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Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… London, and the German Hanseatic towns situated in the flood plains of vast deltas are but a few examples. In … covered or saturated by water - marshes, bogs, swamps, flood plains and the like. For centuries mankind had viewed … governments, and it is governments who, in various ways, control land use within their borders. It is therefore …
Conservation and Sustainable Use under the International Treaty
… conservation and crop improvement, working on disease control and ways to prevent further loss of genetic resources … herbicides or even just different regimes for the physical control of weeds.60 The effective conservation of PGRFA … On-farm diversity is largely under the management control of farmers. The International Treaty aims at …
Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India
… Conservation and Management related policy frameworks that control, manage or aim to enhance various other ecosystem … and cultural services, like storm protection, erosion control, tourism and support functions such as climate … Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972; Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974; The Territorial Waters, …
Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… have sovereign rights to legislate, manage, exploit and control access to their natural resources, including PGRFA. l … sovereign states to legislate, manage, exploit and control access to the natural resources within their borders. … institu- tions holding plant genetic resources under their control were expected to adopt policies that would allow …
Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual
… be subject to the highest international standards of care control and management. Within the two definitions of … as by human settlement, construction of reservoirs which flood important parts of the property, industrial and … acceptable level of pollution and the management response control of agricultural chemicals or human waste as …
Food and Agriculture Organization (2017), IPPC Procedure Manual for Standard Setting
… proposed standard. (4) Potential benefits in terms of pest control or quarantine activities. 21 CPM-5 (2010), Paragraph … IPPC Secretary (ippc@fao.org) in order to maintain version control of the standards. If no comments are submitted, the … of order and, subject to these Rules, shall have complete control over the proceedings at any meetings. He/she may, in …