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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).

  2. Library Resource

    Highlands and Drylands : Mountains, a source of resilience in arid regions

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2011
    South Africa, Southern Africa, Northern America, Central Asia, Western Asia
    Forest Landscape Restoration
    Land & Gender
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    climate change
    desertification
    land restoration
    women

    Dryland mountains are among the least-known environments in the world, and certainly one of the most overlooked by decision- and policy-makers. Dryland mountains have an outstanding strategic value. They act as water towers for surrounding dry lowland areas, as shown by the examples of the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Central Andes, the mountains of the Mediterranean Basin, the Sahara and Sub-Saharan Africa, West Asia, and Central Asia

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    Legal Instruments to implement the objective “Land Degradation Neutral World” in International Law

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Brazil, United States of America, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands
    Land Degradation & Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    land-use planning
    land degradation

    The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”.

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    Nature-Based Solutions for agricultural water management and food security

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Southern Africa, South Africa, Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, United States of America, Japan, Philippines, Iran, Nepal
    Land & Food Security
    Land Degradation & Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    food security
    land management
    desertification
    land degradation
    agriculture
    water management

    Agriculture influences and shapes the world’s ecosystems, but not always in a positive way. More than 2.5 billion people are globally involved as stewards of land and water ecosystems that constitute the natural resource base for feeding the current and future world population. Yet, conventional agronomic interventions based on ‘hard’ agricultural engineering compromise various eco-services that are required for sustainable agricultural development.

  5. Library Resource

    Summary for policymakers of the regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for the Americas of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2018
    South America, Central America, Northern America
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    environment
    land governance
    land use
    sustainable land management

    The objective of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is to provide Governments, the private sector, and civil society with scientifically credible and independent up-to-date assessments of available knowledge to make informed decisions at the local, regional and international levels.

  6. Library Resource

    Sustainable Land Management for Climate and People. Science-Policy Brief 03

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2017
    Ethiopia, Nicaragua, United States of America
    Land Degradation & Tenure
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    climate change
    desertification
    land degradation
    agricultural land management
    sustainable land management
    biodiversity

    Land provides crucial ecosystem services for human existence and human well-being, including provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural services. Those services provide among others the production of fresh air, food, feed, fuel and fibre. They regulate the risks of natural hazards and climate change, offer cultural and spiritual values to our society, and support key ecological functions such as nutrient and water cycling, filtering and buffering, and are central to economic vitality.

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