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Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… 2.2 Water quality regulation … into waterways and can cause overflow of combined sewers. Standard grey infrastructure solutions to these challenges, … pollination for nearby agricultural fields, improve air quality, regulate local climate (including cooling) and …
Legal and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban foresty and greening
… products and foodstuffs. Activities towards reduction of air pollution and other environmental improvement can also … taken at the national level, such as those relating to air quality and drinking water standards, have impacts on …
Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… fires may include impairment of human health and safety, air and water pollution, loss of biodiversity in … amounts of vegetation for ensuring adequate flows of quality water and risk of fires burning vegetation. Critical … preventive equipment, periodic training, as well as a standard operating procedure and an organizational unit for …
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 … in a timely manner in the host country, no international standard for conducting socio-economic or environmental … tax and investment regulations, mitigation of air pollution.” 89 Dec. 17/CP.7 Annex, para. 43 90 All CDM EB …
Assessing the international forest regime
… for sustainable development for reducing damaging air pollution. The message of this Paragraph seems quite … the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or the International Standard Organization (ISO), although both organizations are … on Biological Diversity the maintenance of forest quality, as part of sustainable forest management, should be …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… Act 1997, the term "environment" is defined to mean air, water, land and layers of the atmosphere; living … 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 …
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 … secure environmental services (such as water and clean air) to all humans, rural and urban, wealthy or poor. It also … as an operating principle, a measure to assess a minimum standard for conservation in areas where high levels of …
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 … against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, and the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of …
The economic value of wild resources in Senegal : A preliminary evaluation of non-timber forest products, game and freshwater fisheries
… well as local retailers. Data was collected on the volume, quality and prices of wild products on display. These visits … consumers tend to focus more narrowly on the price and quality of wild products. Their perceptions of resource … several airlines no longer accept live cargo, e.g. Air France from 1997. A resumption of trade has been hampered …
Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… . . 68 Box 5–2 Impacts of variation in ‘stopover’ habitat quality for Rufous Hummingbirds along a migration corridor in … and widespread deterioration in the quality of air, water and soils – the basic resources on which all of … obvious process, especially when viewed from the air or from an aerial photograph (Fig. 1–1). Equally, habitat …