Groundwater comprises 97 percent of the
worlds readily accessible freshwater and provides the rural,
urban, industrial and irrigation water supply needs of 2
billion people around the world. As the more easily accessed
surface water resources are already being used, pressure on
groundwater is growing. In the last few decades, this
pressure has been evident through rapidly increasing pumping
of groundwater, accelerated by the availability of cheap

This report was commissioned by Forestry Commission Scotland to better understand the woodland social enterprise sector in Scotland. Findings include the landscape of the sector, what enterprises are doing, and what potential there is for the sector to grow.

This report was commissioned by Natural Resources Wales to better understand the woodland social enterprise sector in Wales. Findings include the landscape of the sector, what enterprises are doing, and what potential there is for the sector to grow.

The current solutions to delivering land administration services have very limited global outreach; 75 percent of the world's population do not have access to formal systems to register and safeguard their land rights. The majority of these are the poor and the most vulnerable in society and without any level of security of tenure they constantly live in threat of eviction.

This Regulation of the Minister of Public Works, consisting of IV Chapters, establishes the Guidelines for Land-use Planning. It specifies requirements and environmental standards to be satisfied for building construction, infrastructure network system, mining facilities and other special works. It also establishes the studies and research to be carried out prior any land use activity, such as: geology, disaster risk management, environment, socio-economic feasibility.

Government entities in India hold large
amounts of public land. Their landholdings include some of
the most valuable property in the country. Parts of this
patrimony lie vacant or underutilized. Public sector bodies
also own large blocs of land that sometimes stand in the way
of efficient completion of urban infrastructure networks. At
the same time, urban India is deficient in basic
infrastructure -- both network infrastructure needed to

The purpose of this Decree is to provide for matters delegated from the Landscape Act and matters necessary for the enforcement thereof.

Ill advised, uncoordinated, and badly planned interventions have been blamed for continuing poverty and food insecurity in rangelands. Water interventions in particular have had negative impacts. Not only have these interventions failed to improve the livelihoods of people living there, but in many cases they have served to undermine them and the environment on which they depend. Rangeland development interventions have been sectoral in their approach.

Cada año muchas políticas específicas son implementadas en ciudades alrededor del mundo aspirando dar forma al desarrollo urbano, aumentar la productividad urbana, mejorar las condiciones de vivienda, reducir la congestión del tráfico, incrementar los ingresos, o alcanzar innumerables objetivos urbanos entrelazados. Estas aplicaciones de la política son esencialmente experimentos de gobierno cuyos resultados pueden ayudar a informarnos sobre lo que funciona y lo que no funciona en diversos entornos urbanos.

Le présent décret modifie les limites de la zone d’utilité publique (ZUP) définie par le décret n°98-476/PRES/PM/MEE/MEF du 02 décembre 1998 portant déclaration d’utilité publique et régime particulier de gestion des terres du domaine foncier de la zone du projet Bagré et définit l’emprise de la zone d’utilité publique du pôle de croissance de Bagré.Par ailleurs, il crée à l’intérieur du domaine foncier de la zone d’utilité publique du pôle de croissance de Bagré dite «Zone de Concentration».La zone de concentration est aménagée principalement à des fins d’activités agricoles, piscicoles, p

This report aims at providing
stakeholders with a good analysis of the potential impacts
of mining development on the Congo Basin forests. It is one
of a series of outputs prepared during a two-year exercise
to analyze and better understand the deforestation dynamics
in the Basin. It presents the main findings of an analysis
of the mining potential in the Congo Basin as well as the
global trends in demand of minerals tries to identify ways

Reducing the footprint of growth
requires a focus on three key issues: a) transforming urban
areas into greener, more efficient, resilient, and socially
inclusive cities, better able to capture the economic
benefits associated with urbanization; b) ensuring sound
management of the brown environmental agenda to provide the
conditions for continued sustainable economic green growth
while preventing and minimizing negative impacts and risks