). The primary purpose of the study is to fill in that gap by reviewing and assessing different livelihood models and land …

Land use planning is one of the most important policy instruments for urban and regional development aiming to meet the … social well-being. The process of land use planning relies on working with geospatial data from different sources and often … relevant data in open and standardized formats can lead to better decisions regarding land use planning while reducing the cost …

synergies between different, and often competing, sector-focused goals. Integrated land use initiatives offer a holistic … land uses across landscapes, considering both the natural and human systems that depend on them. The objective of this … report is to take stock of lessons learned, document best practices from a range of integrated land use initiatives …

nitrous oxide, N2O) associated to agricultural land management can be significant and must be assessed to calculate total net … agricultural lands that are a direct consequence of land management. Chapter one introduces soil carbon and the agricultural …

has a wide range of impacts on public health, ecosystems, biodiversity, and economies and can occur during each stage of …

fleets. These substantially harm public health, productivity and efficiency in urban mobility. Kosovo is implementing the EU … social matters with the EU. On 6 February 2018, the European Commission published its expansion plan to cover up to six … Western Balkan countries including Kosovo with potential accession as members of the EU after 2025. This is relevant for …

Unlocking Nature-Smart Development: An Approach Paper on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services is part of a series of … biodiversity and ecosystem services. The paper makes the case that the rapid global decline in nature is a development issue and … development agendas. As countries formulate a set of new global biodiversity targets, this paper also offers insights that could …

richest and most endangered terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and species. The biodiversity endowment is crucial to the Lao … greener economic growth model. But Lao biodiversity is in danger. The highest priority threats to the country's biodiversity … actions to ameliorate the main threats to biodiversity and to sustainably utilize the biodiversity assets to help drive Lao …

Biodiversity represents the variety of life on Earth, including the full range of ecosystems, species, and genes …. Biodiversity conservation efforts to date have achieved a great deal to help secure the continued functioning of many threatened … ecosystems and the survival of numerous species. Biodiversity offsets can: (i) improve the conservation outcomes from large …