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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… 9 1.1.1 Water basins … 23 2.1 Sources of international law related to water … 23 2.2 Theories about the use of water from shared basins … explains the powers and rights of the States that actually use the waters flowing from one country to another. Chapter …
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D2 - Dams, Ecosystems and Fisheries

… Kibel Scope: This class focuses on how international water law principles relate to the construction and … and obligations relating to the impoundment and release of water from on-stream dams; (2) effect of on-stream dams on … Nation Rights and Obligations 5.1. Equitable Use and Vital Human Needs 5.2. Equitable Use and Vital Human …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

National Regulation of Freshwater resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… Sustainable development Impact assessment Provision of water services 3. Lessons learned Manage freshwater for … all matters concerning freshwater in a single, integrated water law. Conserve water through rational urban development … the world has set in place a legal regime regulating the use of water resources in their territory. Many existing …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… this challenge. What is needed is greater commitment to use these tools to systematically evaluate the economic, … ecosystem services (e.g. flood protection, supply of water and raw materials, genetic resources, etc.), unique … • Life support systems and ecosystem services such as water yield, water purification, breakdown of wastes, flood …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… changes to coral reefs, as we have seen in 2016 when water temperature rises turning beautifully-coloured reefs a … this report, a second volume is in production, which will use the knowledge on ocean warming to revaluate the risks to … of frozen methane hydrate are stored in the sea floor at water depths of 200 – 2000 m. Increasing water temperature …
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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 prioritisation. It shows how it is possible to use available spatial data to conduct a useful national … results. 5. Aim for consistency across terrestrial, inland water, coastal and marine realms. 6. Use an adaptive … a map of ecosystem types across the terrestrial, inland water, coastal and marine realms. 15 3 Sourcing or generating …
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No Significant Harm and Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment

… at the basin level, including the 2002 Senegal River Water Charter, the 2008 Niger Basin Water Charter and the 2012 Lake Chad Basin Charter and case … for Europe (UNECE) Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes …
19 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… to fulfil individual’s human rights to life, health, water, food, work, culture, development, access to … to life, health, an adequate standard of living, food, water, housing, self-determination and means of subsistence, … provided for in the Covenant in the context of the full use of the State party’s maximum available resources”); …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

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

… towards a more strategic and integrated approach to land use planning and management that helps societies make … natural environment alive – from the provision of clean water and watershed services to the recycling of nutrients … may need to be modified to minimise the entrance of water or air. Social factors should be considered, too, in …
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Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation

… of any publication that uses this material as a source. No use of this publication can be made for resale or for any … decisions taken by different competent authorities. The Water Act of Kenya (2016), for example, stipulates in Article … At the same time, sectoral permitting bodies, such as the Water Resources Authority in the case of the Water Act, will …
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