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Geoinformation, monitoring and assessment Policy and integrated management
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April 2004 Announcement of a new publication Guidelines for establishing audits of agricultural – environmental hotspotsEnvironment and Natural Resources Working Paper No. 15by Michael H. Glantz
This paper aims to identify key issues related to the purpose and potential value of developing a sustained activity focused on the identification and monitoring of potentially adverse impacts and the responses that might result from interactions between agricultural activities and environmental processes. Where the adverse impacts of such interactions have reached levels detrimental to sustained human activities or to environmental processes, the term "hotspots" is used. The concept of "foreseeability" is introduced and applied to agriculture-environment interactions.
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