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E1 - Regulation of the Environment - Support Function of Groundwater Systems
… 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, … of aquifer pollution; (h) direct the owner or occupier of land to seal off any borehole situated on the land – (i) …
CBD: Measures for Conservation and Sustainable Use - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Development and Environment, of Physical Planning, Land and Forest Management and of Agriculture, Animal … a view to furthering the protection of these areas; The rehabilitation and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the … microorganisms; Adoption of measures for the recovery and rehabilitation of threatened species and for their …
A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law
… sources. These include: regulation of agricultural land use and practices regulation of the siting and operation of landfills and waste dumps regulation of urban land development, as regards the control of stormwater runoff … activity on water-dependent ecosystems, and providing for rehabilitation works of such ecosystems and habitats; in …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… situations. Even when harm is remediable, the costs of rehabilitation are often prohibitive. An obligation of … Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Preamble para. 5), and the 2001 Stockholm … http://informea.org/treaties/land-based …
Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment
… Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land-based Sources. Consideration should be given to … approach is an approach for integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation … of the proposed activity, as well as restoration or rehabilitation of sites), and compensation (often associated …
Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… - lakes, ponds, rivers and coastal fringes - and any land which is regularly or intermittently covered or … and it is governments who, in various ways, control land use within their borders. It is therefore surprising how … integrating conservation and management; recovery and rehabilitation; and legislation. A book containing a …
Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda
… looking at specific transboundary water basins, while land and soil pollution is indirectly addressed by the United … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA). However, global and regional … deliver on pollution avoidance, reduction, mitigation and rehabilitation. 2.5 Multiple stakeholders and multi-level …
Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual
… an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands … tion, protection, conservation, presentation and rehabilitation of this heritage ...’. The World Heritage …