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Capacity Development for Protected and Other Conserved Areas in the Pacific Islands Region: Strategy and Action Framework 2015-2020
… EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), and another dealing with access and benefit sharing (ABS) implemented by the … institutions and personnel; land and sea stewards; and a range of important partners, … access, knowledge, and culture. Capacity Development … enabling framework to access and share information on an ongoing basis. Capacity …
Biodiversity for Business: A guide to using knowledge products delivered through IUCN
… 15 1.6. Tools to support access to and use of the knowledge products … Conversely, companies are major players in the wider land- scape and as such are responsible for their impact on … have legal designation for any particular kind of land use (e.g. they are not necessarily Protected Areas). D …
Croatia and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… City of Zagreb. Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometers of land and 31.067 km² of interior sea waters and territorial … area of the country (740,220.37 ha) or 12.06% of the land and 1.97% of territorial sea. Croatian part of EU … • Precautionary Principle • Public participation and access to information. Does the protected areas’ legal …
Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types
… spiritual value. Covering almost 12 percent of the world’s land surface, the global protected area system represents a … be a general term that can embrace a very wide range of land and water management types that incidentally have some … areas being protected, in terms of lost rights, land or access to resources. There is increasing and very justifiable …
Landscape conservation law. Present trends and perspectives in international and comparative law.
… nature conservation, pollution control and abatement, and land use. Certainly until recently it has not been the … by humankind: the demands which its people place upon the land for food, timber, minerals, water supplies, building … and to make such areas available for appropriate public access. Even when outright ownership is not practical, public …
Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… The most common causes of forest fires are human-induced: land clearing (especially for shifting cultivation, other … Fire management is the discipline of using fire to achieve land management and traditional use objectives, together with … the right to enjoy a healthy forest environment and access forest information (art. 68). It requires communities …
Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment
… Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution from Land-based Sources. Consideration should be given to … due consideration to those who have traditionally had access to, and/or knowledge of those resources. • The likely … approach is an approach for integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation …
Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
… spiritual value. Covering almost 12 percent of the world’s land surface, the global protected area system represents a … be a general term that can embrace a very wide range of land and water management types that incidentally have some … areas being protected, in terms of lost rights, land or access to resources. There is increasing and very justifiable …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… 3.4.2. Procedural human rights: Rights to access to information, free speech, free assembly, … Development Bank AFOLU Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use AMCOW African Ministers’ Council on Water CBD … Management Lao PDR Lao People’s Democratic Republic LULUCF Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry MDBA Murray-Darling …
Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 4.3.1 Access to environmental information . . . . . . . . . . . . . … changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land-use.” Source: IPCC (2001). Comparatively, climate change … cycle together, connecting the earth’s atmosphere, land masses, and oceans. Furthermore, water provides …