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Sustainable land management : : challenges, opportunities, and trade-offs



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Titolo: Sustainable land management : : challenges, opportunities, and trade-offs Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Washington, DC : , : World Bank, , [2006]
copyright 2006
Descrizione fisica: xx, 87 pages : illustrations, maps ; ; 23 cm
Disciplina: 33.73
Soggetto topico: Agricultural development projects - Environmental aspects
Land use - Environmental aspects
Sustainable development
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-82) and index.
Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Overview; 1. Introduction; 2. Incidence and Effects of Land Degradation; Boxes; Figures; 3. Challenges to Sustainable Land Management; 4. SLM Interventions: An Agri-technical Perspective; Tables; 5. The Bank's Evolving SLM Portfolio; 6. SLM: Strategic Options; Appendix: Land Management and a Useful Plant Diversity Index ("V" Index); Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land Management provides strategic focus to the implementation of sustainable land management (SLM) components of the World Bank's development strategies. SLM is a knowledge-based procedure that integrates land,
Titolo autorizzato: Sustainable land management  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-50349-1
9786610503490
0-8213-6598-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996320167003316
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Serie: Agriculture and rural development series. World Bank e-Library.