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

• 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
• ISBN: 1-280-50349-1; 9786610503490; 0-8213-6598-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910144640403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Agriculture and rural development series.; World Bank e-Library.