Sentences with phrase «improved land use practices»

McLean said a complete picture of the diversity of arsenate - reducing bacteria in a particular environment could lead to improved land use practices and awareness of human activities that may exacerbate the problem.

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The study was therefore able to provide scientific evidence that agroforestry, combined with improved land management practices, are an effective land - use strategy for the watersheds.

They initiate biodiversity conservation actions and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land use practices for soil, water and natural forest with the aim to increase land productivity and improve water flow.

In 2012, Pashon launched Sustainable Integrations (SI), a Detroit - based 501 (c)(3) organization that combats environmental deterioration through learning, educating, leading, and serving the public with programs and services on sustainable land use, ecosystem remediation, renewable energy practices, and improved waste management.

Other efforts will focus on adopting sustainable agricultural practices and restoring degraded lands abutting conservation areas to improve land use management and livelihoods.

Global models incorporating land use, such as Integrated Assessment Models and Earth System Models, are improving their accounting of the complex biogeophysical and biogeochemical effects of heterogeneous land management practices within broad land use classes (Erb et al 2016).

These entail contracts and subsidies to private landowners to improve or change land - use management practices.

First, we assumed that reforestation and improved agricultural and forestry practices can suck up the net land use carbon of the past.

The land sector is responsible for about a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and changes to land - use practices have the potential to significantly contribute to reducing emissions, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, improving rural livelihoods, and promoting countries» ability to adapt to a changing climate.

Specifically, areas the authors suggest focusing on are restoring formerly forested land, preventing loss of existing forests, improving forestry and livestock management practices, using smarter application of chemical fertilizers and supporting agroforestry, and preventing the draining and conversion of wetlands — most prominently for palm oil cultivation.

What the Annual Review authors do point out, though, is that land use and agricultural practices can simultaneously trap carbon in soil — helping the fight against warming — and improving yields for all the things humanity's swelling population will need in coming decades.

Global, national, regional and local leaders are being asked by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to make bold and long - term decisions on ways to invest in more resilient infrastructure, revise land use, enhance coordination, update building codes, adjust natural resource management and other practices to improve the resilience of their communities to the impact of climate change.