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Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report
… after reportedly being put on a “hit list” of opponents to mining operations in Xolobeni. 4 These are not isolated … lands against the harms of large-scale projects such as mining and dams. 9. Owing to word limitations on documents … average, every week in the course of 2015. The sectors of mining and extractive industries (42 killings), agribusiness …
Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability
… aquifers of North Africa), thus using them is similar to mining non-renewable minerals. If groundwater systems were … many different kinds of hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Mining can lead to severe water pollution with elevated … affect groundwater resources – such as urban development, mining or agriculture – but take place far away from sites of …
Linking Landscapes - Exploring the relationships between World Heritage cultural landscapes and IUCN protected areas
… Landscape 2011 (iii)(v) IIb None France Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin 2012 (ii)(iv)(vi) IIa Scarpe-Escaut Regional … Reserves and Bird Sanctuaries V, Ia and IV Norway Røros Mining Town and the Circumference 2010 (iii)(iv)(v) IIa … I & III None United Kingdom Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape 2006 (ii)(ii)(iv) IIa East Devon Cornwall …
IUCN Knowledge Products. The basis for a partnership to support the functions and work programme of IBPES
… Areas (WDPA). IBAT is being used by the petrochemical, mining, aggregate and financial industry to sup- port the … development cycle. In 2010, the International Council on Mining and Metals produced a collection of case stud- ies two … 13 https://www.ibatforbusiness.org/about 14 ICMM 2010: Mining and Biodiversity A collection of case studies – 2010 …
Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning
… sector and other sectors, such as agriculture, forestry, mining, tourism, and urban and regional planning. One of the … ● Pressures in the marine environment can include fishing, mining, shipping, waste water discharge, coastal development, … example, by avoiding areas that have high agricultural or mining potential or that have been earmarked for expansion of …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… is named after the sacred hill of Nhulun at whose base the mining town is built. The IPA also includes Dham- baliya … However, the Royal Com- mission advised that the Nabalco mining company and the Commonwealth had wrongfully entered … fishermen and the activ- ities of the Rio Tinto-Alcan mining com- pany— impact directly on Dhimurru. Conservation …
Issues in water law reform
… in the Crown. __________ 1 Hanson v The Grassy Gully Gold Mining Co. (1900) 21 NSWR 271; Dougherty v Ah Lee (1902) WN … was piped from wells to remote locations, very often for mining purposes. The early Australian responses to notions of … the use of water, such as hydroelectric power generation, mining, manufacturing and the supply of drinking water. …
Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches
… and enforcement capacity may be weak. Activities such as mining and chemical production can directly and negatively … be felt on both stocks and discharge, which means that mining of the resource is occurring. If relatively minor … system. If unchecked, this also will eventually lead to mining of the resource, despite the increased recharge. Water …
Water as a human right?
… In a landmark decision concerning the Eppawela Phosphate Mining Project, the Sri Lankan Supreme Court said that the … citing Shala Zia, found in the Salt Miners Case150 that mining companies have violated the right of citizens by … v. Godawi Marble Industries, it was held that a marble mining operation contaminating the water supplies and the …
New Directions in Earth Rights, Environmental Rights and Human Rights: Six Facets of Constitutionally Embedded Environmental Rights Worldwide
… to prove damage to the mountain than to prove that mining polluted the water which caused the plaintiff‟s … In Eurogold, the Turkish government allowed a giant French mining conglomerate to use cyanide heap- leaching in its … included a right to water free from contamination from mining activities.”53 In Mohiuddin Farooque v. Bangladesh, …