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RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions
… affect wetlands, in accordance with the principle of prevention; to set standards to minimise impairment of land, … Legislation commonly does not reflect the principle of prevention or incorporate precautionary approaches in order … capacity of a wetland unit; • enshrining the principles of prevention, precaution and “the polluter pays” into …
Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… 90 5.5.2. Principle of prevention … includes a no-harm principle in an article titled “Prevention and Cessation of Harmful Effects” but limits it to … See also UN Watercourses Convention, supra, at art. 27 (“Prevention and mitigation of harmful conditions”). 118 …