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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… and of dangerous activities, including the operation of chemical factories and waste-collection sites. The … The WHO defines the environment as “all the physical, chemical and biological factors external to a person, and all …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… technique did. Young people also approve of the use of chemical fertilizer because they say it gives a better yield. … but they destroy the taste and quality of the crop. Chemical fertilizers increase the crop yield but destroy and … elements such as rock blasting, markets, firearms, and chemical fertilizers, among other things, may interfere with …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… damaged by light or temperature changes, pollution or chemical changes in the water. The exceptionally strong El … This combined with the disturbance to forest systems from industrial forestry etc will make these areas particularly … their way of life to development programmes, especially industrial logging but in addition to this now have to deal …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… miles of coastline around Vitória and Buzios Islands from industrial trawlers. Despite being officially categorized as … that Angkor (Yasodharapura) had been the largest pre-industrial city ever, over twenty times bigger than its … (by means of a complex and time-consuming process) a chemical used to fix and brighten the colour of vegetable …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… nature and culture— there are no other major economic or industrial activities with an adverse environmen- tal, … of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. On the monastery land, chemical fertiliz- ers have been replaced with compost … natural capital as possible into the engines of the industrial economy. These assump- tions, though, are …