sustainable soil management |
Sets of activities that maintain or enhance the supporting, provisioning, regulating and cultural services provided by soils without significantly impairing either the soil functions that enable those services or biodiversity.
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Land degradation and restoration assessment |
sustainable use |
The use of components of biological diversity in a way and at a rate that does not lead to the long-term decline of biological diversity, thereby maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of present and future generations (CBD, 1992).
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Global assessment (1st work programme) |
sustainable use (of biodiversity and its components) |
The use of components of biological diversity in a way and at a rate that does not lead to the long-term decline of biological diversity, thereby maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of present and future generations.
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Land degradation and restoration assessment, Asia-Pacific assessment, Americas assessment, Africa assessment, Europe and Central Asia assessment |
sustainable use |
Sustainable use is defined by the Convention on Biological Diversity since 1992 as “the use of components of biological diversity in a way and at a rate that does not lead to the long-term decline of biological diversity, thereby maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of present and future generations.” This assessment notes that sustainable use is also an outcome of social-ecological systems that aim to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem functions in the long term, while contributing to human well-being. It is a dynamic process as wild species, the ecosystems that support them and the social systems within which uses occur, change over time and space. This assessment notes the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainability as identified by the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and its Sustainable Development Goals.
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Sustainable use assessment |
sustainably-intensified agriculture |
Any system that is designed to produce high yields but with careful management and selection of inputs to reduce harm to the environment. It includes development and use of crop and animal varieties better suited to their environment, use of new technology for pest and disease control and for input management.
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Pollination assessment |
swidden |
See Shifting cultivation.
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Asia-Pacific assessment |
swidden agriculture |
See 'Shifting cultivation'.
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Global assessment (1st work programme) |
swidden |
Swidden farming, also known as shifting cultivation or milpa in Latin America, is conventionally defined as an agricultural system in which temporary clearings are cropped for fewer years than they are allowed to remain fallow.
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Land degradation and restoration assessment |
symbiosis |
A long-term interaction between two species that can often have mutual benefit for both species (IUCN, 2012a).
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Global assessment (1st work programme) |
synergies |
See trade-off.
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Europe and Central Asia assessment, Americas assessment |
synergy |
The interaction or cooperation of two or more organisms, organizations, substances, or other agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects.
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Pollination assessment |
synthesis report |
Synthesis reports further distil and integrate materials drawing from assessment reports, are written in a non‑technical style suitable for policymakers and address a broad range of policy-relevant questions. They are to be composed of two sections: a summary for policymakers, and a full report.
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synthesis report |
Synthesis reports further distil and integrate materials drawing from assessment reports, are written in a nontechnical style suitable for policymakers and address a broad range of policy-relevant questions. They are to be composed of two sections: a summary for policymakers, and a full report.
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Asia-Pacific assessment |
synthetic biology |
Adopted as a working definition definition by the Convention on Biological Diversity AHTEG on Synthetic Biology, Synthetic biology was defined as “a further development and new dimension of modern biotechnology that combines science, technology, and engineering to facilitate and accelerate the understanding, design, redesign, manufacture and/or modification of genetic materials, living organisms and biological systems”.
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Sustainable use assessment |
systematic review |
Collation and critical analysis of multiple research studies or papers, using a structured methodology.
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Sustainable use assessment, Asia-Pacific assessment |
systems of life |
The complex, integrated interactions of living beings (including humans), such as the cultural attributes of communities, socio-economic conditions and biophysical variables.
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Scenarios and models assessment |