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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 Acting on recommendations in the Master Plan to …
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 …
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 …