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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation
    July, 2017
    Spain

    La presente Ley del Suelo y de los Espacios Naturales Protegidos de Canarias, tiene por objeto regular en el ámbito de la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias: 1) El régimen jurídico general de los recursos naturales, en particular del suelo, la ordenación del territorio y la ordenación urbanística; 2) La coordinación de las políticas públicas relativas a la planificación y gestión del territorio y a la protección del medioambiente; 3) La intervención en las actividades públicas y privadas con incidencia relevante sobre el territorio y los recursos naturales; 4) La protección de la legalidad urba

  2. Library Resource
    May, 2017
    Liberia

    This Code of Forest Harvesting Practices seeks to provide a set of guidelines to forest operators for carrying out sustainable and improved harvesting operations. It applies to all harvesting operations within Liberia’s natural forests. It includes among other things, social environmental and social performance requirements for timber logging and post-harvesting activities.

  3. Library Resource
    Regulations
    April, 2017
    United Kingdom

    These Regulations, together with a number of other statutory instruments made at the same time, establish a new procedure for referred applications and appeals in Wales ("referred applications" are applications for planning permission, listed building consent, conservation area consent and hazardous substances consent referred to the Welsh Ministers for determination.

  4. Library Resource
    Legislation
    July, 2017
    Lithuania

    Article 11 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Transfer of forest land into other categories of land shall be prohibited in the following cases: (a) Group I forests; (b) Group II - protection of ecosystems in forests, except in specified cases; (c) in groups III - in forests of protected areas and in protected areas of state reserves, except for specific cases; (d) in other forests located one kilometer from the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Spit, in recreational forests of Group II and in protected areas, field protection and national park protection zones of Group III except for

  5. Library Resource
    National Policies
    January, 2017
    Jamaica

    The Vision of the Forest Policy is that: by 2062, Jamaica’s forests and its biodiversity are sufficiently restored and sustainably managed, so once again the island can adequately be described as “the land of wood and water”, capable of meeting the social, economic and ecological needs of current and future generations.

  6. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2017
    Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam

    The Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) project and the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) co-hosted the “Mekong Region Customary Tenure Workshop” on 7-9 March 2017 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. This report outlines the main findings of the workshop, illustrated by some statements and case studies as presented by participants.

  7. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2017

    Competing interests in land for agriculture and commodity production in tropical human-dominated landscapes make forests and biodiversity conservation particularly challenging. Establishment of protected areas in this regard is not functioning as expected due to exclusive ecological focus and poor recognition of local people’s traditional forest use and dependence. In recent years, multifunctional land-use systems such as agroforestry have widely been promoted as an efficient land-use in such circumstances, although their conservation effectiveness remains poorly investigated.

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