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Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda

… looking at specific transboundary water basins, while land and soil pollution is indirectly addressed by the United … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA). However, global and regional … deliver on pollution avoidance, reduction, mitigation and rehabilitation. 2.5 Multiple stakeholders and multi-level …
20 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

GEO yearbook 2003

… found significant increases in the rate of melting of land and sea ice from the Arctic to Mount Everest to the … per cent of Earth’s total net primary production (NPP) on land (Imhoff and others 2004). NPP is the amount of plant … carried out. Such assessments are necessary not only for rehabilitation activities, but also for future planning to …
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Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)

… protection, in contrast, refers to the protection of human land use, including the sustainable development, … the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, and the Protocol against the Illicit … calls on States Parties to take active steps in the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded ecosystems, to …
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Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation

… 102 6.1 Easements and covenants attached to the land 102 6.2 Land trusts 103 Part III, Chapter 1: Generic elements of … may relate to protection, conservation, preservation or rehabilitation of a property that is already on the World …
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Invasive Alien Species - a threat to biodiversity

… of invasives. Invasive alien species also alter land-use and natural disturbance patterns (e.g. " res, insect … wash boats with hot, high pressure, tap water on the land-side before travelling to a new waterway. Let boat dry " …
20 Jun 2026 Literature

Ramsar Convention Manual, 6th Edition

… where the water table is at or near the surface of the land, or where the land is covered by shallow water. The Ramsar Convention takes … fish and shrimp ponds, farm ponds, irrigated agricultural land, salt pans, reservoirs, gravel pits, sewage farms and …
20 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Biodiversity Risks and Opportunities in the Apparel Sector

… water use and drainage for conversion to other land uses, such as agriculture and settlements. In coastal … combined land and ocean surface temperature data as calculated by a … impacts through waste management, GHG emissions, and land take for expanding areas for landfill. 6 Main …
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Managing Natural World Heritage

… an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands … tion, protection, conservation, presentation and rehabilitation of this heritage ...’. The World Heritage …
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Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands … tion, protection, conservation, presentation and rehabilitation of this heritage ...’. The World Heritage …
20 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Policy implementation and fisheries resource management: Lessons from Senegal

… management in diverse areas includ- ing freshwater and land resource management, the conservation and sustainable … in Senegal to protect small-scale fishing and favour the rehabilitation of piscatorial resources and damaged coastal …
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