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Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2015: Investing in environmental sustainability to achieve social and economic development

… Mediterranean coastal zones: A vital interface between land and sea It is estimated that approximately one third of … forests, combat desertification and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss 6. Ensure … of non-renewable resources and related post-extraction restoration. The target under this strategic direction is to …
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On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… DEADLY ENVIRONMENT: THE KILLING AND CRIMINALIZATION OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS WORLDWIDE ON DANGEROUS … environmental campaigner and activist on indigenous land rights. Last year she was awarded the Goldman … as the world’s most dangerous country per capita to be a land and environmental defender. This report is dedicated to …
25 May 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 … (MoU) and implement an Action Plan on the Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use of the Saiga Antelope. The …
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Securing the future for global peatlands

… world; RECOGNISING that peatlands occupy 3% of the Earth’s land surface area yet store more carbon than all the world’s … a wide range of ecosystem services, and RECALLING that the restoration and sustainable use of peatlands has long been …
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Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector: Regulatory tools.

… from industrial areas to degraded and agricultural land to pristine natural environments. The system aims to … whether the overall biodiversity suitability of the global land- holdings over which a company has management control is … to pursue impact avoidance and reduc- tion, as well as restoration, prior to the offsetting of residual impacts. The …
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European charter on hunting and biodiversity

… to the long-term decline of biodiversity or hinder its restoration. Such use maintains the potential of biodiversity … (decision V/6)15. They advocate integrated management of land, water and living resources for promoting the … and society 3.1.1 Rationale: Human decisions that change land-use and affect species are influenced by regulatory and …
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Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases

… Power Company Pty Ltd 218 xv and Singleton Council, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, 86 Lgera 143 … General of Private National Parks and Wildlife and Others, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, 81 Lgera 397 … from carrying on further operations and an order for restoration of his property to its previous condition. The …
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Managing Natural World Heritage

… International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) UNESCO World … 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 …
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Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual

… International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) UNESCO World … 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 …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

European models of good practice in protected areas

… Zone C obviously equates with Category V (Protected Land- scape) though the latter are usually much larger. And … of Opi. Zone C is a small part of the park, containing land farmed in traditional ways. Abruzzo has some of the … stone walls and stone- edged waterways. Fingers of grazed land stretch into the wooded hillsides. The relationship …
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