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DOI | 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.12.017 |
Contribution of community-based initiatives to the sustainable development goal of Land Degradation Neutrality | |
van Haren N.; Fleiner R.; Liniger H.; Harari N. | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 14629011 |
起始页码 | 211 |
结束页码 | 219 |
卷号 | 94 |
英文摘要 | Where poor people rely on land that is degraded or vulnerable to degradation, they are at high risk of being locked into a downward spiral of poverty. It is estimated that over 1.5 billion people are affected by land degradation (UNCCD, 2014). The World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) and Both ENDS and their networks of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), promote sustainable land management (SLM) as a necessary shift from degrading the land to sustainable use and restoration. However, many SLM initiatives started by communities remain below the radar of policy makers and government institutions and therefore, being unrecognised for what they are, do not get institutional support, i.e. an enabling policy environment, economic incentives, and the technical support that they need to develop and be adopted by others. This paper analyses the contribution of community-based initiatives to SDG15.3: Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), and the three LDN indicators: land cover, land productivity and carbon stocks. In addition, enabling conditions for community-based initiatives to contribute to the implementation of LDN are identified and discussed. The contribution of community-based SLM initiatives to LDN will be illustrated by the SLM practices documented in WOCAT's global database and by the example of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). It is concluded that community-based SLM initiatives can make a relevant contribution to addressing land degradation and achieving LDN, particularly so by improving land productivity and carbon stocks, and to some extent and in the case of FMNR, vegetation cover also. Creating enabling conditions for community-based initiatives to develop include: knowledge development by scientists, local communities and policy makers, inclusive land governance (land tenure security, strengthening institutions and the recognition of local knowledge), and access to technical and financial resources. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd |
英文关键词 | Civil Society Organisations; Community-based initiatives; Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration; Land degradation; Land Degradation Neutrality; Sustainable Land Management |
scopus关键词 | carbon; Article; community ecology; degradation; land use; priority journal; productivity; sustainable development; vegetation |
来源期刊 | Environmental Science and Policy
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/176205 |
作者单位 | Both ENDS, Amsterdam, Netherlands; University of Bern, Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Bern, Switzerland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | van Haren N.,Fleiner R.,Liniger H.,et al. Contribution of community-based initiatives to the sustainable development goal of Land Degradation Neutrality[J],2019,94. |
APA | van Haren N.,Fleiner R.,Liniger H.,&Harari N..(2019).Contribution of community-based initiatives to the sustainable development goal of Land Degradation Neutrality.Environmental Science and Policy,94. |
MLA | van Haren N.,et al."Contribution of community-based initiatives to the sustainable development goal of Land Degradation Neutrality".Environmental Science and Policy 94(2019). |
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