Focus on cross-scale feedbacks in global sustainable land management

Nitrogen cycling and feedbacks in a global dynamic land model

Global anthropogenic changes in carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles call for modeling tools that are able to address and quantify essential interactions between N, C, and climate in terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we introduce a prognostic N cycle within the Princeton-GFDL LM3V land model. The model captures mechanisms essential for N cycling and their feedbacks on C cycling: N limitation of plant...

Assessing sustainable land management (SLM)

The term ‘sustainable development’ and its component ‘sustainable land management (SLM)’ have been receiving increasing attention in development co-operation and at the global level. However, practical tools which can help local users and multi-disciplinary teams to work together and apply these general concepts at the local to regional levels have emerged only very recently. Some of these tool...

Benefits of sustainaBle land ManageMent

Sustainable management of hill land

One of the major environmental issues currently facing New Zealand is that of the sustainability of pastoral farming on North Island hill country. To be sustainable, a system must be resource conserving, environmentally compatible, socially supportive and commer-cially competitive. The Resource Management Act defines sustainable management as managing the use, development and protection of natu...

Sustainable Land Management - ISBN: 0821365975

This volume is a product of the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this volume do not necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of The World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The bound...