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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… IUCN Environmental Law Centre Wetlands, Water and the Law Using law to advance … Generalised Protection of Wetland Habitat Types 163 12.1 Constitutional Protection of Wetlands 163 12.1.1 Brazilian … treaty, the level of precision of its obligations and the constitutional requirements or legal traditions of individual …
RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions
… the work of Lyle Glowka, then of the Environmental Law Centre (IUCN - International Union for Conservation of … and Clare Shine, Barrister and Consultant in Environmental Law, in preparing both the Guidelines for reviewing laws and … of law (3.1) Obligations under international law Relevant constitutional provisions Primary legislation (statutes) …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… CONSERVATION OF NATURE Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, Lao PDR Implications for … identify the hierarchy of norms in Lao PDR, including: constitutional provisions; international agreements; laws … for the analysis in this section, which focuses on the constitutional and statutory basis for conserving natural …
Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… in other international arrangements and in national law. Over the years following its adoption, there have been … at Morges and now at Gland. It also has an Environmental Law Centre in Bonn, Germany, and it has launched a World … will be given. In the United States, the Environmental Law Institute published “Our National Wetland Heritage” in …
Ramsar Convention Manual, 6th Edition
… a solemn treaty and are binding in international law in that sense. The whole edifice is based upon an … now embody international Ramsar obligations in national law and/or policy with direct effect in their own court … by Veit Koester (in the IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Papers series). July 1990 Fourth meeting of the …
Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks
… to motivate the rangers and improve enforcement of the law as well as environmental rules and regulations. The use … which in the case of Costa Rica are ratified by law, gives this site a special legal status which obliges the … but convergent approaches. Moreover, Article 50 of Law 42/2007 of December 13, on Natural Heritage and …