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Integrating mining and biodiversity conservation: Case studies from around the world
… step towards a more strategic and integrated approach to land use planning and management that helps societies make … has taken many different forms, including setting aside land for national parks or sacred sites and imposing use … Case studies from around the world Ecological reclamation that maximises biodiversity gains 18 Restoring a …
Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation
… under the heading of “marine resource exploitation and reclamation” (high risk project).53 In India, the main change … Act of 2003 requires offsets for impacts that result in land-use change to forested areas. The recently enacted … 19), including undertaking projects that may affect their land, territory or resources including mining and other …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… caused by ocean warming and expansion and the melting of land-based glaciers, insufficient attention has been given to … on climate change has focused on specific themes such as land surface temperatures, melting ice caps in Greenland and … 3.5.7), changes in land use and armouring coastlines, reclamation, siltation from coastal development, and …