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Integrating mining and biodiversity conservation: Case studies from around the world

… vital wetlands in Australia 24 A privately protected wetland in Chile 26 Rehabilitation and 17 Restoration … Minerals is planning to mine titanium-rich sands in the coastal plains of south-eastern Madagascar. Based on clearly … threatened ecosystems, littoral forests along the sandy coastal plain have been accorded very high conservation …
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Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning

… 5. Aim for consistency across terrestrial, inland water, coastal and marine realms. 6. Use an adaptive approach: start … of ecosystem types across the terrestrial, inland water, coastal and marine realms. 15 3 Sourcing or generating a map … the ecological condition of the river is likely to be. ● Wetland condition can be assessed by using land cover data to …
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Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… surface, apart from the impact of rising sea levels on coastal areas caused by ocean warming and expansion and the … just for ecosystems but also for the significant number of coastal communities and valuable economies that depend on a … adam.langley@villanova.edu Summary • Tidal wetland responses to warming involve complex feedbacks …
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Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… breakdown of wastes, flood control, storm and coastal protection, soil formation and conservation, … would require large investments - if not present - such as coastal protection by dunes or mangroves; • Social values: … on a local flood management strategy in the UK. Within the wetland ecosystem, priority habitats and priority species …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… 12 1.1.4 Coastal-marine area … overall quality of water and associated terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, and a potential increase in disputes over … environmental flow is the system employed within a river, wetland or coastal zone for maintaining ecosystems and their …
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