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Decision No. 734/QD-TTg approving the adjusted master plan on socio-economic development of Dong Nai province through 2020, with a vision toward 2025.

Regulations
May, 2015
Vietnam

This Decision approves the adjusted master plan on socio-economic development of Dong Nai province through 2020, with a vision toward 2025, with the following principal contents: To further bring into play the existing comparative advantages and internal resources in association with mobilizing external resources to maintain a fast and stable growth rate. To develop industries in depth and in an environment-friendly manner, prioritize the attraction of investment in hi-tech industrial projects and supporting industries of mechanical engineering, electricity and electronics.

Loi N° 018-2015/CNT portant autorisation de ratification de la convention portant création de l’agence panafricaine de la grande muraille verte (AGMV) adoptée A N’DJAMENA, le 17 juin 2010.

Legislation
May, 2015
Burkina Faso

La présente loi autorise la ratification de la Convention portant création de l’Agence Panafricaine de la Grande Muraille Verte (APGMV) adoptée à N’Djaména, le 17 juin 2010, dont objectif global est la réalisation de la Grande Muraille Verte dans les Etats membres pour lutter contre les effets du changement climatique et de la désertification ainsi que la perte de biodiversité, afin d'engendrer des impacts socio-économiques hautement positifs sur les populations et d'assurer la gestion durable des ressources naturelles et le développement intégré des zones arides ciblées.

The Welfare Economics of Land Use Planning

Reports & Research
May, 2015
Norway

This paper presents an empirical methodology for the evaluation of the benefits and costs of land use planning. The technique is applied in the context of the Town and Country Planning System of the UK, and examines the gross and net benefits of land use regulation and their distribution across income groups. The results show that the welfare and distributional impacts can be large.

2 Foro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Vivienda Adecuada 2015

Reports & Research
May, 2015
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Haiti
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Peru
Trinidad and Tobago
Uruguay

Un resumen de experiencias prometedoras en materia de vivienda adecuada y asentamientos humanos en América Latina y el Caribe. Dichas experiencias fueron seleccionadas por medio de un Comité Calificador, compuesto por representantes de las instituciones organizadoras del Foro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Vivienda Adecuada, a partir de más de 70 concursantes.

Town and Country Planning (Trelawny Parish) Provisional Development Order, 2013 (Confirmation) Notification, 2015 (No. 61A of 2015).

Regulations
May, 2015
Jamaica

This Order, made under section 7 of the Town and Country Planning Act, confirms and amends the Town and Country Planning (Trelawny Parish) Provisional Development Order, 2013. Minor amendments are made to provisions concerning, among other things, use classes, a planning role for the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, and the list of national monuments.

Amends: Town and Country Planning (Trelawny Parish) Provisional Development Order, 2013 (No. 89B of 2013). (2013-06-21)

Outil d’apprentissage sur les Mesures d’atténuation adaptées au pays (NAMA) dans les secteurs de l’agriculture, des forêts et des autres utilisations des terres (AFOLU)

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2015
Burkina Faso
Bangladesh
Kenya
Mali
Zimbabwe
Ghana
Malawi
Costa Rica
Niger
Ethiopia
Rwanda
Pakistan
Italy
Tanzania
Togo
Uruguay

La version française de l'Outil d'apprentissage sur les mesures d’atténuation appropriées au niveau national (MAAN) dans le secteur agriculture, foresterie et autres affectations des terres (AFAT) se compose d'une série de diapositives en cinq modules pour l'étude indépendante. L'outil examine les voies pour l'identification des MAAN (c’est-à-dire évaluations rapides ou approfondies) et la hiérarchisation des options différentes pour la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES).

Aligned National Action Programme for Grenada’s Commitment under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought

National Policies
April, 2015
Grenada

The Aligned National Action Programme (NAP) for Grenada’s Commitment under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought is a cross-sectoral national programme of Grenada for the period of 2015-2020. Its main objective is to prevent land degradation, and restore 10% of degraded land by 2020, and mitigate the effects of drought and other climatic shocks.The NAP is structured around five Operational Objectives. The first Operation Objective is Advocacy, Awareness Raising and Education.

The feasibility of implementing an ecological network in The Netherlands under conditions of global change

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2015

Context: Both global change and policy reform will affect the implementation of the National Ecological Network (NEN) in the Netherlands. Global change refers to a combination of changing groundwater tables arising from climate change and improved economic prospects for farming. Policy reform refers to the abolition of an intermediary organization that organizes land trades with the support of a national land bank. Objective: In this paper we evaluate the effects of these factors on future land acquisition for the NEN.

Drought and Conflict across the Kenyan-Ethiopian Border

Training Resources & Tools
April, 2015
Ethiopia
Kenya

The Omo-Turkana basin stretches from southern Ethiopia into Kenya. Temperatures in the region are rising and droughts occur with higher frequency and intensity. As Ethiopian pastoralists venture further south in search of water and grazing land, conflicts with Kenyan pastoralists and fishermen are intensifying. Given their trans-boundary and protracted nature, these conflicts pose a particular challenge to local peace building and disarmament efforts.

Land Acquisition Law and Practice in Myanmar

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2015
Myanmar

Executive Summary:
"Land acquisition issues and resultant land disputes of various types are some
of the most controversial, contentious and vexing issues at play in the evolving
political and economic landscape of today's Myanmar. Few issues are discussed
more fervently and frequently than issues relating to the critical question of land;
who owns it, who controls it, who may seek to acquire it, disputes over it, and who is
to be potentially removed from it. Innumerable recent reports indicate three