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Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… of different shared river basins, mainly through ecosystem restoration and sustainable development. After a number of … 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 …
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 … It focuses exclusively on the identification and restoration of species that have reached critically low …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… 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 … conservation of the watercourse and, where necessary, the restoration of ecosystems. The Agreement concerning …
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 … and harm is suffered, access to justice can provide for restoration or remediation of the damaged environment. … 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 … and civil mechanisms that support the protection and restoration of the environment. It also includes mechanisms …
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 … environment, which includes housing, urban development, land use and transport”.24 “Environment and Health” The … compensate material and moral damages. If necessary such restoration can be ordered by a superior body, which …
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 … taken or affected without the consent of communities; • Restoration of damaged ecosystems and/or resources; • Payment …
Introduction to International Environmental Governance (IEG) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… 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. …
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
… 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 … compensate material and moral damages. If necessary, such restoration can be ordered by a superior body, which …