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… aquifer. It can also result in the subsidence of overlying land, which can destroy the storage and transmission … negatively affected. Further, contamination from various land-based human activities, such as, agricultural, … interference activities must avoid or minimise land degradation, including soil erosion, compaction, geomorphic …

… V/6 of 2000 Principle 1: The objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal … Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Paris Convention), the 1979 Convention on … services such as regulation of floods, drought, land degradation, and disease; supporting services such as soil …

… Agreements’, in Helle T. Anker and Ellen M. Basse (eds), Land Use and Nature Protection: Emerging Legal Aspects (DJOF … assisting devel- oping countries to reverse environmental degradation and implement a number of 36 See, for instance, … in Helle Tegner Anker and Ellen Margrethe Basse (eds), Land Use and Nature Protection: Emerging Legal Aspects (DJOF …

… conducted with due respect for the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the peoples or communities …

… continues to experience high levels of environmental degradation manifested in problems such as deforestation, … development and livelihood. In many ASEAN countries, land resources and terrestrial ecosystems are under … due to growing population and extension of agricultural land into forest and other ecologically sensitive areas. …

… DEADLY ENVIRONMENT: THE KILLING AND CRIMINALIZATION OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS WORLDWIDE ON DANGEROUS … environmental campaigner and activist on indigenous land rights. Last year she was awarded the Goldman … levels of land inequality, poverty and environmental degradation.68 The principal suspects in much of the …

… Colombia Global Witness documented the murder of 200 land and environmental defenders in 2016. This report is … lives, and to all those around the world who stand up for land rights and the protection of the environment. You are … of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest and Peat-land Degradation), (1 September 2014). Available at: …

… States. Global warming expands ocean waters and melts land-based ice, causing sea levels to rise. Long before … such interference occurring as a result of environmental degradation (see A/HRC/25/53, paras. 47-61). 40. Apart from …