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Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… Biodiversity principles for impact assessment refer to the precautionary principle and no net loss principle, and stress the … enhancement should be identified and supported. The precautionary principle asks for a risk-averse and cautious …
21 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… sovereignty over international rivers is limited by the principle of freedom of navigation. However, if the … essential services. Sustainability is also related to the precautionary principle, a fundamental principle of … signed since 1990. The principle of precaution, or the precautionary principle, applied to shared basins implies …
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Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning

… and functioning. Using ecosystem types is a precautionary approach in situations where other biodiversity … representative samples of ecosystems and species (the principle of representation), as well as the ecological … processes that allow them to persist over time (the principle of persistence), as discussed in Section 3: Guiding …
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Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation

… or growth in GDP. As well as the economic pillar, the principle of sustainable development however also includes … Assessment Law of Mongolia, 2012, Article 7 (4) and (5). precautionary principle, as an important principle of … the alleged matter by the courts. In implementation of the precautionary approach this means that based on the first …
21 May 2026 Literature

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… to humans. This chapter follows the “chain of impacts” principle to emphasize cascading effects, going from changes … Will be increasingly difficult. Returning to a more precautionary approach would appear sensible and, as marine … currently at less than 5% of what would be regarded as a precautionary catch limit (Kawaguchi and Nicol, 2014). They …
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