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land use

Arrangements, activities and inputs people undertake in a certain land cover type to maintain it or produce change.

 

Source: ISO/TC 211 Multi-Lingual Glossary of Terms

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In arid regions, oases ecosystems are fragile and sensitive to climate change, and water is the major limiting factor for environmental and socio-economic developments. Understanding the drivers of land use/cover change (LUCC) in arid regions is important for the development of management strategies to improve or prevent environmental deterioration and loss of natural resources.

Legislation
Russia
Eastern Europe
Europe

This Regional Law shall have as its purpose ensuring the right of citizens to favorable environment, including landscape and shade gardening, planting of recreational urban forests, thus ensuring favorable conditions for vital activity of citizens, and delimits plenary powers between city state bodies, local government and municipal units in the sphere of improvement of natural environment.

Journal Articles & Books
Tanzania
Nigeria
Africa
Eastern Africa
Western Africa

Several cassava genotypes were observed although there were few bred varieties. The wide diversity in the cassava landraces was a consequence of the action of the farmers in continuously abandoning and introducing cultivars into their system as they tried to select those cultivars that met their needs.

Journal Articles & Books
Colombia

El propósito de este artículo es explorar algunas consideraciones basadas en el criterio de la eficiencia económica pura; necesarias para diseñar una política pública eficiente para la de asignación de activos ambientales de interés público.

Reports & Research
Myanmar

MYLAFF - a forum for sharing information about land, rural livelihoods, forests, fisheries, agribusiness investment and natural resource management in Myanmar...
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Legislation
Russia
Eastern Europe
Europe

This Regional Law regulates the issues of conservation, protection, management and reproduction of recreational forests in urban areas with a view of creation of favourable environment for the population. It shall also regulate the issue of afforestation and reforestation in urban areas.

Journal Articles & Books
Argentina

Urbanization is a territorial and socioeconomic process that induces a radical transformation of land/use cover. It produces great changes in the environment and therefore, is the principal cause of environmental problems and risks.

Legislation
Russia
Eastern Europe
Europe

The scope of this Regional Law shall be to regulate social relations in the sphere of historical and cultural heritage, ensuring access thereto of citizens and conservation and promotion of historical and cultural habitats of the regional population. Objects of cultural heritage shall be classified as federal, regional and local (municipal).

Journal Articles & Books
Chile

This article focusses on the territorial transformation of Wallmapu (the Mapuche nation) from the time of the Spanish conquest, the consolidation of the Chilean nation-state, the Augusto Pinochet military dictatorship, to the current social-democratic coalitions.

Journal Articles & Books
Brazil

El muestreo optimizado en inventarios forestales permite perfeccionar las tecnologías de manejo forestal sostenible. Se desarrolló una metodología para determinar la intensidad optima de muestreo en inventarios forestales continuos, ajustándolos al principio n° 08 del FSC (Forest Stewardship Council). Datos de un censo con mapeo de árboles con DAP ? 35 cm fueron utilizados.