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European Regional Assessment for the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land and other Natural Resources

Manuals & Guidelines
January, 1970
Georgia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, United Kingdom, Croatia, Italy, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland
VGGT
land
property
assessment
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and other development partners are working together with countries to prepare Voluntary Guidelines that will provide practical guidance to states, civil society, the private sector, donors and development specialists on the responsible governance of tenure. By setting out principles and internationally accepted standards for responsible practices, the Voluntary Guidelines will provide a framework and point of reference that stakeholders can use when developing their own policies and actions.

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Typhoon Haiyan Recovery Reveals Important Links Between Climate Change and Improved Tenure Governance

December, 2013
Costa Rica, Philippines, Poland, Spain
climate change
property
A guest post by Robert Oberndorf, Resource Law Specialist, Tenure and Global Climate Change Project
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Enforcement of the 2003 CAP reform in 5 countries of the West European Union: Consequences on land rent and land market

April, 2007
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
Land & Investments
land markets
land reform
This paper analyses the enforcement of the 2003 CAP reform in 5 countries of the West European Union: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. The reform gives multiple possibilities of adaptation at a national or regional level.
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Comparison between land suitability and actual crop distribution in an irrigation district of the Ebro valley (Spain)

December, 2008
Spain
land suitability
El objetivo de la presente investigación fue analizar la correspondencia entre los resultados de una evaluación de tierras con la distribución real de los cultivos. Para ello la aptitud biofísica de las tierras se comparó con diferentes tipologías de frecuencia de ocurrencia de los cultivos y rotaciones derivadas de mapas de cultivos multitemporales. La investigación fue llevada a cabo en el distrito de riego de Flumen (33.000 ha), localizado en el valle del Ebro (NE España).
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‘Terra de Ningú. Perspectives feministes sobre la independència’

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2019
Europe, Spain
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land
land access
women
O livro Tierra de Nadie: Perspectivas feministas sobre la Independencia é conteúdo significativo para o debate sobre a interseccionalidade numa perspectiva transversal e politizadora. Reúne contribuições que aliam de maneira brilhante os sentimentos e percepções do ativismo político feminista e LGBTI ao uso crítico e reflexivo das ferramentas analíticas no contexto da luta independentista catalã.
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COVID-19 and urban public transport services: emerging challenges and research agenda

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2020
Spain
COVID-19
equal rights
urban planning
urban land
research
This article explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for public transport. Three elements are explored. Firstly, the short-term effects, including perceptions of public transport as a vector of virus transmission and shifts towards less-sustainable modes of transport. Secondly, we discuss key challenges such as the new difficulties of providing safe and reliable public transport services, the consequent barriers for the promotion of sustainable and healthy urban mobilities and the potential exacerbation of inequalities.
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Hunting management in relation to profitability aims: red-legged partridge hunting in central Spain

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2012
Spain
land cover
Game management is widely implemented in Spain, affecting more than 70 % of land cover. Management intensity may be linked to the financial aims of hunting estates, but no study of these aspects has been developed in Spain, where commercial hunting is common. Through interviews with game managers and field surveys, we quantified physical and economic traits, management techniques, and hunting methods in a sample of 59 small-game hunting estates located in south-central Spain (where red-legged partridge hunting has the highest socioeconomic importance in the country).
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Vegetation cover reduces erosion and enhances soil organic carbon in a vineyard in the central Spain

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Spain
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land degradation
Land degradation, and soil and nutrient loss, are significant environmental problems in semi-arid agricultural environments in the Mediterranean Basin. One land use that is particularly associated with the highest rates of erosion in Spain is extensive vineyards. We examined the effectiveness of two cover crops for improving soil physical properties and reducing erosion in a vineyard located in the Henares River basin southeast of Madrid, Spain.
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Impact of three decades of urban growth on soil resources in Elche (Alicante, Spain) Impacto en el suelo como recurso depués de tres décadas de crecimiento urbano en Elche (Alicante, España) Impacto sobre o recurso solo após três décadas de crescimento...

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2012
Spain
land-use planning
land management
This article analyses the impact of soil sealing associated with three decades of urban growth in the Mediterranean coastal municipality of Elche (Alicante, Spain) on local soil resources. Geographical Information System (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) techniques were used to obtain and analyse different types of thematic information relating to urban growth and soil resources (soil class, land use capability, and physiographic classes).
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Can virtual water 'trade' reduce water scarcity in semi-arid countries? The case of Spain

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2009
Spain
Agricultural trade is by far the largest vehicle to ‘move’ water virtually around the world. Observing that most countries import and export water embedded in the exchanged products, the objective of this study is to assess the virtual water ‘trade’ in Spain for the period 1997-2006. We differentiate between the green and blue components of virtual water from a hydrological and economic perspective. The combination of spatial and time dimensions offers a unique empirical setting to determine whether virtual water ‘trade’ can contribute to reduce water scarcity.