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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… 7. Controlling groundwater exploitation to ensure their ecosystem support function … 108 9. Ecosystem or environmental services payments … freshwater needs. Costa Rica has mandatory payments for ecosystem services structured within its water legislation. … sustainable use of freshwater resources while maintaining ecosystem integrity. ‘The Greening of Water Law: Managing …
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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… REFERENCES 9. INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF WATER FOR HUMAN AND ECOSYSTEM NEEDS I. WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT II. IMPROVING … in head or water level relative to background conditions. ecosystem: a system of dynamic interdependent relationships … self-stabilizing mechanisms and an internal equilibrium. ecosystem water: the water that is made available naturally …
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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… Jurisdictional and Institutional Barriers to Integrated Ecosystem Management.... 67 5.2.4.1 Jurisdictional Barriers … adverse effect on the conservation status of a species or ecosystem. Some processes occur naturally, but those of … collectively they exceed an appropriate threshold for the ecosystem concerned: examples include certain types of …
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Issues in water law reform

… waterway or irrigation channel. In fact, environmental and ecosystem requirements have been mostly met by specifying … or (b) to prevent damage, or further damage, to an ecosystem that depends on that water or on the water from a … objective but maintenance of the integrity of our global ecosystem is. The market is important but not the source of …
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Sources of international water law

… watercourse which may have effects detrimental to the ecosystem of the watercourse resulting in significant harm to … are imposed when the quality of the receiving water or the ecosystem so requires; (e) at least biological treatment or …
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Commodities at a Glance - Special issue on Shale Gas

… of the Karoo Basin, as is the fragility of the local ecosystem, which “includes relatively high levels of …
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