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GEO yearbook 2003

… of identification and labels for all bulk shipments of Genetically Modified Organisms and Living Modified Organisms. Hundreds of … are based on the possibility of gene transfer from one organism to another, possible undesirable effects of exotic …
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Global Land Outlook

… the world but, at the same time, is based on monocultures, genetically modified crops, and the intensive use of fertilizers and … the laboratory. One specific type of GMO is a transgenic organism which has been altered by the addition of genetic …
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International water governance: Conservation of freshwater ecosystems Vol. 1: International agreements compilation and analysis

… any other place where there is an appreciable risk of the organism entering the lake basin, unless the other Parties … the boundary waters of the Great Lakes Systems but may be modified and additional specific water quality objec- tives … to the specially protected area in question, or of genetically modified species, as well as the introduction or …
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Change : Adaptation of water resources management to climate change

… that can survive on very little water. These are not genetically modified organisms (GMOs) but traditional crops used by … social process. Just as issues such as health care and genetically modified organisms have generated much debate, …
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Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments

… sites, biological diversity and its components, including genetically modified organisms, and the interaction among these elements; … acids, formed by the metabolic processes of a living organism. Biological diversity means the variability among …
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Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… the area was impaired, 30% of which had been substantially modified from its original condition.68 Today the MDBA lists … infringe on domestic laws, require that domestic laws be modified, or upset existing political interactions. 5.5.4 … pre-existing Boards of Control into Watershed Boards, with modified membership according to local circumstances. The IWI …
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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… from direct runoff. bioaccumulate: the process by which an organism absorbs a toxic substance at a rate greater than … and functioning systems with highly regulated and modified human-engineered systems. These “developed” systems … for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships. 1973 (as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto) (available …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… Subsequently, and in certain cases, this theory was modified to consider water as res communis, which means, … for the basin, that should be periodically reviewed and modified, • as and when necessary. The aforementioned plan, … waters, coastal waters and artifi- cial and heavily modified bodies of surface water. Additionally, Annex II …
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… for releases for environmental flows and to be designed, modified and operated accordingly. Likewise, the Vision for … and 6. For a sample, the score for each observed taxon is modified based on its abundance, and an aggregate score … on the results of DRIFT, the design of the Mohale Dam was modified to include a multiple-level intake structure capable …
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Water-related conflict and security in Southern Africa: The SADC Protocol on shared watercourses

… es- tablished methods of cooperation in place that can be modified with relative ease to be compatible with the … Additions to the text of Articles 8–11 and 24–34 include modified text from analogous articles of the UNFCCC. 14 Annex … should be dropped from the simulation model, or somehow modified. Nonetheless, most recognized that it was a useful …
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