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The Aarhus Convention: An implementation guide. Securing the public's rights through access to information, public participation and Access to justice for a healthy environment
… Implementation Guide Securing the public’s rights through access to information, public participation and access to … environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport”.31 Health is explicitly referred to … the environment, such as air and atmosphere, water, soil, land, landscape and natural sites, biological diversity and …
The Aarhus Convention:An implementation guide. UN/ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
… CONVENTIONTHE AARHUS CONVENTION AN IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE access to information public participation access to justice … at the Second Ministerial Conference in Lucerne, Switzer- land, in April 1993. At that meeting, the Senior Advisers to … environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport”.24 “Environment and Health” The …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Access to information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … and terrestrial ecosystems as well as weather patterns. Land, air, freshwater and marine pollution further threatens … biocapacity – the amount of biologically productive land and sea area that is available to regenerate these …
Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners
… Informed Consent (FPIC) before enacting projects on their land. This is in defence of their ancestral territories and … exhausted, there has been no thought to the state of the land in the aftermath of any of these interventions. Desert … resources. From what we have seen, despite having access to these resources, this development does not reach …
Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor
… the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity 1.4 The Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in … 5.4 Protecting wildlife from harmful processes and land uses 5.5 Wildlife health 5.6 Human-wildlife conflicts 55 … (ownership and use rights and obligations, links with land and forest tenure), public participation in wildlife …
Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment
… healthy and sustainable environment. 1. See Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision- Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, art. 1; African … conducted with due respect for the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the peoples or communities …
Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual
… in specific productive sectors, as well as improving their access to basic services including water and sanitation, … In Vietnam, for example, the customary community head or land guardian controls rights to access and use of resources … that govern the use of forests, wildlife, water, pasture land, and other natural resources. Discuss participants’ …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… obligations used to protect the environment, including access to information, public participation, and access to … is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become … that the connection between the Endorois people and the land they once lived on were directly related to their human …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 4.3.1 Access to environmental information . . . . . . . . . . . . . … changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land-use.” Source: IPCC (2001). Comparatively, climate change … cycle together, connecting the earth’s atmosphere, land masses, and oceans. Furthermore, water provides …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… to improve water management, including for providing access to water, must have national and international (as … incorrect use of flora will have a negative influence on land resources, causing erosion. This whole process will … Argentina, page 95. 10 11 This specifically includes all land and smaller rivers that supply the main river with …