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2019 Europe Sustainable Development Report

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
sustainable land management
This report comes at a critical time for Europe. The new President and Commission have already committed to a European Green Deal to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. They have further pledged to place the SDGs at the centre of the European Semester – the Union’s framework for the coordination of economic policies across member states. Indeed, in their mission letters each new Commissioner is asked to ensure “the delivery of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals within their policy area.
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2019 Land for Life Award: Decades of Impact

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Global
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
desertification
land degradation
sustainable land management
The 2019 edition of the Land for Life Award puts the spotlight on individuals and organizations that made outstanding contributions to achieve land degradation neutrality on a large scale, with long-term changes and dedicated actions for 25 years or longer. Those remarkable projects involve local people, communities and the society, raising the level of their ambition. Meanwhile, recent assessments remind us that two billion hectares of land are now degraded worldwide. This represents an area larger than the territory of the Russian Federation, the biggest country in the world.
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2019 SDG Index and Dashboards Report for European Cities (prototype version).

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Europe
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
sustainable land management
urban areas
This 2019 SDG Index and Dashboards Report for European Cities (prototype version) provides an overview of the performance of 45 capital cities and large metropolitan areas on the Agenda 2030 and 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by global leaders in September 2015 at the UN Sustainable Development Summit.
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2019 US Cities Sustainable Development Report

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land use
sustainable land management
urban areas
US cities are at the forefront of the sustainable development challenge. They contain 80% of the country’s population, and therefore have the capacity to make or break SDG achievement (US Census Bureau 2016). But, while crucial to SDG attainment, they Executive Summary cannot accomplish this alone. While 80 percent of US residents live in urban areas, only 3 percent of land is urban; rural and urban areas are deeply interconnected (US Census Bureau 2016).
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A catástrofe climática e o ataque neoliberal à Índia rural

Reports & Research
October, 2019
Asia, India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
community land rights
farmers
food security
land governance
local communities
poverty
O Censo Indiano de 2011 contabilizou 833 milhões de pessoas vivendo em áreas rurais, sendo agricultores cerca de 95,8 milhões. A Índia rural, nas últimas décadas, passa por uma grave crise agrária, como consequência da comercialização da agricultura, da dominação do setor por corporações multinacionais, dívidas enormes entre os pequenos agricultores e trabalhadores agrícolas. Há uma epidemia de suicídios, altas taxas de desnutrição e crises em cascata entre artesãos e mineiros, os outros trabalhadores de áreas rurais.
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A Guide for Company-Based Grievance Mechanisms for Land-Related Disputes

January, 2019
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
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A linkage between the biophysical and the economic: Assessing the global market impacts of soil erosion

Land Use Policy Volume 86

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2019
Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
land use
research
Employing a linkage between a biophysical and an economic model, this study estimates the economic impact of soil erosion by water on the world economy. The global biophysical model estimates soil erosion rates, which are converted into land productivity losses and subsequently inserted into a global market simulation model. The headline result is that soil erosion by water is estimated to incur a global annual cost of eight billion US dollars to global GDP.
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A Longitudinal Approach to Examining the Socio-Economic Resilience of the Alento District (Italy) to Land Degradation—1950 to Present

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2019
Italy
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
land degradation
Land degradation is a multifaceted phenomenon. In many mountainous and hilly areas that are marginal in terms of their economic and social sustainability, degradation is closely linked to population decline through ageing and outmigration, and to the abandonment of land, leading to a loss of community resilience. These processes acting together can produce positive feedback loops, with the consequential loss of socio-economic resilience at larger spatial scales that can ultimately lead to the disintegration of entire territories.
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A Manual for Gender-Responsive Land Degradation Neutrality Transformative Projects and Programmes.

Manuals & Guidelines
September, 2019
Global
Land & Gender
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
VGGT
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
sustainable development
land management
land degradation
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
monitoring
women
Climate- and human-induced land degradation endangers the future survival of our planet. A new focus on achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) seeks to spark and grow transformative efforts to avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation through gender- and socially-equitable means.
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A New Approach to the Registration of Buildings towards 3D Land and Property Management in Slovakia

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2019
Slovakia
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Investments
Urban Tenure
land titling
Slovakia faces a critical period in land and property management. The Land Registry still maintains its old 1990s information system and obsolete manual record system, whose structure and links of the real estate records and ownership titles are unable to meet the current requirements of companies in its graphical representation and visualization of data. Basically, it is a partially structured, digitalized and yet still analog system for recording land titles.