Search results
9 Results
Sorted by relevance
Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world
… as instruments for achieving it. Particularly in land and water allocation, and the settling of disputes related to … decentralised territories, including chiefdoms and territorial communities respectively, as having … The Ukraine establishes a right to self-government for territorial communities.211 Serbia allows limited …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources and the Poverty Reduction and Environment … San Juan Community Council (ASOCASAN) which is an ethno-territorial non-profit organisation established in accordance … is described by the San Juan Protocol as ‘integrated territorial management’. 2.3 Legal Framework The Protocol is …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… as embedded within a network of relationships with land, water, plants, and animals, expressed through culture and … such as community forestry enterprises, community territorial planning and payment for ecosystem services, all … use of biological resources and associated TK within the territorial jurisdiction of the BMC. Under Rule 22 (6) of the …
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… to cooperation in the joint management of shared water resources. Considering the authoritative character of … and as a model for ad hoc agreements regulating specific water bodies. http://www.unwatercoursesconvention.org/ … must “cooperate on the basis of sovereign equality, territorial integrity, mutual benefit and good faith in order …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… wild grass Gandhak – sulphur Gon – turn at receiving water Haitien – village warden Hanafi fiqha – Hanafi school … fevers in parts of the Settled Areas Khusman – poor Kool – water channel, irrigation channel Kora – strap, whip; a … Mukhtabrin – village notables Nigran chowkidar – water steward in Gorikot Nizam – administration; also the …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… Approach to Conservation project and the Mekong Water Dialogues, facilitated by IUCN. No warranty as to the … advancing environmental law. www.iucn.org/law About Mekong Water Dialogues The Mekong Water Dialogues is coordinated and facilitated by IUCN and …
Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation
… of common property resources such as grazing, forests and water. They are thus both 'communal' and 'individual' in … in any statute or law or acknowledged in practice. Their territorial rights to areas for hunting, gathering, foraging … as: "a grouping of families and individuals, living in a territorial area that is at the level of a locality or …
Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… 3.5 Tenure of land, fisheries, forests, and access to water............................................... 37 3.6 … or lead to environmental degradation and water scarcity, thereby reversing development pathways … espect tenure of land, fisheries and forests, and access to water. 6. Conserve and sustainably manage natural …
Non-judicial grievance mechanisms in land-related disputes in Sierra Leone
… leveraging the country’s vast natural land and water‐based resources (Poverty Reform Strategy Paper … Sierra Leone started to notice that their drinking water, which is taken from a nearby stream, tasted … linked to chemicals being introduced into the water by nearby agricultural operations; the community …