Indicators of Land Quality and Sustainable Land Management: An Annotated BibliographyThis bibliography is a review of available information on indicators of sustainable land management and land quality. The report compiles, organizes, and summarizes available data and information on indicators and makes them accessible through the World Wide Web, email, and as printed reports. It is useful for research on indicators of sustainability, as well as for decisionmakers faced with implementing a sustainable land management component in rural development projects. |
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ABSTRACT Accessibility Agri-Food Canada Agricultural Research Agriculture and Agri-Food Agroecosystem approach assessment biodiversity Center CGIAR Compiler components conservation criteria crops databases datasets decisionmakers Description desertification Developing Indicators Dumanski ecological economic ecosystem Environment Environmental Indicators erosion Evaluation of Sustainable farmers fertilizers FESLM forest area forest management forestry global habitat impact indicators Indicators of Sustainable indigenous knowledge Information System inputs KEY WORDS land degradation Land Quality Indicators land resources land-use metadata Methods of measurement natural resources nitrogen nutrient balance organic percent pesticide Pillar poverty line production programs Protection Indicator records regional relevant resource management risk rural development salinity Scope social soil and water Soil Degradation soil quality soil salinity species surface balance Sustainable Agriculture sustainable development sustainable forest management sustainable land management tion UNEP Unit of measurement viability water quality World Bank World Bank Group World Resources Institute
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Page 26 - These are areas of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources. The protected areas are managed through legal or other effective means.
Page 105 - In this context sustainable land management (SLM) combines technologies, policies, and activities aimed at integrating socioeconomic principles with environmental concerns so as to...
Page 38 - Green adjustments to GDP', Resources Policy, 20, pp 155-68 Hamilton, K and Atkinson, G (1996) 'Air Pollution and Green Accounts', Energy Policy...
Page 69 - Effective mechanisms exist for two-way communication related to forest management among stakeholders > 50% of timber company personnel and forestry officials speak one or more local language, or > 50...
Page 103 - sustainable land management" combines technologies, policies and activities aimed at integrating socio-economic principles with environmental concerns so as to...
Page 69 - Silvicultural systems prescribed and appropriate to forest type and produce grown • Yield regulation by area and /or volume prescribed...
Page 61 - The suggested indicators included nutrient input, pesticide and water use, land use and conservation, soil quality, greenhouse gases, biodiversity, wildlife habitats, landscape, farm management, farm financial resources, and socio-cultural issues.
Page 22 - The area figure does not give any indication of the quality of the forest, its ecosystem context, nor forest values or practices. The indicator does not provide information on the degradation of the forest resources in a country. The total forest area in a country might remain unchanged, but the quality of the forest can become degraded. Due to the definition used, the indicator covers a very diversified range of forests ranging from open tree savanna to very dense tropical forests.