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

… 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 … for delivering implementation. Drawing on national practice around the world, the book illustrates how different …
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Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document

… ability of both governments and stakeholders to control agricultural and other risks by improving techniques and restoring degraded lands. Each cultural practice is not an isolated solution for a single problem, … After the gradual shift from hunter/gatherer clans to agricultural societies, water became an essential …
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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

… UN and companies together to develop policy, laws and best practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global … (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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Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks

… should demonstrate the highest standards and quality of practice, as model conservation areas and an inspiration to … And that is before we consider the expansion of agricultural land, exploratory drilling and extraction of oil … GGN Global Geoparks Network GIAHS Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (FAO) GLOCHAMORE Global Change …
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Securing the future for global peatlands

… and for support to international efforts to share good practice and science relating to peatlands; ACKNOWLEDGING the … 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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