strategy
Improving data systems on land resources
Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.Agenda 21 recommends:< (a) strengthening information, systematic observation and assessment systems for environmental, economic and social data related to land resources at the global, regional, national and local levels and for land capability and land-use and management patterns;< (b) developing internationally acceptable methodologies for establishment of databases, description of land uses and multiple goal optimization;< (c) strengthening coordination between existing sectoral data systems on land and land resources and strengthening national capacity to gather and assess data;< (d) strengthening and establishing national land-resource data banks, including identification of the location, extent and severity of existing land degradation, as well as areas at risk, and evaluating the progress of conservation and rehabilitation programmes launched in this regard.
Narrower:
Updating land cadastresDeveloping land-use modelsImproving land registration systemsEstablishing land use classificationsDeveloping ortho-photography landbasesImproving analysis of data on land useCreating geographic information systems Facilitates:
Managing landMapping earth resourcesAnalysing land cover changeManaging agricultural landsAssessing state of national land resources Facilitated by:
Disseminating land use information Values:
Land Subjects:
Resources → Resources Geography → Land type/use
Information → Data, codes
→ Systems
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
