3.7 Law Relating to Land, Land Use and Conservation

The land's regimes: the desertification convention (UNCCD 1994) — the drylands' degradation (the Rio's third sibling; the national action programmes); the soil-and-watershed faces (the conservation laws' family); the land-use governance (the planning-and-zoning laws; the land- degradation-neutrality target); the mountains' regimes (the mountain-specific sustainable- development agendas — the mountain countries' advocacy; Nepal's own stake); the land-rights- and-environment interface (the tenure-security's conservation link — the 1950s' Nepal nationalisation's paradox noted in Unit 4).