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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 … 180 13 Integrating Wetland Conservation and Wise Use into Land-use Planning 183 Box 2. Wetlands and Regional Planning … Mechanisms to Promote Wetland Stewardship on Private Land 253 20.2.1 Management Agreements 253 20.2.2 Conservation …
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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 … assets and reputations.6 While some of the information on land ownership and access from the MoJ/UNDP Customary Law … Tansoum village, and probably other villages as well, has land inside the largest core area of the Ramsar site. This …
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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 … by others. One example is the Council of Europe’s European Land- scape Convention (2000), which reflects a principle … the season of inundation, the Nile flooded kmt, ‘the black land’, which included most of the flat plains along its …
02 Aug 2026 Document

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 … for wetland managers and decision-makers on the extent of land use and population in the vicinity of wetlands in …
02 Aug 2026 Document

Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks

… that is before we consider the expansion of agricultural land, exploratory drilling and extraction of oil and gas, or … internationally agreed targets are for 17% of terrestrial land and 10% of marine areas to be protected. However, while … and indigenous peoples, usually related to issues of land-use restrictions or sometimes even lack of respect for …
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Conservation of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway and its threatened waterbirds

… of conversion of intertidal wetlands to other forms of land use in the EAAF (faster than the rate of tropical forest … in relation to the benefits arising from the reclamation (land claim) or conversion of such habitats; b. includes case … further approval of intertidal mudflat reclamation (land claim) at priority sites for biodiversity, irrespective …
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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 …
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The importance of assessing the water needs of wetlands in order to preserve their ecological functions

… harmonizing water use strategies with those relating to land use, considering the importance of the water management …
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Major components of the Ramsar Convention- extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… to include wetland conservation within their national land-use planning, with the purpose of promoting the wise use …
02 Aug 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity