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

… 24 3 The Emergence of Legal Responses at International Level 27 3.1 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (1971) 27 3.1.1 … natural change due to flooding, subsidence, drought, sea-level rise or infilling with sediment or organic material. Lake …
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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… cites many examples at both the national and international level that others may wish to consider. Namibia’s Water … from moderate water stress; by 2025, that figure will rise to nearly 50%.9 Canada, for example, enjoys an enviable … plume flowed through Hungary and Serbia and into the Black Sea, destroying 70-80% of flora and fauna along the …
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Sources of international water law

… recognising the Right to a Flag of States having no Sea-coast … waterways of international concern, must not give rise to the levying of any duties whatsoever, whether … on issues that are better addressed at the sub- regional level. They shall establish, where necessary, mechanisms for …
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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… regulate its flow. drawdown: the change in head or water level relative to background conditions. ecosystem: a system … amounts of food. Increasing wealth with its concomitant rise in the standard of living in certain regions puts … disease; lead to loss of land (as a result of rising sea levels); damage fish stocks and agricultural outputs; …
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Issues in water law reform

… -16- Entitlements are calculated at a specified level of security (say 98 percent) which can theoretically be … to deal with the problems to which these events had given rise. New regulations and ordinances had to be issued to deal … any case, the offshore zone, the beaches, the territorial sea, the natural resources of the economic zone, and the …
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Commodities at a Glance - Special issue on Shale Gas

… STATES ..................... 27 1. Canada: A commercial-level shale gas producer … climate change: 195 nations set path to keep temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius. … depletion of its natural gas reserves, mainly in the North Sea in 1980– 2014, by -72 per cent, led natural gas …
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