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Overview of land degradation neutrality (LDN) in Europe and Central Asia

Reports & Research
February, 2022
Central Asia, Eastern Europe
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
VGGT
land governance
environment
climate change
land degradation
forest conservation
land conservation
natural resources
natural resources management
Land degradation neutrality (LDN) has been defined by the Parties to the Convention as: A state whereby the amount and quality of land resources, necessary to support ecosystem functions and services and enhance food security, remains stable or increases within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems. The present report is an overview of the status of land degradation neutrality (LDN) in the region including a national overview for the 17 programme countries.
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Agriculture and Rural Cooperation: Examples from Armenia, Georgia and Moldova

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Armenia, Georgia, Moldova
development
rural development
rural planning
agriculture
land economics
farmers
farmers associations
rural population
This paper was prepared within the “Cooperatives and their alternatives” component of the Agrarian Structures Initiative (ASI) which a regional program of FAO in Europe and Central Asia. This paper outlines some of the main issues influencing the development (or not) of farmer and rural organisations and presents in further detail the specific situation in Armenia, Georgia and Moldova. All three countries returned ownership of the majority of land to the rural population.
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Rapport 2021 sur l'écart entre les besoins et les perspectives en matière d'adaptation aux changements climatiques

Alors même que le monde cherche à intensifier ses efforts pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, la nécessité de s'adapter aux effets du changement climatique déjà enclenchés est tout aussi importante.

Reports & Research
November, 2021
Africa, Middle Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, Oceania
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
land governance
environment
urban forestry
water management
land rights
La sixième édition du Rapport 2021 sur l'écart entre les besoins et les perspectives en matière d'adaptation aux changements climatiques : la tempête qui se lève, examine comment le monde s'adapte à ces impacts croissants.

Le rapport constate qu'il est urgent d'augmenter le financement de l'adaptation aux changements climatiques. Les coûts d'adaptation estimés dans les pays en développement sont cinq à dix fois supérieurs aux flux actuels de financement public de l'adaptation, et le fossé du financement de l'adaptation se creuse.
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Development of 3D Spatial Database Enabled IT Framework for Land Agencies: Case Studies of Delhi, India and Prague, Czech Republic

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Canada, Czech Republic, India, British Indian Ocean Territory, United States of America
development
land administration
land management
Rapid urbanization has led vertical infrastructural growth in different countries with differing economic development levels and social systems. The two cities, Prague and Delhi, are the capital cities of their respective countries and have significant vertical developments. However, the two cities represent the urban areas from countries having different economic development levels. The land agencies need to keep monitoring and managing the developments in a city. The paper proposes a conceptual 3D spatial database enabled IT framework for land agencies.
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Exploring the Global Research Trends of Land Use Planning Based on a Bibliometric Analysis: Current Status and Future Prospects

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
China, Italy, Norway, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land-use planning
research
The land topic has generally become a major socioeconomic issue that currently attracts attention globally. To explore the issue, various countries devote much attention to land use planning. This paper searches the Core Collection of the Web of Science and collects 1771 land use planning articles published between 1990 and 2019. The R software, biblioshiny package, and CiteSpace are applied in this paper.
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Inclusionary Housing: An Evaluation of a New Public Rental Housing Governance Instrument in China

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
China, Russia, United States of America
Land & Investments
land-use planning
private sector
Inclusionary housing (IH) is a regulatory instrument adopted by local governments in many countries to produce affordable housing by capturing resources created through the marketplace. In order to assess whether it is efficient, scholarly attention has been widely focused on its evaluation. However, there is a lack of studies evaluating IH from a governance perspective.
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Research on the Distribution and Scale Evolution of Suzhou Gardens under the Urbanization Process from the Tang to the Qing Dynasty

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Australia, China, Russia, United States of America, Vietnam
Urban Tenure
research
scale
urbanization
Suzhou city was the cultural centre of ancient south China. It continues the urban pattern of more than 800 years ago. Suzhou gardens are the essence of Chinese gardening art, as well as the valuable world cultural heritage site. This paper compared the evolution in the distribution and scale of Suzhou gardens among five historical periods, and discussed the influence of urbanization on gardening.
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Relationship between Rural-Urban Land Conservation and Economic Development of Metropolitans in China

Reports & Research
February, 2017
China, Russia, United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
development
land
land conservation
urban land
Paper removed January 20, 2017 at the request of the author. Community/Rural/Urban Development, Land Economics/Use,
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Land Reform Initiatives in China

Reports & Research
February, 2015
China, Norway, Russia, United States of America
land
land reform
Land Economics/Use,
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Legal Instruments to implement the objective “Land Degradation Neutral World” in International Law

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2015
Brazil, United States of America, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
land degradation
The protection of fertile soils is a precondition for sustainable development. In the final document of the conference of the United Nations on sustainable development in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio+20 Conference), the international community thus agreed to strive for a “land degradation neutral world”. The legal study by Ecologic Institute, Berlin, firstly scrutinizes some national legislation (Germany/EU, USA and Brazil) in order to identify legal instruments which are suitable for the implementation of the goal of a “land degradation neutral world”.