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Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… the team undertook a desk study on laws governing natural resource use in Lao PDR as well as comprehensive field work … that work directly and indirectly in favour of natural resource conservation in the villages surveyed in and around … 2012-18 April 2013. It is supported financially by Lanxang Mineral Ltd., Sepon Gold Mining Project, and WCS. The MoU …
Introduction to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
… activities do not necessarily have to be related to resource exploitation, for example by oil rigs, but could … marine scientific research, others prefer to treat it as a resource activity. 2. Impact of human activities All of these … that they are a common property and renewable natural resource that moves around freely. Failure to regulate will …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… 62 5.2.3 Poorly-adapted Legal Regimes for Land Tenure and Resource Use 64 5.2.4 Jurisdictional and Institutional … for commercial or recreational purposes ranging from mineral extraction to tourism. Many such instruments predate … agriculture, livestock rearing, fishing, extraction of mineral resources, water resource use, tourism and scientific …
Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks
… environmental conservation, sustainable development and resource use, and engagement and benefit sharing with local … uses or encroachment, including agricultural expansion, mineral or oil exploitation, residential and tourism … Committee has adopted the clear position that oil, gas and mineral exploration or exploitation are incompatible with …
Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… to be made before funding and for the sustained use of the resource to be ensured. The needs of developed countries … and ecology; information on the use of the wildfowl resource for food, sport, amenity, scientific and other … shallow flowing inland fresh water, 7) inland freshwater mineral-marshes, and 8) peatland. At an IWRB meeting in 1966 …