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Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda
… Sulphur Protocol and subsequent protocols, has been the reduction in acidification, or “acid rain”, which was causing … Significant progress has been achieved in the areas of risk reduction, governance, capacity building and technical … in coastal communities in the developing world (Seas at Risk 2016). Freshwater Access to clean drinking water and …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… the most adequate administrative unit and outplaying the risk of harming due to non-coordinated adaptation efforts. … Integrated Water Resource Management Approaches to Support Disaster Risk Reduction,” in Renaud, F.G., Sudmeier-Rieux, K., and …
Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work
… Netherlands. • Michael Thompson, Senior Research Scholar, Risk Policy and Vulnerability Program, International … populace to voice public grievances. In July 1993, a major disaster struck the project when an intense cloudburst, … tariff can direct utilities to invest in leakage reduction, it has not happened because commensurate …
Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application
… circumstances. or minimum amount. While this spreads the risk of water stress among all basin states (in both wet and … which underlies uncertainty management, requires the reduction of water consumption and the overall water … Polack, E. 2010. Integrating climate change into regional disaster risk management at the Mekong River Commission. …
Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador
… the Provision of Ecosystem Services as a Means of Poverty Reduction, implemented by the IUCN Environmental Law … speaks for the use of market-based instruments, the risk of the possible exploitation of an ecosystem service, as described earlier, or the risk of a purely economic valuation of ecosystem services …
International ocean governance: Using international law and organisations to manage marine resources sustainably (revised)
… 11 Institutional Roles: Risk Assessment – IAEA, GESAMP, IFCS, IOMC, OECD … to achieve broad goals and targets (e.g., 30 percent reduction in nutrient input to water or volatile organ- ic … prevention, broadly defined). Institutional Roles: Risk Assessment The major international institutional …
Improving governance of pastoral lands
… SECTION 10 IMPROVING GOVERNANCE OF PASTORAL LANDS High-risk factors The presence of a number of high-risk factors … land tenure brings a major dividend in terms of conflict reduction. Stronger governance of tenure helps to clarify the … in the provision of environmental governance: a case of disaster management. In E. Boyd & C. Folke, eds. Adapting …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… in part because its aim is regional and includes the reduction of the pollution loads of the Black Sea from … knowledge. The Parties shall apply, where necessary, risk assessments and environmental impact assessments and … Kalimantan into rice cropland was a complete ecological disaster and the source of the haze that blanketed Singapore …