Author: Pema Gyamtsho
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Papers and proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Capitalisation and Sharing of Experiences on the Interaction Between Forest Policies and Land Use Patterns in Asia, held at Kathmandau during 24-28 January 2005.
Capitalisation and Sharing of Experiences on the Interaction Between Forest Policies and Land Use Patterns in Asia: Proceedings summary
Author: Pema Gyamtsho
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Papers and proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Capitalisation and Sharing of Experiences on the Interaction Between Forest Policies and Land Use Patterns in Asia, held at Kathmandau during 24-28 January 2005.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Papers and proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Capitalisation and Sharing of Experiences on the Interaction Between Forest Policies and Land Use Patterns in Asia, held at Kathmandau during 24-28 January 2005.
ICIMOD Newsletter for Sustainable Development in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
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Category : Conservation of narural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
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Category : Conservation of narural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Journal of Forest and Livelihood
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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
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Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development
Author: Ephraim Nkonya
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319191683
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319191683
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
Author: Hari Krishna Nibanupudi
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 4431552421
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degradation that has accelerated flash floods, river-line floods, erosion, and wet mass movements during the monsoon period and drought in the non-monsoon period. Against the backdrop of intensifying disasters and in the absence of a focused documentation of disaster risk reduction issues in the HKH region, this volume presents a comprehensive body of knowledge. The main purpose and objective of this publication is to connect existing data, research, conceptual work, and practical cases on risk, resilience, and risk reduction from the HKH region under a common analytical umbrella. The result is a contribution to advancing disaster resilience and risk reduction in the HKH region. The book will be of special interest to policy makers, donors, and researchers concerned with the disaster issues in the region.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 4431552421
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degradation that has accelerated flash floods, river-line floods, erosion, and wet mass movements during the monsoon period and drought in the non-monsoon period. Against the backdrop of intensifying disasters and in the absence of a focused documentation of disaster risk reduction issues in the HKH region, this volume presents a comprehensive body of knowledge. The main purpose and objective of this publication is to connect existing data, research, conceptual work, and practical cases on risk, resilience, and risk reduction from the HKH region under a common analytical umbrella. The result is a contribution to advancing disaster resilience and risk reduction in the HKH region. The book will be of special interest to policy makers, donors, and researchers concerned with the disaster issues in the region.
Current Literature on Science of Science
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Capitalisation and Sharing of Experiences on the Interaction Between Forest Policies and Land Use Patterns in Asia: Technical papers
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9789291150083
Category : Community forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Papers and proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Capitalisation and Sharing of Experiences on the Interaction Between Forest Policies and Land Use Patterns in Asia, held at Kathmandau during 24-28 January 2005.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789291150083
Category : Community forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Papers and proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Capitalisation and Sharing of Experiences on the Interaction Between Forest Policies and Land Use Patterns in Asia, held at Kathmandau during 24-28 January 2005.
Tropical Ecology
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
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Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Advancing Land Change Modeling
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309288363
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how land is used by people (land use) and in the vegetation, rock, buildings, and other physical material that cover the Earth's surface (land cover) can be described and future land change can be projected using land-change models (LCMs). LCMs are a key means for understanding how humans are reshaping the Earth's surface in the past and present, for forecasting future landscape conditions, and for developing policies to manage our use of resources and the environment at scales ranging from an individual parcel of land in a city to vast expanses of forests around the world. Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements describes various LCM approaches, suggests guidance for their appropriate application, and makes recommendations to improve the integration of observation strategies into the models. This report provides a summary and evaluation of several modeling approaches, and their theoretical and empirical underpinnings, relative to complex land-change dynamics and processes, and identifies several opportunities for further advancing the science, data, and cyberinfrastructure involved in the LCM enterprise. Because of the numerous models available, the report focuses on describing the categories of approaches used along with selected examples, rather than providing a review of specific models. Additionally, because all modeling approaches have relative strengths and weaknesses, the report compares these relative to different purposes. Advancing Land Change Modeling's recommendations for assessment of future data and research needs will enable model outputs to better assist the science, policy, and decisionsupport communities.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309288363
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how land is used by people (land use) and in the vegetation, rock, buildings, and other physical material that cover the Earth's surface (land cover) can be described and future land change can be projected using land-change models (LCMs). LCMs are a key means for understanding how humans are reshaping the Earth's surface in the past and present, for forecasting future landscape conditions, and for developing policies to manage our use of resources and the environment at scales ranging from an individual parcel of land in a city to vast expanses of forests around the world. Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements describes various LCM approaches, suggests guidance for their appropriate application, and makes recommendations to improve the integration of observation strategies into the models. This report provides a summary and evaluation of several modeling approaches, and their theoretical and empirical underpinnings, relative to complex land-change dynamics and processes, and identifies several opportunities for further advancing the science, data, and cyberinfrastructure involved in the LCM enterprise. Because of the numerous models available, the report focuses on describing the categories of approaches used along with selected examples, rather than providing a review of specific models. Additionally, because all modeling approaches have relative strengths and weaknesses, the report compares these relative to different purposes. Advancing Land Change Modeling's recommendations for assessment of future data and research needs will enable model outputs to better assist the science, policy, and decisionsupport communities.
At Loggerheads?
Author: Piet Buys
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821367366
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The report offers a simple framework for policy analysis by identifying three forest types: frontiers and disputed lands; lands beyond the agricultural frontier; and, mosaic lands where forests and agriculture coexist. It collates geographic and economic information for each type that will help formulate poverty-reducing forest policy.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821367366
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The report offers a simple framework for policy analysis by identifying three forest types: frontiers and disputed lands; lands beyond the agricultural frontier; and, mosaic lands where forests and agriculture coexist. It collates geographic and economic information for each type that will help formulate poverty-reducing forest policy.