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Water as a human right?

… IUCN Environmental Law Programme Water as a Human Right? The World Conservation UnionThe World Conservation … target of halving the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation by 2015. The WSSD recognised the … water and almost two and a half billion live without access to sanitation systems.2 An estimated 14 to 30 thousand …
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Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies

… of local populations; prohibited or restricted access to livelihood; break-up of communal lands; collapse of … upon available technologies, on institutions regulating access to resources as well as on decision-making systems … defines a cumulative gradation between rights: • Access right: right to access a resource for any use not involving …
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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… prohibited without prior written permission of the copy- right holder. Citation: Greiber, T. (Ed.) 2006. Judges and … (PIL). Nevertheless, insufficient rules on public access to and sharing of environmental information, as well … ical, economic and social realities, seeks to improve access to and secure possession of land by local communities …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… institutions 101 Institutional arrangements for tenure and access 103 Institutions at the landscape level 106 Devolution … to local poverty by denying poor people control over and access to the natural resources that underpin their … to support poverty reduction as a fundamental human right and development goal. The conservation approach …
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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas

… but also adjacent lowlands (Edmund Barrow). (Top right) The introduction of modern technologies has led to the … mountain people in developing countries have little or no access to educational opportunities that could improve their … the need to extract raw materials and to provide military access to frontier areas – which are often along mountain …
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Global Warming of 1.5°C - an IPPC special report on the impacts of global warming

… current rate of warming continues. The grey plume on the right of Panel a) shows the likely range of warming … for SDGs 1 (poverty), 2 (hunger), 6 (water), and 7 (energy access), if not carefully managed (high confidence) (Figure … a range of SDGs, particularly hunger, poverty and energy access. Investment needs for such complementary policies are …
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