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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
… designated areas where specified activities are permitted, restricted to some degree, or prohibited altogether. It … under customary laws. The activities prohibited or restricted under customary law in the surveyed villages are: … granting land concessions for any purpose; using any chemical substances; logging, burning or otherwise destroying …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… of the functions they perform in the hydrological and chemical cycles.17 In addition to these products and … species are often rare, threatened or found only in a very restricted geographical area (endemics). Freshwater lakes and … very high temperatures. However, these endemic species are restricted to small water-bodies in desert areas and are …
RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions
… ecosystem” are defined as “those physical, biological or chemical components, such as soil, water, plants, animals and … with predictions (Recs.3.3 and 4.10); • EIA is not restricted to individual projects but also addresses … plans, programmes and policies (Res.5.6); • EIA is not restricted to the site of the proposed development but also …
Ramsar Convention Manual, 6th Edition
… a) Functions The interactions of physical, biological and chemical components of a wetland, as part of the “natural … of wetland resources if a listed wetland is deleted or restricted; • to use Ramsar criteria for identifying wetlands … should be deleted from the Ramsar List or its boundaries restricted. Resolution VIII.20 offers guidance to Parties in …
Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… point of view (that is, their structure, physical and chemical properties, as well as the animal and plant life … the time, Classes 3) and 4) mostly exposed. Class 5) was restricted to intermittent streams and tidal channels. Five … frozen- evolution techniques should, on purist grounds, be restricted to wetlands that are artificial in origin. In the …