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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… and Institutions 62 5.2.3 Poorly-adapted Legal Regimes for Land Tenure and Resource Use 64 5.2.4 Jurisdictional and … 227 18.1 Scope of Permit Systems 227 18.1.1 Exemptions for Agricultural and Forestry Activities 227 18.1.2 Exemptions … Processes 237 19.1 Nonpoint Source Pollution 237 19.1.1 Agricultural Sources 237 19.1.2 Lead Poisoning Resulting from …
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Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation

… 17 3.3.1 Land Law (2003) … and inheritance patterns; civil law, including land ownership and access, social or community obligations … (Article 2) The law requires anyone who undertakes any agricultural activity to protect the social and natural … provides for additional measures including suspension of agricultural activities (Article 83). The Law on Agriculture …
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Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document

… to respond to the problem of desertification and land degradation. A tenet of the UNCCD is that … ability of both governments and stakeholders to control agricultural and other risks by improving techniques and … After the gradual shift from hunter/gatherer clans to agricultural societies, water became an essential …
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Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks

… And that is before we consider the expansion of agricultural land, exploratory drilling and extraction of oil and gas, or … GGN Global Geoparks Network GIAHS Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (FAO) GLOCHAMORE Global Change …
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Securing the future for global peatlands

… world; RECOGNISING that peatlands occupy 3% of the Earth’s land surface area yet store more carbon than all the world’s … through peat forest fires, conversion of peatlands for agricultural uses, mining for fuel, mining to sell in … of peatland to be applied by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in its Soils Charter, by the …
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Note 5: Evaluating the risk to Ramsar Sites from climate change induced sea level rise

… SLR, which is an upper bound for SLR in this century if land-based ice sheets respond faster than expected to … which could have additional consequences for wet- land and biodiversity loss (e.g., Wetzel et al. 2012). Time … population settlements, roads, and agricultural activi- ties within their boundaries. For the …
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