wildlife biodiversity erosion.

This paper argues for the need to make protected areas more directly relevant in the light of climate change. This includes the contribution of protected areas towards sustainable livelihoods, the provision of ecosystem services, and ensuring climate mitigation, resilience, and adaptation. The author advocates for mainstreaming protected area planning into sectors such as transportation and energy, reviewing the economic importance of protected areas while addressing climate-related concerns, and ensuring that protected areas form an integral part of climate adaptation efforts.

This paper describes and analyses people’s security of access to means of production among the Karimojong herd-owners who inhabit the North-Eastern districts of Uganda. It claims that Ugandan statutory land management policy and law undermines the customary tenure system, thereby threatening access security for Karimojong agro-pastoralists.

This report presents a collection of case studies which focus on processes of conflict management and resolution and the different ways and means that conflicts are addressed.

En un ese contexto de agresiones constantes por parte de agentes económicos decididos a tomar por asalto tierras comunales (traficantes de tierras, mineros y taladores informales),la Comunidad Campesina Santa Catalina de Chongoyape decidió establecer en el 86% de su territorio un Área de Conservación Privada que otorgará seguridad jurídica a su territorio y potenciará las actividades económicas.

Bosques para el desarrollo: el debate en la Amazonía
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This Regulation determines the types, necessary contents and manner of drafting, the procedure for harmonization, adoption, updating and keeping, all regarding the protection plans against harmful effects of waters on the territory of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Activities and measures, aimed at reducing or preventing the endangerment of human health, environment, cultural heritage and economic activities from harmful effects of waters, are actions for the protection from floods and ice on watercourses, protection against erosion and torrents, and measures of protection and eli

This Order amends the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992. Article 3 substitutes class 6H of Part 1A of the Schedule to the 1992 Order to provide permitted development rights for the installation, alteration or replacement of an air source heat pump on or within the curtilage of a dwelling.

Amends: Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992 (S.I. 223 (S. 17) of 1992). (1992-02-11)

This Decree sets forth provisions on land classification, cadastral information system, change in the category of agricultural land and pastures, change in the category of lands affected by radioactive and chemical contamination and degraded by natural hazards, expansion of lands in forests and protected areas, and the procedures and principles for the change in the category of land. This Decree shall apply to agricultural land under the condition that the intended purpose does not change.

Le présent décret définit les modalités d’application de la Loi n° 2015-035 du 16 juillet 2015 portant organisation de la recherche, de l’exploitation et du transport des hydrocarbures.