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Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks

… 64 7.3 Transparency and Access to Information … Understanding Property Rights Property is not a single right which is by necessity clearly attributed to only one … – in particular public participation, transparency and access to information, as well as ac- countability and the …
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Global Land Outlook

… large tracts of arable land, usually with water rights and access to transport infrastructure, as a hedge against future … Goals. Smart land use planning is about doing the right thing in the right place at the right scale: a … can lead to migration and insecurity while exacerbating access and income inequalities. Soil erosion, …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… to improve water management, including for providing access to water, must have national and international (as … providing justice by seeking to ensure individuals have access to the services that ecosystems naturally provide, and guaranteeing the right to water for human well-being. States should be aware, …
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.6 Choosing the right method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … be necessary to implement a successful regime. Rights over access to and use of water will need to be accom- modated or … environmental flows brings into focus the struggle over access to and ownership of water and water rights. In systems …
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Shared resources: Issues of governance

… equitable and reasonable manner, which includes both the right to use the watercourse and the duty to cooperate in the … 1998, Aarhus Convention on Information, Participation, and Access to Remedies in Environmental Matters. International … of resources, and habitat destruction; and (f) provides access, as far as possible, for concerned individuals, …
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Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges

… Cover photos: (From top to bottom, left to right): Viticultural landscape, France; Seed sower, Jordan; … as well as more conventional solutions such as improving access to food and making trade policy more supportive of … to deliver services can help stabilise food availability, access and use during periods of natural disaster, climate …
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Depend on nature: Ecosystem services supporting human livelihoods

… equity, in natural resource management • Improve women’s access to natural resources and participation in … by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water Target 11: By 2020, to have … not only be granted access and use rights but also the right to trade in the natural resource commodity that they …
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Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values

… global database, but whether the communities involved have access to effective conservation mechanisms. The fact that … support mechanisms, including secure land tenure, secure access to critical agricultural inputs including water and … of indigenous Quechua communities, and recognises their right to control the use of their knowledge based on their …
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Safeguarding the contribution of wild living resources and ecosystems to food security

… that food security depends on the availability, access to and utilization of food, as well as the stability … many societies women play the main role in the provision, access and utilization of food and in assuring nutritional … but is above all an ethical imperative determined by the right of everybody to be free from hunger and to live in …
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World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes

… need for dialogue about changing policies affecting size, access and barriers to customary practices. Recognizing the … such trends is therefore intimately tied to rights to access and control traditional resources, livelihoods and … the Ranger uranium mine on us, but the old people were right and today we are dealing with everything they were …
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