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Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning
… to achieve representation and persistence. 4. Use the best available science to ensure robust, defensible and … a defensible and spatially explicit approach, based on the best available science, to assess the state of biodiversity … towards meeting biodiversity targets in the analysis. In practice, management effectiveness is difficult to measure …
Integrating mining and biodiversity conservation: Case studies from around the world
… to lay the foundation for the development of good practice guidance for the mining industry. Those case studies … • pulling together, disseminating and implementing best-practice experience; • instituting more rigour and … and • ensuring that finance agencies apply consistent best-practice criteria. Izabella Koziell is an Environment …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… alternatives for cooperation which are leading the way in practice. Using international law as a starting point, this … its vegetation and its surface and sub- terranean water is best achieved by ensuring the appropriate use of land. In … However, we believe that the term “shared basin” is the best phrase to use, from a legal point of view, due to it …
Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment
… includes many aspects of impact assessment, already common practice without necessarily being described as biodiversity. … from drivers of change can, at each level of diversity, best be assessed in terms of the effect on one of the … principle be endless; good participatory scoping, applying best available scientific and local knowledge, has to result …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… 16 guarantees to every individual the right to enjoy the best attainable state of physical and mental health. Article … to their human rights, including the rights to freely practice religion, culture, development, dispose of natural … 1992 Rio Declaration states that “Environmental issues are best handled with participation of all concerned citizens, at …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202, USA. Angus I. Best, National Oceanography Centre, University of … used for recreation by modern societies. It is also the best-studied part of the ocean with formal scientific … of the world. It is essential that this potential good practice is communicated to end-users to ensure every …
Introduction to the international legal framework on Environmental Impact Assessment
… design, EIA could help shape development in a manner that best suits the local environment and is most responsive to … have adopted some form of EIA legislation, policy or practice. EIA concepts are also supported at the …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 1) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… acquired recognition, among other means, through state practice, their incorporation in international legal … limits of national jurisdiction. It is a well- established practice that, within the limits stipulated by international … Rio Declaration Principle 10 “Environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned …
Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation
… through biodiversity offsets, is increasingly seen as good practice. 10. There are some developments towards integrating … among SEA practitioners on whether the Directive is the best method to achieve the goal of more environmentally- … for Impact Assessment, the leading global network on best practice in the use of impact assessment for informed …