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Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… should hydrological boundaries (e.g., catchment basins, drainage basins, and watersheds) play in delineating … strategy: How should private and public water supply and drainage works be financed, constructed, and safely and … 6. The terms “watershed,” “catchment basin,” and “drainage basin” are used interchangeably. 7. The terms “water …
National Regulation of Freshwater resources - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… ecosystems, and their protection from degradation on a drainage basin basis, has been identified as the primary … resources is holistic when it is done on a catchment or drainage basin basis. This includes both land and water …
3rd UNCCD Scientific Conference: Book of abstracts
… effective under conditions of significant restructuring drainage system lands. The aim of such drainage systems was disqualification of excessive amounts of … in the world - 3,4%). In the course of the large - scale drainage of peatlands and active peat extraction, especially …
GEO yearbook 2003
… March 2000, shows the marshlands devastated by a policy of drainage and diversion. Inundated expanses appear as … of the marshes, including breaching of dikes and drainage canals, was spearheaded by direct actions of the … Sea (LME) 38a La Plata Basin (LME) 38b South Atlantic Drainage System (LME) 39a Brazil Current-Atlantic South (LME) …
Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development - Implementing Sustainable Development - Fifth Edition: Updated text (4th Revision)
… take into account natural systems, in particular aquifers, drainage basins, coastal and marine areas, protected areas, … a result of runoff, precipitation, atmospheric deposition, drainage, seepage or hydrologic modification or destruction … into account natural systems, in particular aqui- fers, drainage basins, coastal and marine areas, protected areas, …
Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability
… over a half of the agricultural land in Estonia is under drainage systems. The roots of a willow (which is suitable … plantations in Estonia) may cause damage to the drainage system. In cases where willows would be grown in areas with drainage systems, permission by the local land improvement …
Energy law and sustainable development
… and gas), drilling and well treatment fluids, process and drainage water, and sewage and domestic wastes. Excavation … infrastructure sites can alter existing watercourses and drainage patterns with marked effects on vegetation and … that thaws in the summer, forming a complex pattern of drainage and vegetation. Melting ground ice causes land …