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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… and the explicit requirement to consider environmental degradation in instruments safeguarding marginalized groups … tied to environmental factors such as water, climate, soil quality, air quality, and biological diversity. … welfare and development. The preamble recognizes that “soil, water, flora and faunal resources constitute a capital …
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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… be the ultimate solution to stop future environ- mental degradation. At the same time, improving the implementation … such as rising of water-tables, salinity, waterlogging, soil erosion, ozone depletion and climatic changes. The … quarries in Doon Valley on the grounds that it would cause soil erosion, deforestation and river silting. The Supreme …
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Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP

… economy is a system in which the costs arising from the degradation of ecosystems are internalized and clean … the laws of nature. Environmental milieu (air, water, soil) and all species are interdependent. Harm to one aspect … as nonrenewable resources, such as mineral deposits, some soil nutrients, and fossil fuels, are capital assets. Yet, …
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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… REDD reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation SATIIM Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous … be free from contamination and fit for human consumption. Soil, water, and crops should be assessed to ensure quality … they may also involve land use transformation, water and soil erosion in the construction phase, and some levels of …
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The World Charter for Nature

… exploitation and habitat destruction by man, (b) The degradation of natural systems owing to excessive consumption … which they coexist. 5. Nature shall be secured against degradation caused by warfare or other hostile activities. … decomposition, and prevent erosion and all other forms of degradation; (c) Resources, including water, which are not …
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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… • Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+ schemes); • environmental development and … collective land title has been conferred and of rights to soil and forest resources in the San Juan Territory have … | Appendix use and sale of surplus. The use of soil and timber resources is a recognised statutory right. …
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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation

… proposed reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) mechanisms. No one blueprint for RBA … in The Netherlands, with studies in tropical forestry, soil science and rural development economics. Peter has … of the right to food leading to ecodestruction of soil, forest and marine resources. Starving the future …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… of the environment, including air and water resources, soil and earth, protected areas, and biological diversity; … to discuss the challenges presented by environmental degradation to the promotion and protection of human rights. … both intentionally and accidentally, to the air, water and soil, as well as in off-site transfers, such as wastewater …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… of the different contributions to global environmental degradation,States have common but differentiated … cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.” Principle 15 was one of the first global … pollution of the sea, inland waters, the atmosphere, soil or the protection of human life or living resources. …
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Water as a human right?

… court stated that “where environmental contamination and degradation pose a persistent threat to human life and … have the right to protection and preservation of the air, soil, water, sea-ice, flora and fauna, and the essential … mining operation contaminating the water supplies and the soil violated nearby residents’ constitutional right to …
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