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Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world
… only 20% specifically recognize customary law that governs land and natural resources. Some countries that do not … as instruments for achieving it. Particularly in land and water allocation, and the settling of disputes … to compensation or resettlement in the case of compulsory acquisition of land resulting in displacement of a person …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… 15 4.3.2.2 NWFP Amendment of laws Ordinance 2001 130 5.1.1 Land Tenure 135 5.1.1.1 NWFP Gomal Zam Project (Control and Prevention of Speculation in Land) Ordinance 2001 135 5.1.1.2 Land Reforms (North–West … to agriculture and irrigation. The basic law on land acquisition for public purposes is a federal one that dates …
Legislating for property rights in fisheries
… interest in an easement falls short of a true estate in land. 20 The range of protection specifically includes … concepts of quota types, further provision for Crown acquisition of quota, and greater attention paid to the … under the 1996 Act therefore operates similarly to a land title register, and a registration document relating to …
On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… 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 … & Nicholas, K. A. (2014). Architecture of the global land acquisition system: applying the tools of network science to …
Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
… livelihoods and poverty reduction, governance and broader land use issues has become critical for national planning. … faces increasingly diverse information needs regarding land use and forest resources. This information is also … and control, the preparation and implementation of data acquisition and, eventually, focused reporting to specific …
Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary
… government authorities alone to administer the law of the land is insufficient to secure the objectives, unless there … factors of the surroundings of human beings including land, soil, water, atmosphere, climate, sound, odours, tastes … Writ Applications in Environmental Cases 110 3.4.2 Land Acquisition 112 3.4.3 Writ Applications before Provincial …
Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… ntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and … these investments go far beyond those related to land acquisition and FDI (FAO, 2012c). It is clear that … ge alternative production and investment models to the full acquisition of land and to large‐scale concessions …
Biodiversity for (Bio)technology under the Convention on Biological Diversity: bioprospecting partnership in practice
… Environment Programme. At the same time, the access and acquisition of these technologies result especially complex … the prior informed consent, granted by the owner of the land where activity will be developed, by the authority of … while, biological resources are the property of the land owner, a situation that causes confusion and debates …
Issues in water law reform
… distributed surface water collecting or falling on private land; • groundwater percolating through land. Arid conditions, comparable to South Africa, and the … did not amount to a "taking" under applicable compulsory acquisition legislation. It is also likely that any relevant …
Compliance-Related Texts and Decisions of Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… then Principal Legal Adviser and Chief, Biodiversity and Land Law and Governance Unit at the UNEP-Division of … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities, National Cleaner Production Centres, … include general methods such as accuracy checks on data acquisition and calculations and the use of approved …