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Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

… of Natural Resources 15 5. Changes in the customary use and management of natural resources in the last 20 years … wild grass Gandhak – sulphur Gon – turn at receiving water Haitien – village warden Hanafi fiqha – Hanafi school … fevers in parts of the Settled Areas Khusman – poor Kool – water channel, irrigation channel Kora – strap, whip; a …
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Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change

… 46 4.4.2 Climate change impacts on fresh water resources and … 49 Case Study 5: Ancient and present use of rainwater harvesting in South Asia … RESOURCES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT; IN THE BACKGROUND, A WATER STRESS MAP BASED ON THE 2005 VERSION OF WATERGAP … entitlements of indigenous and traditional peoples to the use of certain resources and land, to knowledge, technology, …
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Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values

… that there is as yet no universal confidence in the use of the Category V approach and a preference remains for … landscape (when applicable), past and current land- and water-use practices and their links to cultural and spiritual … trade routes, historic settlements, intricate land and water-use systems, and traces of sophisticated social …
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Principles and Guidelines on Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas

… peoples are interested in the conservation and traditional use of their lands, territories, waters, coastal seas and … free and prior informed consent, · incorporate sustainable use of natural resources using methods that maintain the … as of the complex interplay of factors driving resource-use patterns. In line with current understanding of the …
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Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report

… the park because their own cattle have no fodder or water outside the forest thanks to a severe drought. … and new community systems of resource management, such as water, forests, and others paving a way for the conflict … to find large areas completely devoid of any kind of human use or presence. Thus continuation of colonial exclusionary …
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The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… are promoting environ- mental awareness, making rational use of natural resources and addressing the need to establish … dugongs, turtles, shellfish, crocodiles and sea and water birds. We can describe and name in detail coastal, … as well as non-monetary terms, is its high quality water. It is the main water source for the city of Flagstaff …
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Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers

… xvii + 112pp. Forests and Protected Areas: Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories. No. 12. … and communities. Sacred natural site. Areas of land or water having special spiritual significance to peoples and … Links between faiths and the conservation of land and water were found in every belief system examined by Dudley et …
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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… to fulfil individual’s human rights to life, health, water, food, work, culture, development, access to … to life, health, an adequate standard of living, food, water, housing, self-determination and means of subsistence, … provided for in the Covenant in the context of the full use of the State party’s maximum available resources”); …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas

… integ rity and diver sity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equi table and ecolog i cally … repre sen ta tives of pasto ral ists has so far focused on water points for pastoral use, with no agree ments to date. … city a commu nity? is the sum of all people inhab iting a water shed a commu nity?), it can be further spec i fied that …
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Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… standard of living, to adequate food, to safe drinking water and sanitation, to housing, to participation in … effective steps to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of the ecosystems and biological diversity on which the … rights, including their rights to life, health, food and water. Like directly discriminatory measures, such indirect …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance