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… et al. 2016). Wilderness areas are also important as “control” areas, i.e. as benchmarks for natural ecological … disaster risk reduction through coastal protection and flood regulation. This is particularly true in the regions … the very handmark of the makers. Then down on the flood plains and up and under the escarpment there are the …

… the ability of both governments and stakeholders to control agricultural and other risks by improving techniques … These include a regulatory role in the water cycle, flood abatement, aquifer re- charge, processing of nutrients … especially where surrounded by shallow riparian zones, flood prone meadows and wet forests. These characteristics …

… only the loss of the more tangible wetland values such as flood control, groundwater replenish- ment, nutrient cycling, etc., …

… its core area, as well as additional terrestrial areas and flood plains amounting to a total surface area of 180,000 ha. … nitrogen fixation, soil carbon sequestration, erosion control, plant pollination, biological pest control, organic waste degradation, and mitigation of climate …

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Guideline 5.5 Decision-making control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … will be considered sacred, but because it is under the control of faith communities these lands could be more … religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the …