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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… IUCN Environmental Law Programme Environmental Law Centre Godesberger Allee … on political agreements, international treaties and customary law as applicable to the case. The book also aims … a com- prehensive compilation of all relevant standards of customary international law applicable to water resources. In …
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UN Treaty Handbook

… Intention to create legal obligations under international law .............. 31 5.4 Types of registration, filing and … United Nations organs; (c) International law, including customary international law. In practice, the Treaty Section … or at a conference convened by such an organization, it is customary for the treaty to be deposited with the State that …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Large-scale marine protected areas - Guidelines for design and management

… of Victoria; Sara Calabrese, Stetson University College of Law; Nigel Crawhall, Indigenous Peoples of Africa … They can overlay multiple jurisdictions and community and customary boundaries and can impact access to important … of larger areas. For example, reinvigorated ra‘ui (customary marine managed areas) across the Cook Islands …
18 Jun 2026 Literature

Community Based Natural Resource Management in the State of Hawaii

… 7 of the Hawai'i Constitution protects Native Hawaiian customary and traditional rights, and supports land and … and applying local and traditional knowledge, and through customary institutions and regulations; 2. CALLS UPON the …
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Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change

… Water Governance IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 75 IUCN Environmental Law Programme … with many of its elements considered reflective of customary international law. Also, many of the rules have … is now imminent.43 Furthermore, the treaty still commands customary legal authority as the instrument coming closest to …
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Principles and Guidelines on Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas

… the interests of indigenous peoples, and take into account customary resource practices and traditional land tenure … governments and protected area managers should incorporate customary and indigenous tenure and resource use, and control …
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Intellectual property rights in plant varieties: International legal regimes and policy options for national governments

… governments Laurence R. Helfer for the Development Law Service FAO Legal Office All rights reserved. … the core obligations of TRIPs article 27.3(b). Exempting customary uses of plant varieties. Another way to recognize … of indigenous communities would be to privilege their customary uses of plant varieties, an ambiguous term that …
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Document - ABS information kit

… Article 8(j) of the CBD through national legislation, law reform and their own national biodiversity action plans, … and fair and equitable benefit-sharing, keeping in mind customary laws and procedures as well as customary use and exchange of genetic resources. By …
18 Jun 2026 Document

On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… under threat must take immediate steps to: ▶ Ensure that law enforcement bodies and the judiciary enforce relevant … in Botswana154 and the Maa- sai in Tanzania.155 Forms of customary land tenure and resource use still prevail across … html (accessed 21 April 2016) 156 Alden Wily, L. (2011), Customary Land Tenure in the Modern World. Rights to …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

The Aarhus Convention:An implementation guide. UN/ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

… for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), the European ECO Forum, the European … they represent an im- portant step in the development of customary international law and may later be relied on in the … such an exemption is pro- vided for in national law or customary practice, taking into account the public interest …
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