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Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE Review of Statutory and Customary Law … 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 …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… Law Programme. Copyright: ©2003 International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural R e s o u r c e s . … 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 …
Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world
… Thailand Copyright: © 2011 IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Reproduction of … as instruments for achieving it. Particularly in land and water allocation, and the settling of disputes related to … ‘Customary Laws for Access to and Management of Drinking Water in Tanzania’. Law, Environment and Development Journal …
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 … Forest Degradation in Developing Countries, and the role of conservation, … or lead to environmental degradation and water scarcity, thereby reversing development pathways …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… Bio-cultural Protocol for Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation The Raika Bio-cultural Protocol 74 58 42 12 08 … as embedded within a network of relationships with land, water, plants, and animals, expressed through culture and … because of the importance of the forest for fruits, honey, water and wildlife, its use for grazing and wood must be …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… for financing biodiversity that promotes protected areas conservation and community development through technical, … Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources and the Poverty Reduction and Environment … Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources and the Poverty Reduction and Environment …
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 Africa 27 pool resources such as forests, pastures and water sources. Tanner (2005 at 13) explains that: "Each … customary land management activity in Botswana. CBNRM is a conservation and development natural resources management …
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/ … states; Existing and potential uses of the watercourse; Conservation, protection, development and economy of use of …
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 … Area Authority, whose mandate of conservation of biodiversity relates to land. … Sierra Leone started to notice that their drinking water, which is taken from a nearby stream, tasted …
Sources of international law (Part I) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… and International Lakes with its 1999 Protocol on Water and Health and its 2003 (Kiev) Protocol on Civil … Fauna and Flora), fifteenth (i.e., 1979 Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals), twentieth …