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Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… Guidebook for Policy and Legislative Development on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Freshwater … of which is drawn from shallow aquifers. Those living in rural areas often rely entirely upon groundwater. 1 GUIDEBOOK … ( f ) Water for sustainable food production and rural development; ( g ) Impacts of climate change on water …
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The Tacaná Watersheds - Developing untapped potential: Strengthening resilience through cross-sectoral collaboration

… knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together. … to environmental challenges and achieve sustainable development. Working with many partners and supporters, IUCN … planning. Building of roads by municipalities to connect rural areas and dispersed populations has been at the source …
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Global Land Outlook

… to land use, management, and planning for sustainable development and human security. Finally, this Outlook could … will continue to be a significant factor threatening rural livelihoods, triggering forced migration, and … infrastructure and economic development. The scale of rural transformation in recent decades has been …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… Groundwater Management 1.2 Groundwater for Sustainable Development 1.3 Groundwater Management: Need for Change … where administrative capacities are low is to use rural electricity pricing as an incentive to reduce pumping. … lack of access to safe water, land degradation, loss of rural livelihoods, climate vulnerability and biodiversity …
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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… Organization M&I Municipal and Industrial MDGs Millennium Development Goals NGO Non-Governmental Organization NEPA … Preface xviii element of sustainable agriculture and rural development. WHO, on the other hand, was created for … and sanitation will likely increase sharply with urban and rural population growth. Indeed, social scientists have …
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Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work

… staples of societal needs and economic development. The purpose of the Dialogue was to identify … and engineering, conservation and ecosystems, urban and rural interactions, etc. The Synthesis Papers are designed to … Contending Forces at Work 5 Executive Summary For many rural farmers, fishers, and community groups, food, water and …
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Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual

… ■■ BMZ – Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ■■ GWP – Global Water Partnership ■■ IGRAC – … often the only source of water for all uses for dispersed rural communities in semi-arid regions ■■ The accelerated … and (mainly) high-quality water supply for urban and rural populations and for irrigation (Module 9: Groundwater …
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Aspects contemporains du droit de l'environnement en Afrique de l'ouest et centrale

… aux agriculteurs et ceux conférés aux éleveurs par le code rural 51 2. Diagnostic des contraintes d’ordre institutionnel … des droits fonciers exacerbe les conflits en milieu rural en entretenant une situation d’incertitude des droits, … UNEP’s New Way Forward, Environmental Law and Sustainable Development. 110 BAD, ECA, UN, UNDP, Sustainable Development
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Value : Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure

… persuasive arguments for more sustainable and equitable development decisions in water resources management. It shows … maintaining a basic standard of living in both urban and rural areas. The wet- lands in the Pallisa District of Uganda … Case 1: The value of water-based ecosystems for urban and rural livelihoods in Pallisa District, Uganda8 Pallisa …
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GEO yearbook 2003

… of UNEP’s input to the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD). Keeping this in mind, we chose to look at … of this growth will occur in less developed countries. The rural population will decline between 2003 and 2030, from 3.3 … billion to 3.2 billion, so that the share of growth due to rural populations (as well as to the populations of some …
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