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World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… et al. 2016). Wilderness areas are also important as “control” areas, i.e. as benchmarks for natural ecological … disaster risk reduction through coastal protection and flood regulation. This is particularly true in the regions … the very handmark of the makers. Then down on the flood plains and up and under the escarpment there are the …
Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… the ability of both governments and stakeholders to control agricultural and other risks by improving techniques … These include a regulatory role in the water cycle, flood abatement, aquifer re- charge, processing of nutrients … especially where surrounded by shallow riparian zones, flood prone meadows and wet forests. These characteristics …
Managing Natural World Heritage
… be subject to the highest international standards of care control and management. Within the two definitions of … as by human settlement, construction of reservoirs which flood important parts of the property, industrial and … acceptable level of pollution and the management response control of agricultural chemicals or human waste as …
Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual
… be subject to the highest international standards of care control and management. Within the two definitions of … as by human settlement, construction of reservoirs which flood important parts of the property, industrial and … acceptable level of pollution and the management response control of agricultural chemicals or human waste as …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Guideline 5.5 Decision-making control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … will be considered sacred, but because it is under the control of faith communities these lands could be more … religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the …