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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment
… Economy Initiative which are central to the delivery of resource- efficient, 21st century economies within the goal … be enhanced through improved health and more sustainable resource exploitation and economic development. The benefits … legislative drafting and development processes and as a resource when they debate policy development and …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… has focused the minds of many on the finite nature of our resource base. However, something much greater than the … and ecological effects. Water is a particularly vital resource. Without water, ecosystems are destroyed. Economic … to other users at the price offered by the same body. The accounting and registration of transactions made under this …
Water Management and Stewardship
… 50 3.3 Accounting … driver of changed corporate behaviour, evolution in accounting practices would help to encourage water … will become obsolete’. In relation to water and natural resource management, that means companies need to show how … … can be maintained in the face of absolute limits on resource consumption’. For companies, that means identifying …
Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability
… as well as effective public administration of the resource, including for compli- ance and enforcement. An … depends on good science, increased finance and water resource management that brings people, sectors and countries … TO ECOSYSTEMS GENERATES TANGIbLE ECONOMIC VALUE.” 4.3.4 Accounting for time-frame, risks and uncertainties …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… to drafting a legal framework for governing the water resource, determining information relating to particular … a basis for the joint management of the shared water resource, the 2012 Protocol provides a basis for coordinated … their use; lay out water resource plan areas and the water accounting periods for each; provide strategies for managing …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… 1.4.2 Applying the ecosystem approach to Integrated Water Resource Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … stress on how institutions manage this life-sustaining resource. Climate change is likely to exacerbate these … projects and programmes. It also allows for a better accounting of the direct benefits of restoring ecosystem …
Global Land Outlook
… more rational land use allocations that lead to greater resource use efficiency and the reduction of waste; it is … (and their “virtual” components) has shifted many natural resource pressures from the developed to developing … suggest that management practices in a landscape context, accounting for interdependencies, are more significant …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Case study 1: Enhancing water resource and rangeland management in Kenya . . . . . . . . . … • How do we engage different stakeholders (who manages the resource, who needs it, who accesses it) • How do we build … water interventions in drylands to ensure adequate accounting of all costs and performance, for example …
The Joensuu negotiation: A mulitlateral simulation exercise: The UN Framework Convention on Transboundary Aquifers
… reflect the professional backgrounds of the lecturers, resource persons and participants (some of whom are already … sessions. Relevant MEA secretariats have also provided resource persons for the Courses. Between 2004 and 4 The … covering nearly half of the Earth’s land surface and accounting for an estimated 60 per cent of global freshwater …