This article starts from the study of the historic port cities, that today are facing the challenge of the urban waterfront requalification, through the preservation of the cultural and landscape heritage.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJune, 2015Italy
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015South America, Brazil
Palavras-chave em português: Expropriação, Indígenas Guarani, Propriedade privada capitalista da terra, Resistência
Resumo em português
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2015Western Asia, Iraq
This final report synthesizes the results of the Iraq Salinity Project, a research partnership between five Iraqi ministries and national agencies and an international team of researchers, led by ICARDA, specializing in land and water management, crop improvement and plant breeding, geoinformatics, and socioeconomics.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsMay, 2015Global
Over the past 15 years, tens of millions of hectares of land have been acquired by large investors in developing countries. The Land Matrix documented 1,037 transnational land deals covering 37,842,371 hectares during this period, while many more deals remain undocumented.1 This global land rush is causing widespread forced evictions and denial of access to key land and natural resources for millions of women, small- scale food producers, pastoralists, gatherers, forest dwellers, fisherfolk, and tribal and indigenous peoples.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsMarch, 2015Kazakhstan, Central Asia
Agenda of Group meetings on women’s role in use and management of water resources in Turkistan region - russian
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2015Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
An Assessment of the Economics of Land Degradation for Improved Land Management in Central Asia
Inception and Training Workshop23 - 25 February 2015
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2015Western Africa, Mali
The Kelka forest in the Mopti region of Mali is important for the provision of ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and maintenance of the hydrological cycle. The Kelka forest area occupies more than 300, 000 hectares with 15
villages within and around its boundaries. The forest resources and soil fertility of the forest are in continuous decline due to a combination of climatic and human induced factors. For example, the availability of firewood has halved -
Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2015Global
Gedaref State was previously known as the
food basket of Sudan. Over several decades
unsustainable agricultural practices that
combined near-monocropping with low nutrient
replenishment have led to significant degradation
of soils, which are no longer able to sustain farmer
livelihoods. This study found that adopting
an integrated sustainable land use and forest
restoration scenario could reverse the current
land degradation trend. The integration of Acacia
senegal with sorghum, Sudan’s primary staple -
Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJune, 2015Italy
This essay suggests a re-elaboration of the Marketing Comparison Approach in order to set the value of properties subject to transformation. The essay focuses on identifying the property valuation following a certain transformation and is aimed at determining the land value by means of the extraction method.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMay, 2015Cambodia
In 2008, three sugar companies were awarded nearly 20,000 hectares of Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) in Oddar Meanchey province.
The new research finds that associated land grabbing totaling more than 17,000 hectares has affected more than 2,000 families. Of these, 214 families were forcibly evicted.
Meanwhile, at least 3,000 hectares of the misappropriated land has been used for logging rather than sugar plantations, according to the report, ‘Cambodia: The Bitter Taste of Sugar’, commissioned by ActionAid and Oxfam GB.
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