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The Role of Indigenous and Local Communities
… Tinoc, Ifugao Philippines have been revitalizing customary land use and territorial management using culturally-defined … e.g. on linguistic diversity, traditional occupations, land tenure and land use change. Data generated includes cultural mapping of …
Introduction to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits
… seabed. The sovereignty of a state extends, beyond its land territory and its internal waters, to a belt of sea … coastal state comprises the submerged prolongation of the land territory of the coastal state - the seabed and subsoil … contribution to marine pollution load (by mass) are: land-based (82%), vessel-based (9%), dumping of waste at sea …
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 … of the important links and interaction between land and culture. It is not surprising that such management …
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 … unacceptable as would be international restrictions on the land-use policies of sovereign States; the development of …
Introduction to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
… for example by oil rigs, but could also take the form of land reclamation, artificial islands or installations for … related to resources or not and whether they take place on land or at sea, have an impact on the marine environment and … due to increased human activity both at sea and on land. The impact of untreated human waste alone is already a …
Introductory Course to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
… for example by oil rigs, but could also take the form of land reclamation, artificial islands or installations for … related to resources or not and whether they take place on land or at sea, have an impact on the marine environment and … due to increased human activity both at sea and on land. The impact of untreated human waste alone is already a …
Introduction to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
… for example by oil rigs, but could also take the form of land reclamation, artificial islands or installations for … related to resources or not and whether they take place on land or at sea, have an impact on the marine environment and … due to increased human activity both at sea and on land. The impact of untreated human waste alone is already a …
Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty
… to agriculture, the most important ones include changes in land use, replacement of traditional varieties by modern … intensification, increased population, poverty, land degradation and environmental change (including climate … large inputs of labour and time, and vast areas of land to contain adequate sam- ples of the genetic variability …
What is Agrodiversity
… used by culturally diverse peoples, and therefore land and water resources are used for production in different … (see Table 1). However, in some areas, pressure on the land is so great that wild food supplies have been exhausted. … agricultural areas in forests, savannah and other bush land areas. Wild-foods are incorporated into the normal …