The Mediterranean region has more than 25 million hectares of Mediterranean forests and about 50 million hectares of other Mediterranean wooded lands. They make crucial contributions to rural development, poverty alleviation, food security, as well as, the agricultural, water, tourism, and energy sectors. Changes in climate, societies, and lifestyles to create appropriate financial incentives and tools.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2018Algeria, Slovenia, France, Morocco, Belgium, United States of America, Spain, Israel, Turkey, Croatia, Albania, Germany, Italy, Portugal, United Kingdom, Greece, Tunisia, Lebanon
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMarch, 2018Algeria, Benin, United States of America, Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, Congo, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Jordan, Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Spain, Burundi, Uruguay, Kenya, Tajikistan, Norway, Ghana
<p>The <i>State of the World’s Forest Genetic Resources</i> addresses the conservation, management and sustainable use of forest tree and other woody plant genetic resources of actual and potential value for human well-being in the broad range of management systems. This report complements two other FAO flagship publications in the field of forestry, the annual State of the World’s Forests and the periodic Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA).
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsJanuary, 2018United Kingdom, Ghana
Ghana’s work to promote the legal timber trade, in partnership with the European Union (EU), strongly emphasizes involving local communities who live in or near forests. Yet many farmers and communities don’t understand their rights, which means that illegal activity by loggers has gone unchecked in Ghana’s off-reserve forests.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJune, 2018France, Morocco, Switzerland, United States of America, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Germany, Indonesia, Norway, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Congo, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil
The zero-deforestation movement has gained considerable momentum as governments and companies enter into commitments to curb deforestation. The most innovative are multi-stakeholder initiatives, where governments and international organi- zations have joined with the private sector and civil society organizations in making commit- ments to reduce deforestation. These pledges have created opportunities for improved forest governance by envisaging the private sector at the centre of the movement.
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Library ResourceRegulationsApril, 2017United Kingdom
These Regulations, together with a number of other statutory instruments made at the same time, establish a new procedure for referred applications and appeals in Wales ("referred applications" are applications for planning permission, listed building consent, conservation area consent and hazardous substances consent referred to the Welsh Ministers for determination.
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Library ResourceRegulationsApril, 2017United Kingdom
These Regulations amend the Town and Country Planning (Trees) Regulations 1999, in relation to Wales in Part 1 and remove Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Order. The effect of the amendments is to require— (a) a notice of appeal to be accompanied by a full statement of case comprised of a written statement containing full particulars of the appellant’s case and copies of supporting documents; and (b) the appellant to send a copy of both the notice of appeal and full statement of case to the authority which made the tree preservation order as soon as reasonably practicable.
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Library ResourceLegislationApril, 2016United Kingdom
This Act brings about a comprehensive reform of the law relating to land rights and land planning and management in Scotland.
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Library ResourceRegulationsMay, 2017United Kingdom
These Regulations make minor changes and corrections to the Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017, the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017, the Forestry (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017, the Agriculture, Land Drainage and Irrigation Projects (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 and the Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2001France, United Kingdom
Tous les deux ans, le rapport intitul Situation des forts du monde fait le point sur l'tat des forts du monde et dcrit l'volution rcente des politiques et des institutions, ainsi que les questions cls qui se posent dans le secteur forestier. Il s'agit de la quatrime dition de cette publication dont l'objectif est de diffuser largement des informations concernant la politique, fiables et jour, auprs des dcideurs, des forestiers et d'autres gestionnaires des ressources naturelles, des universitaires, de l'industrie forestire et de la socit civile.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Algeria, France, Morocco, Turkey, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Tunisia, Lebanon, Asia
This report takes place within the framework of the regional project “Maximize the production of goods and services of Mediterranean forest ecosystems in the context of global changes” (2012-2016) financed by the French Global Environment Facility together with the German Cooperation (GIZ), the French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry, and the European Union in 5 countries in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) and the Near East (Lebanon, Turkey).
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