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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become … environmental disasters and more long-term environmental degradation, which produce life-threatening diseases. … that the connection between the Endorois people and the land they once lived on were directly related to their human …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change

… 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 … (UNCCCD) (2012). “The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought: Methodologies and Analysis for …
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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… 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 … results in specific outcomes (such as conservation or degradation of nature, or increased or reduced social …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… in terms of management issues, implying that current degradation and pollution, as well as the pressure on natural … 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 …
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Wildlife law and the empowerment of the poor

… 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 … that distort markets which contribute to habitat degradation or otherwise generate perverse incentives that …
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Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… conducted with due respect for the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the peoples or communities …
25 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Introduction to International Environmental Governance (IEG) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… continues to experience high levels of environmental degradation manifested in problems such as deforestation, … development and livelihood. In many ASEAN countries, land resources and terrestrial ecosystems are under … due to growing population and extension of agricultural land into forest and other ecologically sensitive areas. …
01 Sep 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

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 … and urban disorder, are but a few examples. Man-made land degradation caused by extraction projects, impacts the whole …
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Natural Resource Governance. Trainers' Manual

… 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’ … for comprehensive planning to address natural resource degradation ƒ Acting on recommendations in the Master Plan to …
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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

… at the Second Ministerial Conference in Lucerne, Switzer- land, in April 1993. At that meeting, the Senior Advisers to … of redress when their environ- ment has suffered damage or degradation.” Finally, paragraph 24 states: “Each person has … environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport”.24 “Environment and Health” The …
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