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IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2014: A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites

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IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2 - A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites

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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… forestry 0 71.3 4,520.9 98.2 0 169.5 0.04 Reservoir/dam 0 2.7 78.2 9.8 0 12.5 0.01 Residential 0 492.1 4,924.3 … size of river-sourced sand that reaches the barrier beach. Dam construction also reduces barrier beach replenishment of … surveys (courtesy of Wildlife Alliance). Sand mining and dam impacts were studied through water and soil analyses, …
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Feasibility study on establishing transboundary cooperation in the potential Tara-Drina National Park

… the largest hydropower structure on the Drina River. The dam in Perucac is 498 m long and 90 m high and Lake Perucac … formed by the construction of a 280 m long and 79.5 m high dam for the needs of the Visegrad hydropower plant. The lake … by alterations of the hydrological regime caused by dam construc- tion and energy-orientated water management. …
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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… river straightening for navigation purposes and dam construction for water supply, flood control or energy … water resources such as irrigation, pollution or dam building. The scope of such agreements has been extended … Tasmania to authorise the construction of a hydroelectric dam that would have flooded a large part of an area nominated …
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The green belt of Europe: From vision to reality

… preserved the Drava downstream of the last hydro-electric dam (Dubrava, built in 1989) and the mouth of the Mura. … Hungarian foresters protesting against the new Djurdjevac dam were strong enough to delay the project until the fall of … is not separated from the river by a flood protection dam. Thus it gets flooded on an annual or bi-annual basis. …
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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… Park, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia: WWF built a canal dam to increase the water level and soil humidity in peat … Restoration for Protected Areas The restoration of the pre-dam ecological integrity of the Delta of the Senegal River … Following disruption of flood regimes caused by dam construction, flooding has been reintroduced gradually to …
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Protected areas and other areas important for biodiversity in relation to environmentally damaging industrial activities and infrastructure development

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International environmental governance: An international regime for protected areas

… to relocate ancient temples because of the Aswan High Dam and rescue and restoration efforts of paintings, …
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The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… open-air sanctuary to pray is apparent. Some environmental dam- age is also a result of the traditional mar- kets that … range from replacing the signage with more sturdy and dam- age-resistant signage to installing a per- manent … can only ask oneself how much can be done to repair the dam- age done. Ethics aside, this remains a monumental …
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