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Global Land Outlook
… areas, often impoverishing cultural identity, abandoning traditional knowledge, and permanently altering landscapes. … areas, often impoverishing cultural identity, abandoning traditional knowledge, and permanently altering landscapes. … physical and mental health and well-being. Much of modern medicine is derived from or replicated synthetically from …
GEO yearbook 2003
… These rights include: intellectual property protection of traditional knowledge relevant to plant genetic resources for … Energy More than 70 per cent of Africans still rely on traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal, and plant … and, in some cases, dread (McMichael 2004, Institute of Medicine 1992 and 2001). This growing concern in part …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects … agencies (Laban et al, 2005). Agreements, including traditional customary rules, are sometimes formalised, for … water. They can bring together indigenous knowledge or traditional governance systems with formal laws and …
Water Management and Stewardship
… projects worldwide. Combining the latest science with the traditional knowledge of local communities, these projects … and countries that innovate and ‘take their climate change medicine now, rather than later’ can, Blackrock says, … control and complexity change considerably – and where traditional notions of business sustainability are most …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… sites of scenic beauty valued for recreation, or sites for traditional ceremonies) are also important, although they are … in the face of such uncertainty requires a shift from traditional paradigms that attempt to reduce uncertainties to … under mosquito nets, and in some areas, anti-parasitic medicine has almost entirely eliminated parasitic …
The Joensuu negotiation: A mulitlateral simulation exercise: The UN Framework Convention on Transboundary Aquifers
… global security have broadened to include a variety of non-traditional threats,7 and the concept of ‘environmental … cannot be combated in the same man- ner as the more traditional threats to security (that is, through military … xi ment of many countries’ security policies alongside the traditional military security.17 Water security refers, on …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… of drinking, food preparation, washing, manufacturing traditional artifacts, watering domestic gardens, hunting, … be Included in Planning Efforts? a) Analytical description Traditional water resources planning addresses a wide range … medical knowledge, as appropriate, including traditional medicine; e . R e s e a rch and control Ebola disease. 2 1 . …