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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… Mono Lake (California, USA) where a series of actions from fishing lobby groups and a Court decision forced the … 2.5.2 Downstream Response to Imposed Flow Transformation (DRIFT) The Downstream Response to Imposed Flow Transformation … Outcomes will depend on whether, and to what extent, the net economic returns generated by environmental flows exceed …
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Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… assessment refer to the precautionary principle and no net loss principle, and stress the importance of stakeholders … value (the latter is often referred to as the no net loss principle). 2. The sustainable use of its components … supply by damming of rivers; interruption of littoral drift by seaward structures Plant-animal dependency for …
31 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs

… by 2030. Threats include overfishing, use of destructive fishing methods, coral mining, pollution, sedi- mentation, … a negative impact, in terms of creating unwanted longshore drift, but they nevertheless show how reef-type barriers … (i.e. they take up carbon dioxide), reefs are ‘sources’ or net producers of carbon dioxide, albeit on a small scale in …
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Global Land Outlook

… and offer new opportunities for resource efficiency. 5. No net loss: providing incentives for the sustainable … to the land during the rainy season, with varying types of fishing permitted; farmers plant crops during the dry season; … is now generally prohibited. Sand from fluvio-glacial drift and fluvial channels, lakes, lagoons, and backwaters is …
31 May 2026 Literature

Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper

… such as poor management, pollution, illegal logging or fishing, introduction of invasive alien species, mineral … development. The objective is to ensure that there is no net loss of nature conservation values and ideally an … biodiversity values. This is not a commitment to no net loss of habitat area. It is quite possible for a …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… in generating electrical energy, agriculture, forestry, fishing, or any other type of general interest use. Fishing, outlining the necessary conditions for the regulation of specific fishing areas and • secondary channels. Pollution, …
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