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   Base de référence mondiale pour les ressources en sols 2014, Mise à jour 2015. Système international de classification des sols pour nommer les sols et élaborer des légendes de cartes pédologiques

   Journal Articles & Books

   June, 2018

   France, Belgium, United States of America, Philippines, Canada, Nicaragua, Bulgaria, Madagascar, Denmark, Luxembourg, Poland, Netherlands, Venezuela, New Zealand, Brazil, Ghana

   land-use planning

   land use

   land use mapping

   La première édition de la Base de référence mondiale pour les ressources en sols (WRB) a été publiée lors du 16ème Congrès Mondial de la Science du Sol à Montpellier en 1998. Lors du même événement, elle fut adoptée comme système de corrélation des sols et de communication internationale de l'Union Internationale des Sciences du Sol (IUSS). La seconde édition de la WRB a été publiée au 18ème Congrès Mondial à Philadelphie en 2006.<p></p>Après huit années de tests intensifs et de collectes de données dans le monde entier, la troisième édition de la WRB est publiée en 2014.

2. Library Resource

   

   Multilingual thesaurus on land tenure

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2003

   France, Switzerland, United States of America, Fiji, Afghanistan, Samoa, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Australia, Jamaica, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Laos, Japan, Uganda, Italy, Ecuador, Cambodia, India

   Land & Investments

   land administration

   land economics

   land information systems

   tenant's rights

   land use

   land tax

   land management

   land registration

   land transfers

   land-use planning

   property rights

   land tenure

   land policies

   land

   water rights

   land rights

   land access

   private ownership

   land reform

   land use mapping

   agrarian reform

   land ownership
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   State of the Art Report on Global and Regional Soil Information: Where are we? Where to go?

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2013

   Angola, Greece, United States of America, Rwanda, China, Namibia, Australia, Eswatini, Canada, Iran, Iceland, Thailand, New Zealand, Kenya, Mozambique, Jordan, South Africa, Vietnam, Italy, Tanzania, Botswana, Kazakhstan, Mongolia

   land information systems

   land use mapping

   Under the current challenges of food security, climate change adaptation and mitigation, further provision of ecosystem services and sustainable intensification of agriculture, soil information becomes fundamental to guide wise policies and decisions. This document reviews the present availability of soil information from legacy maps and reports and from ongoing Digital Soil Mapping efforts. Currently, the soil science community is limited in its capacity to provide accurate and updated information to the different soil users.

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   Logging, Mining, And Agricultural Concessions Data Transparency: A Survey Of 14 Forested Countries

   Reports & Research

   March, 2017

   Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Russia

   Forest Tenure

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   concession (land)

   deforestation

   environment

   extractive industries

   forest land

   geographical information systems

   land allocation

   land information systems

   land management

   land use

   land use mapping

   natural resources management

   sustainable land management

   sustainable land use

   Global demand for timber, agricultural commodities, and extractives is a significant driver of deforestation worldwide. Transparent land-concessions data for these large-scale commercial activities are essential to understand drivers of forest loss, monitor environmental impacts of ongoing activities, and ensure efficient and sustainable allocation of land.