Geography → Land Type/Use
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Organizations relating to Land Type/Use
European Land Registry Association / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 2004
West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use / Accra, Ghana
Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management
Committee on Housing and Land Management / Geneva, Switzerland / Est. 1947
International Office of Cadastre and Land Records / Apeldoorn, Netherlands / Est. 1958
International Committee on Contaminated Land / Vienna, Austria / Est. 1993
Global Land Tool Network / Nairobi, Kenya / Est. 2006
World Wetland Network / Est. 2008
International Tundra Experiment / Est. 1990
Survival International / London, UK / Est. 1969
Foundation Working Group International Waterbird and Wetland Research / Nijmegen, Netherlands / Est. 1983
Wetland Link International / Slimbridge, UK / Est. 1991
Land Research Action Network
Land Healers Foundation / Est. 2018
Landesa - Rural Development Institute / Seattle WA, USA / Est. 1967
World Land Trust / Halesworth, UK / Est. 1989
International Alliance on Land Tenure and Administration / Groningen, Netherlands / Est. 2008
International Union for Arrangements concerning Laws and Customs during Wars on Land / Est. 1899
EUROCOM / Est. 1970
Groupe international de coopération et de recherche en documentation: planification territoriale - habitat - information / Est. 1966
Internationale Gesellschaft für Moorforschung / Est. 1955
ASEAN Research and Training Centre for Land and Forest Fire Management / Tengah, Indonesia
Women and Land Rights in Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
Kushiro International Wetland Centre / Kushiro, Japan / Est. 1995
Christian Missions in Many Lands / Spring Lake NJ, USA / Est. 1921
Lambda Alpha International / Wheaton IL, USA / Est. 1930
Landlife International / Accra, Ghana
Inuvialuit Regional Corporation / Inuvik NT, Canada / Est. 1984
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-based Sources / Est. 1974
Protocol on Protection of the Black Sea Marine Environment Against Pollution from Land-based Sources / Istanbul, Türkiye / Est. 1992
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat / Paris, France / Est. 1971
Protocol for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land-Based Sources and Activities / Est. 1980
Amendments to the Protocol for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution from Land-based Sources and Activities / Est. 1996
Convention Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in War on Land, 1907 / Est. 1907
Protocol on the Prevention, Reduction and Control of Land-based Sources and Activities / Est. 1999
International Convention Concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land / Est. 1907
Protocol Amending the Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-based Sources, Paris / Est. 1986
Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Southern South American Migratory Grassland Bird Species and Their Habitats / Bonn, Germany / Est. 2007
Protocol to Amend the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat / Paris, France / Est. 1982
Protocol Amending the Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-based Sources, Kuwait / Safat, Kuwait / Est. 1990
Convention Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in War on Land, 1901 / Est. 1901
International Convention with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War by Land / Est. 1899
International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement / Wageningen, Netherlands / Est. 1955
Commonwealth Board of Surveying Education / Est. 1973
International Society for Integrated Land Management / Ghent, Belgium / Est. 1996
Association pour la promotion de l'élevage au Sahel et en savane / Dori, Burkina Faso
International Center for Land Policy Studies / Cambridge MA, USA
World Land Use Survey / Est. 1951
Greening the Danube
View all profiles (171 total) in the Yearbook of International Organizations
World Problems relating to Land Type/Use
From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human PotentialThreatened species of Scirtidae
Gap in agricultural technology among countries
Blocked land negotiations
Soil degradation
Deforestation
Environmental hazards of empolderment of wetlands
Disappearance of common land
Destruction of wetland environments
Threatened tropical humid forest biome
Threatened peatland habitats
Threatened mangrove wetland habitats
Shortage of waste landfill sites
Unsustainable development of forest lands
Land subsidence
Threatened broad-leaved deciduous woodland habitats
Misuse of agricultural land for fuel production
Blighted land use
Defective land use planning
Land erosion brought about by site development
Misuse of grassland and rangeland
Threatened temperate grassland habitats
Threatened xeromorphic shrubland habitats
Threatened palustrine wetland habitats
Unavailability of farming land
Threatened tropical grassland habitats
Action Strategies relating to Land Type/Use
From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human PotentialImproving accessibility of land resources
Reforesting
Strengthening local organizations responsible for land management
Alerting wetland desecration
Campaigning to save forests
Providing affordable loans to women
Conducting environmental site assessment
Terracing land
Protecting mountain habitats
Protecting wetland ecosystems
Monitoring wetland biodiversity conservation
Analysing land cover change
Instituting integrated management of water catchments
Providing alternatives to informal land supply
Disseminating land use information
Linking local and global commons
Incorporating sustainable indigenous management systems for land resources
Preserving land rights of the poor
Exchanging information on participatory planning of land resources
Improving analysis of data on land use
Expanding partnerships for managing land resources
Improving land registration systems
Delegating land resource management responsibilities to rural organizations
Living off the land
Evaluating effectiveness of land resource conservation programmes
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