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   Land Use Adaptation to Climate Change: Economic Damages from Land-Falling Hurricanes in the Atlantic and Gulf States of the USA, 1900–2005

   Sustainability

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   janvier, 2012

   Global

   Régimes forestiers

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   Régime urbain

   aménagement du territoire

   Global climate change, especially the phenomena of global warming, is expected to increase the intensity of land-falling hurricanes. Societal adaptation is needed to reduce vulnerability from increasingly intense hurricanes. This study quantifies the adaptation effects of potentially policy driven caps on housing densities and agricultural cover in coastal (and adjacent inland) areas vulnerable to hurricane damages in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal regions of the U.S.

2. Library Resource

   

   Identification and Induction of Human, Social, and Cultural Capitals through an Experimental Approach to Stormwater Management

   Sustainability

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   janvier, 2012

   Global

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   Régimes forestiers

   Droits fonciers collectifs

   accès à la terre

   Decentralized stormwater management is based on the dispersal of stormwater management practices (SWMP) throughout a watershed to manage stormwater runoff volume and potentially restore natural hydrologic processes. This approach to stormwater management is increasingly popular but faces constraints related to land access and citizen engagement. We tested a novel method of environmental management through citizen-based stormwater management on suburban private land.

3. Library Resource

   

   Assessing Bioenergy Harvest Risks: Geospatially Explicit Tools for Maintaining Soil Productivity in Western US Forests

   Forests

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   janvier, 2011

   Global

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   Régimes forestiers

   Régime urbain

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   terrain forestier

   Biomass harvesting for energy production and forest health can impact the soil resource by altering inherent chemical, physical and biological properties. These impacts raise concern about damaging sensitive forest soils, even with the prospect of maintaining vigorous forest growth through biomass harvesting operations. Current forest biomass harvesting research concurs that harvest impacts to the soil resource are region- and site-specific, although generalized knowledge from decades of research can be incorporated into management activities.

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   ICARDA Annual Report 2010

   Rapports et recherches

   mars, 2011

   Global

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   développement

   système d'exploitation agricole

   système d'information géographique

   utilisation des terres

   pauvreté

   parcours

   recherche

   développement rural

   gestion des eaux

   Global food production has increased by 20% in the past decade – but food insecurity and poverty remain widespread , while the natural resource base continues to decline. International research centers, which have helped drive previous improvements, must continue to deliver new technologies to support sustainable growth in agriculture; and to work with other partners to accelerate the dissemination of these technologies.
   

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   Global livestock production systems

   Articles et Livres

   janvier, 2011

   Global

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   agriculture

   environnement

   éleveur pastoral

   Informed livestock sector policy development and priority setting is heavily dependent on a good understanding of livestock production systems. In a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Livestock Research Institute, stock has been taken of where we have come from in agricultural systems classification and mapping; the current state of the art; and the directions in which research and data collection efforts need to take in the future.

   
   

6. Library Resource

   

   The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought

   Toward an Integrated Global Assessment

   Articles et Livres

   Rapports et recherches

   mai, 2011

   Global

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   désertification

   dégradation des terres

   économie foncière

   Since the publication of the Report of the Brundtland Commission (Our Common Future) in 1987, and the consequent Earth Summit on sustainable development, global attention on natural resource scarcity and degradation has been increasing, because of climate change and rising food and energy prices. This awareness, in turn, has led to growing interest in land investments by the private and public sectors. Despite this interest, however, land degradation has not been comprehensively addressed at the global level or in developing countries.

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   Measuring the value of land

   The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought

   Rapports et recherches

   février, 2011

   Global

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   désertification

   dégradation des terres

   politique foncière

   Gestion foncière durable

   The economic dimension of desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) is increasingly gaining importance.

   
   

   For this reason, the UNCCD has launched an initiative to help make the economic side of desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) an integral part of policy strategies and decision-making. An important step in this direction was the Partnership meeting on the Assessment of the »Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought« ( EDLDD), held December 14 – 15, 2010.

   
   

8. Library Resource

   

   La terre, source de vie: Préserver notre avenir commun

   Articles et Livres

   janvier, 2011

   Global

   Terres, changement climatique et environnement

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   environnement

   utilisation intensive des terres

   espace foncier

   dégradation des terres

   Gestion foncière durable

   utilisation durable des terres

   La terre — une ressource vitale pour la population mondiale

   
   

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   Global Drylands: A UN system-wide response

   Manuels et directives

   Rapports et recherches

   octobre, 2011

   Global

   Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

   développement des capacités

   espace foncier

   dégradation des terres

   Gestion foncière durable

   utilisation durable des terres

   More than two billion people depend on the world’s arid and semi-arid lands. Preventing land degradation and supporting sustainable development in drylands has major implications for food security, climate change and human settlement. This report, issued at the beginning of the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification, sets out a shared strategy by UN agencies to rise to the challenge of addressing the special needs of these vital zones.

   
   

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    The Forgotten Billion: MDG achievement in the Drylands

    Manuels et directives

    Articles et Livres

    août, 2011

    Global

    Pâturages, terres arides et pastoralisme

    environnement

    espace foncier

    dégradation des terres

    pauvreté

    développement rural

    population rurale

    développement durable

    utilisation durable des terres

    As the world reviews its progress in tackling global poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), drylands can no longer be ignored. Drylands account for more than a third of the world’s land surface and more than 2 billion of its people. Yet for too long, drylands and their inhabitants have been neglected in development processes.