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Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… include: procedural rights,• such as to participate in decision making, acquire information and access justice; and … now recognise rights to participation in environmental decision making, the importance of the environment for … legitimacy, and voice (genuine involvement in decision making); fairness; coherence; performance; …
A guide to the complementarities between the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity
… supplement the CBD COP’s further consideration of CBD COP Decision III/21. This decision requested the CBD Executive Secretary, in … on a regional, continental and global scale” (CBD COP, Decision III/21). The Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) …
Albania and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… including for preparation, review, public comment, decision-making authority, and appeal. Other 27 If … in the strategies, plans, programmes and all levels of decision-making. As the scope of the law on biodiversity … natural or artificial lagoon openings). This man- agement decision covers about 1% of the territorial waters. …
Addressing the problems of access : Protecting sources, while giving users certainty
… issues. It is thus not only a tool for national decision- makers but also for implementers. While it is not … we recognize that our primary audience includes national decision-makers, NGOs and others, as well as lawyers and … progress toward achieving the goals of the CBD. With this decision, The ABS Project underwent its first evolution. It …
Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
… Rome. direct link to policy as it informs management and decision-makers about the sustainable use of forest resources … and a general framework. It also incorporates a set of decision-support tools for planning and implementing a … and uses. The information obtained supports forest-related decision-making at international, national and sub-national …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… for Activities Falling Below Certain Thresholds 228 18.2 Decision-making Criteria to Implement No Net Loss Policies … may indeed be in the overriding public interest, existing decision-making processes often fail to take adequate account … to involve geographers, planners, lawyers, economists and decision-makers at all administrative levels as well as …
Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report
… are the major players or among the major players in decision making and implementation of decisions. Box 3: Some … of biological diversity; 5. Community must be the primary decision-making body or among the primary decision- makers; 6. There must be an equitable sharing of …
Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas
… to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a decision relating to a Programme of Work on Protected Areas … IUCN protected area management categories, in the CBD/COP7 decision on the Convention on Biological Diversity’s … the variable terminology used at the national level. The decision to do so was the result of a compromise between the …
Issues in water law reform
… anything done under the land reform Acts after the Court's decision, would be unconstitutional. By then, of course, the … for the most part, identical with those for the initial decision whether to grant a licence. In such a case, the … lies to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal against a decision not to approve, or to attach conditions to, a …