Sustainable land management sourcebook [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : World Bank, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.73
• Soggetto topico: Land use - Environmental aspects; Rural development - Environmental aspects; Sustainable agriculture
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; BOXES; FIGURES; TABLES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART I Sustainable Land Management: Challenges and Opportunities; CHAPTER 1 Overview; Box 1.1 Ecosystem Services; Box 1.2 Historical Perspective on Landscapes, Land Management, and Land Degradation; Figure 1.1 Global Food Production, Food Prices, and Undernourishment in Developing Countries, 1961-2003; Figure 1.2 Typical Set of Production Activities (Forestry, Crop and Livestock Production, Hydropower, and Coastal Fisheries) Encountered in a Production Landscape ; Figure 1.3 World Comparisons of Food Production and Consumption 2003Box 1.3 Pressure-State-Response Framework; Table 1.1 Comparison of Farming Systems by Category; Box 1.4 Household Strategies to Improve Livelihoods; Box 1.5 Key Safeguard Policy Issues for SLM and Natural Resource Management Investments; PART II Major Farming Systems: Investment Options and Innovations; CHAPTER 2 Introduction; CHAPTER 3 Rainfed Farming and Land Management Systems in Humid Areas; Figure 3.1 Months of Consecutive Dry Season; Table 3.1 Forage Use and Production Criteria ; Box 3.1 Example of Pasture Rehabilitation and Intensification from HondurasFigure 3.2 Nigerian Soybean Production (1988-2006) and Markets in Ibadan (1987-2000); Table 3.2 ASB Summary Matrix: Forest Margins of Sumatra; Box 3.2 Examining Hydrological Contradictions in the North China Plain; Figure 3.3 Irrigation History of Luancheng County: Estimated Pumping for Irrigation, 1949-99; Figure 3.4 General Relationships between Precipitation and Evapotranspiration for Cropland in Luancheng County, 1947-2000; Figure 3.5 Hydronomic Zones in a River Basin ; Box 3.3 Types of Environmental Services Generated by Good Land-Use PracticesTable 3.3 Incidence of Costs and Benefits for Environmental Services; Table 3.4 Total Number of Plant Species Recorded in Three Fallow Types in the Humid Forest Zone of Southern Cameroon; Table 3.5 List of the Four Most Preferred Priority Indigenous Fruit Tree Species in Selected Regions; Figure 3.6 Schematic Trade-off between Reduced GHG Emissions through Avoided Deforestation and National Economic Development Opportunities; Figure 3.7 Area and Production Increases in Freshwater Aquaculture in Vietnam, 1999-2005 ; Table 3.6 Percentage of Farm Households Practicing Freshwater Aquaculture in 2000 and 2004 by Wealth GroupsFigure 3.8 Bioresource Flows of an IAA Pond with Medium-Input Fish Farming in the Mekong Delta; CHAPTER 4 Rainfed Farming Systems in Highlands and Sloping Areas; Table 4.1 Farmers Planting Fodder Shrubs in Kenya, Northern Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda; CHAPTER 5 Rainfed Dry and Cold Farming Systems; Table 5.1 Chemical Characteristics of 924 Soil Samples Collected from Farmers' Fields in Three Districts of Andhra Pradesh, India, 2002-04 ; Table 5.2 Biological and Chemical Properties of Semiarid Tropical Vertisols
• Sommario/riassunto: The Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook is a resource of good practice information on land and natural resource management issues that will be of operational relevance to practitioners in the tropics and sub-tropics. The Sourcebook covers a comprehensive range of topics on the technical issues of land and natural resource management and is presented in a way that will facilitate use by both experts and lay readers. The text is well-illustrated with graphs and photos and for the more specialized reader, key references and web links to institutional reference databases are provided.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sustainable land management sourcebook
• ISBN: 0-8213-7433-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453903303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Agriculture and rural development series.