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Strengthening Evidence-Based Forest Policy-Making. Linking Forest Monitoring with National Forest Programmes

Reports & Research
December, 2014
United States of America, Kenya, Zambia, Gambia, Chile, Peru, Canada, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Finland, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Italy, Tanzania, Ecuador, Netherlands, Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
land governance
This paper proposes an approach to assist countries in ensuring that NFM planning more strongly meets the needs and demands of forest-related national policy processes. The approach is based on an understanding that there is a multiplicity of issues and legitimate interests related to forests that require multipurpose information systems.
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Report of the Twenty-second session of the Committee on Forestry

Reports & Research
August, 2014
Egypt, Bangladesh, United States of America, Zambia, Peru, Indonesia, Austria, Guyana, Republic of Korea, Uruguay, New Zealand, Kenya, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Gabon, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Chad, Togo, Norway, Greece
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
forest land
land degradation
Meeting Name: Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2014/REP
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PRONEA- Progeama Nacional de Educação Ambiental

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2014
Brazil
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
community forestry
environment
food security
forest conservation
forest land
forest management plans
forestry
land governance
natural resources management
nature reserves
sustainable development
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
A Educação Ambiental surge como política pública no
Brasil com o estabelecimento da Política Nacional
de Meio Ambiente – PNMA (Lei nº 6.938, de 1981),
no contexto da Conferência Intergovernamental de Educação Ambiental de Tbilisi (1977), que destacou o processo educativo como dinâmico, integrativo, permanente e transformador, justamente porque possibilita a aquisição de conhecimentos e habilidades de forma participativa. Desde então, outros marcos legais foram estabelecidos.
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Using� spectral analysis� of� Landsat-5� TM� images to map� coastal� wetlands� in the Amazon River mouth, Brazil

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land cover
climate change
Tropical coastal wetlands form complex and dynamic ecosystems based on a mixture of vegetation, soil, and water components. Optical remotely sensed data have often been used to characterize and monitor these ecosystems, which are among the environments most threatened by climate change and anthropogenic activity worldwide.
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When enough should be enough: improving the use of current agricultural lands could meet production demands and spare natural habitats in Brazil.

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
climate change
land use
Providing food and other products to a growing human population while safeguarding natural ecosystems and the provision of their services is a significant scientific, social and political challenge. With food demand likely to double over the next four decades, anthropization is already driving climate change and is the principal force behind species extinction, among other environmental impacts. The sustainable intensification of production on current agricultural lands has been suggested as a key solution to the competition for land between agriculture and natural ecosystems.
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Dinámica y consecuencias del cambio en la cobertura y el uso del suelo en el Chaco semi-árido

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, South America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
land use
forest land
forest management plans
forest conservation
La deforestación en Sudamérica afecta principalmente a tres ecosistemas: El Cerrado en Brasil, la selva de Chiquitanos en Bolivia y el Gran Chaco en Bolivia, Paraguay y Argentina, siendo en estos dos últimos países en donde ocurren las mayores transformaciones del paisaje para la producción de commodities para exportación.
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The challenge of establishing REDD+ on the ground: Insights from 23 subnational initiatives in six countries

January, 2014
Indonesia, Tanzania, Brazil, Vietnam, Cameroon, Peru
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
climate change
land tenure
Since 2007, it has been hoped that REDD+ would deliver on the 3E+ criteria (effectiveness, efficiency, equity, social and environmental co?benefits) for strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This report highlights that the early enthusiasm for REDD+ has dissipated among some stakeholders – this is largely attributed to the failure to attain an international climate change agreement.
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From Brazilian fields to Norwegian farms

January, 2014
Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
environment
deforestation
land tenure
• Brazil has a Federal Constitution and consolidated legislation that provide for the protection of the environment, health and welfare of workers in rural areas.
• The large-scale agricultural export model used in Brazil, i.e. the state of Mato Grosso and particularly in the region where the soy exported to Norway is produced, has been causing severe social and environmental impacts.
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Law No. 13.214 establishing the principles, guidelines and objectives of the Territorial Development Policy of the State of Bahia.

Legislation
December, 2014
Brazil
Land, Climate Change & Environment
environment
land-use planning
This Law, consisting of 3 Chapters divided into 22 articles, establishes the principles, guidelines and objectives of the Territorial Development Policy of the State of Bahia, and creates the State Council of Territorial Development (CEDETER) and the Territorial Sustainable Development Collegial Agencies (CODETERs). It establishes spaces of social participation and relationship between the representations of the civil society and government authorities federal, state and municipal.
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Smallholder Specialization Strategies along the Forest Transition Curve in Southwestern Amazonia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Bolivia, Brazil, South America
Forest Landscape Restoration
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
protected areas