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… of Natural World Heritage: Identifying and assessing ecosystem services and benefits provided by the world’s most … Unrest/ Military Exercises Solid Waste Household Sewage/ Urban Waste Water Erosion and Siltation/ Deposition Mining/ Quarrying Crops Housing/ Urban Areas Roads/ Railroads Livestock Farming / Grazing …

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Guideline 1.2 Ecosystem services and human well-being . . . . . . . . . . . … protected areas in the wider countryside, or in rural or urban landscapes, they may be jeopar- dised by a whole range … and the widespread custom of throwing coins into urban fountains, can be traced to practices occurring at …

… aspects such as water management, human health and other ecosystem ser- vices). At the beginning of the current … rivers and lakes. Often, the interface be- tween the urban environment and the natural sites is not managed … are the following: a) identify ‘interface areas’ between urban areas and wetlands; b) determine the use of these …

… areas also provide a wide range of other essential ecosystem services (Figgis et al. 2015, MA 2005). For … quality is often defined in terms of remoteness from urban settlements and modern infrastructure and the degree of … and other infrastructure, withdrawals for agriculture or urban use and pollution, it is becoming increasingly rare to …

… practices which have brought poverty, conflict and ecosystem deterioration. The solution The rich cultural … and damaged the ecological char- acter of the wetland ecosystem. Support from the Ramsar Small Grants Fund helped …