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Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects

… GREEN Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects GUIDE FOR WATER MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This guide … 2.2 Water quality regulation … into waterways and can cause overflow of combined sewers. Standard grey infrastructure solutions to these challenges, …
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Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories

… wider landscape 27 Forests managed to maintain soil and water resources 27 Forests managed for community purposes 28 … to assess each country’s national forest estate against a standard set of social, environmental and economic … indicators, it has become clear that perceptions of forest quality are extremely variable. Thus, as well as statistics …
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Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening

… product supply (agricultural products, wood energy and water), erosion, sand encroachment and floods. On the other … taken at the national level, such as those relating to air quality and drinking water standards, have impacts on sub-national level …
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Markets and Incentives in Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy. Using Economic and Financial Tools to Sustain Forest Livelihoods and Landscapes

… save anywhere from $7.50 to nearly $200 in costs for new water treatment and fi ltration facilities (25). Through … an extra $ 4-6 billion on infrastructure to maintain the quality of urban water supplies (26). Using markets and … be developed in accordance with both the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate Community and Biodiversity …
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Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring

… 5.2.6 Errors in forest inventories and quality assurance … DRC), Peter Skripchuk (National University for Water Management and Natural Resources Use, Ukraine), Ben … For centuries, forest managers regularly have carried out standard data collection in forests on a regular basis to …
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Assessing the international forest regime

… the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or the International Standard Organization (ISO), although both organizations are … At its last meeting in May 1998, the COP focused on inland water ecosystems. It also considered its longer-term … on Biological Diversity the maintenance of forest quality, as part of sustainable forest management, should be …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… (because people clearly see the benefit of having high-quality natural resources); • Local action may not lead to … wetlands continue to decline; the number of countries with water shortages continues to increase; and fisheries continue … as an operating principle, a measure to assess a minimum standard for conservation in areas where high levels of …
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Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.

… Ordinance 1987 (Missing) 5.1.6.5 NWFP Rural Area Drinking Water Supply Scheme Act 1985 380 5.1.6.6 NWFP Water Users … existing laws in the province are too scanty to meet the standard requirements of providing protection to environment … the ground of being unsafe for human consumption, or whose quality and suitability for human consumption has not been …
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Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)

… 1657-1659. ExEcutivE summary 3 not produced to a uniform standard and thus considerable price variation can occur. … and enforcement systems, and does not comment on the quality or effectiveness of existing domestic and … vulnerable areas, such as steep slopes, river banks or water catchments. It may also involve instances in which …
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Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles

… the face of ODA funding, the role of CDM in ensuring high quality projects, and the extent to which ODA might be needed … and timber) and services (recycling of nutrients, water retention, and soil protection) that it provides.13 … in a timely manner in the host country, no international standard for conducting socio-economic or environmental …
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