Indicators of Land Quality and Sustainable Land Management: An Annotated Bibliography (Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Series. Rural Development)

323 Pages·1998·0.77 MB·English

by  J. Dumanski

Indicators of Land Quality and Sustainable
Land Management : An Annotated
title: Bibliography Environmentally and Socially
Sustainable Development Series. Rural
Development
Dumanski, J.; Gameda, S.; Pieri, Christian
author:
J. M. G.
publisher: World Bank
isbn10 | asin: 0821342088
print isbn13: 9780821342084
ebook isbn13: 9780585183152
language: English
Land capability for agriculture--Evaluation-
-Bibliography, Land use, Rural--Evaluation-
subject -Bibliography, Agricultural ecology--
Bibliography, Environmental indicators--
Bibliography.
publication date: 1998
lcc: Z5074.L27D85 1998eb
ddc: 016.33376
Land capability for agriculture--Evaluation-
-Bibliography, Land use, Rural--Evaluation-
subject: -Bibliography, Agricultural ecology--
Bibliography, Environmental indicators--
Bibliography.
Page i
Indicators of Land Quality and Sustainable Land
Management
An Annotated Bibliography
A joint publication of the World Bank and Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada
ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
Rural Development
Julian Dumanski
Samuel Gameda
Christian Pieri
The World Bank
Washington, D.C.
Page ii
Copyright © 1998
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This report has been prepared by the staff of the World Bank. The
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Cover image: Landsat 5 image, island of Seram, Maluku Province,
Indonesia (path 108/row 62, May 7, 1997). Prepared by Petter
Nyborg, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Environment
Family, World Bank.
Julian Dumanski is a consultant and Christian Pieri is senior
agroecologist in the Rural Development Family, Environmentally and
Socially Sustainable Development Network, World Bank. Samuel
Gameda is a research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food
Canada (Ottawa).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dumanski, J.
Indicators of land quality and sustainable land management: an
annotated bibliography / Julian Dumanski, Samuel Gameda, and
Christian Pieri.
P. cm. (Environmentally and socially sustainable
development series. Rural development)
ISBN 0-8213-4208-8
1. Land capability for agriculture Evaluation Bibliography.
2. Land use, Rural Evaluation Bibliography. 3. Agricultural
ecology Bibliography. 4. Environmental indicators Bibliography.
I. Gameda, S. II. Pieri, Christian J.M.G. III. Title.
IV. Series.
Z5074.L27085 1998
[S591]
016.33376 dc21 98-14345
CIP
The text and the cover are printed on recycled paper, with a flood
aqueous coating on the cover.
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Contents
Foreword v
Acknowledgments vi
Abbreviations and Acronyms vii
Introduction 1
Summary 3
Annotated Bibliography 7
Catalogue of URL Sites for Indicators 94
Appendixes
1. What Is Sustainable Land Management? 105
2. Applications of Indicators for Rural Development 111
Projects
References 115
Index to the Bibliography 117
Index to Relevant World Wide Web Sites 123
Page v
Foreword
In 1997 the United Nations General Assembly held a special session
on the global environment, Rio+5. During this session a set of priority
actions was announced by the World Bank Group, including increased
activities on issues such as desertification and land degradation, which
are to be delivered through a revitalized rural strategy. Some key
components of this new strategy are sustainable agricultural
development, conservation of natural resources, and promotion of
sustainable land management, including the development of indicators
and procedures for monitoring the impacts of rural development
policies and programs on the productivity and quality of land
resources (World Bank, 1997).
This bibliography is an important building block for global and
national programs on sustainable land management. Since the 1992
Rio Earth Summit (UNCED), there have been innumerable attempts
to develop indicators, a virtual "indicator factory," but with little or no
coordination. Starting in 1992, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
along with the International Board for Soil Research and Management
(IBSRAM), the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and
the International Society of Soil Science, began to develop the
concept of sustainable land management. In 1995 the World Bank
Group established a global coalition with the U.N. Environment
Programme (UNEP), U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), FAO,
and Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR) to develop and test indicators of land quality. These
institutions took the lead in producing this annotated bibliography,
which assembles and organizes the available scientific information on
indicators of land quality and sustainable land management to make
these data more user-friendly and accessible to those who need it.
These indicators are intended to help monitor whether human
interventions in the landscape are leading toward or away from
sustainability.
This bibliography includes selected publications and reports from the
international literature, as well as some of the most useful URL sites
on the World Wide Web (WWW). It represents a considerable volume
of work, but much remains to be done. On behalf of our partners, I
invite others to contribute their knowledge and experience and to join
this initiative to develop improved indicators and procedures for
monitoring and evaluating sustainable land management.
ISMAIL SERAGELDIN
VICE PRESIDENT
ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
Page vi
Acknowledgments
The authors and sponsoring agencies for this volume would like to
gratefully acknowledge the contributions made by others toward the
publication process. Both the International Development Research
Center (IDRC) and the International Board for Soil Research and
Management (IBSRAM) collaborated in this effort and supported the
work of Brenda Heald in compiling some of the original annotations.
During the project Julian Dumanski was partly supported by the
Danish Trust Funds, in cooperation with John Dixon of the
Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network of
the World Bank Group. The report was reviewed by D. F. Acton, G.
Roloff, and Valerie Kirkwood of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
and Paul O'Connell and David Gray of the World Bank. Word
processing was done by Sarian Akibo-Betts. Entry of the document on
the WWW and hyperlinking it with other source documents in the
'Land and Water Knowledge Management Node' was achieved by
staff from the Consortium for International Earth Science Network
(CIESIN). Alison Raphael copyedited the volume, with editorial
contributions by Alicia Hetzner and Virginia Hitchcock. The report
was desktopped by Gaudencio Dizon.
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
AAFC Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
ABARE Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
AEI Agri-environmental indicator
AEZ Agro-ecological zoning
CAPPA Computerized system for agricultural and population planning
assistance
CATI Computer-assisted telephone interviewing
CCD Convention to Combat Desertification
CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CIAT Centre Internacional de Agricultura Tropical
CIDA Canadian International Development Agency
CIESIN Consortium for International Earth Science Interaction Network
CIFOR Center for International Forestry Research
CIMMYTCentro Intenacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo
CIRAN Center for International Research and Advisory Networks
CSD Commission for Sustainable Development
DDBS Development data bases service
DSR Driving force-state-response
ENTRI Environmental treaties and resource indicators
EPI Environmental performance indicators
ERDC Electronic Research Database Committee
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FESLM Framework for evaluation of sustainable land management
FMU Forest management unit
GDP Gross domestic product
GHG Greenhouse gas
GTOS Global Terrestrial Observation System
GTZ Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit