TY - BOOK ID - 47735547 TI - Sustainable land management : challenges, opportunities, and trade-offs. AU - World Bank Staff AU - World Bank. PY - 2006 SN - 0821365975 0821365983 9780821365977 9780821365984 9786610503490 1280503491 PB - Washington, DC : World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural techniques KW - Economic geography KW - Agricultural development projects KW - Land use KW - Sustainable development. KW - Environmental aspects. KW - Development, Sustainable KW - Ecologically sustainable development KW - Economic development, Sustainable KW - Economic sustainability KW - ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) KW - Smart growth KW - Sustainable development KW - Sustainable economic development KW - Economic development KW - Land KW - Land utilization KW - Use of land KW - Utilization of land KW - Economics KW - Land cover KW - Landscape assessment KW - NIMBY syndrome KW - Development projects, Agricultural KW - Projects, Agricultural development KW - Agricultural assistance KW - Agriculture KW - Economic development projects KW - Rural development projects KW - Environmental aspects KW - Economic aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:47735547 AB - Land is the integrating component of all livelihoods depending on farm, forest, rangeland, or water (rivers, lakes, coastal marine) habitats. Due to varying political, social, and economic factors, the heavy use of natural resources to supply a rapidly growing global population and economy has resulted in the unintended mismanagement and degradation of land and ecosystems. Sustainable Land Management provides strategic focus to the implementation of sustainable land management (SLM) components of the World Bank's development strategies. SLM is a knowledge-based procedure that integrates land, ER -