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Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services

… scheme should be identified. Property, access and use rights relating to land tenure and water resources should be … geology, soil type, vegetation cover, land use and other human activities. Along the way, water is lost – primarily … but also provide goods and services that support human welfare (see Figure 1.1). Examples of water-related …
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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… Peoples Convention (No 169) 25 4.4 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 25 iiCommunity Protocols for … biodiversity, natural resource management, climate change, human rights, and planning and development. Discussion is … For example, the Potato Park ICA includes articles from human rights law, the right to food, the Food and …
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Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual

… ORGANIZATIONS IN AFRICA Imprint © Copyright 2015, all rights reserved The use of the manual is FREE of cost. … salini- zation of this resource is often irreversible on human timescale. As a result, a broad consensus has developed … managing physical resources, it is also about reforming human systems to enable people, women as well as men, to …
01 Jun 2026 Literature

Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… drinking water supplies, and secure homes for vulnerable human communities including many indigenous peoples. They … 2.12: Using the categories to support the needs and rights of Traditional and Indigenous Peoples in protected … the definitions used in the 1978 system implied that human occupation or resource use were unwelcome or …
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A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows

… 97 4.1.2.7 Certificate systems that create valuable rights 99 4.2 Applying the lessons from other certificate and … GR genetic resource IDHGD International Declaration on Human Genetic Data INBio National Biodiversity Institute … from the evolution of defensive strategies and not from human institutions. One can illustrate this point by a …
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IUCN Information Papers on Marine Genetic Resources

… Greiber) Information Paper 6 – Intellectual Property Rights Issues 41 (Claudio Chiarolla) Information Paper 7 – … i.e. development of new variations within non-human species through genetic modification techniques (e.g. … i.e. creating new varieties, breeds, or strains of non-human species with particular characteristics through sexual …
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Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters

… organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation … of succeeding. For example, gender equality in tenure rights will allow women and men to have equal rights in … settings.7 This is problematic not only from a human rights perspective, but also because governance …
01 Jun 2026 Literature

Issues in water law reform

… delimitation of its frontiers M-54 ISBN 92-5-104252-7 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be … water and water-use has to do with the very future of the human race on this earth, its growth in terms of the … uses. This threatens severely four vital aspects of human survival: • Food production. • Human health. • …
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Community - based incentives for nature conservation

… supply and protection against climatic extremes all enable human consumption, production and settlement to take place. … very natural systems they depend on. Almost all forms of human production and consumption have the potential to … AND NEED: Direct incentives Indirect incentives Property rights Livelihood incentives Market measures Fiscal measures …
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MEA Negotiator’s Handbook

… in June 1972 for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE ), the Stockholm Conference. … future. To be successful, we must be guided by our shared human values. On this point, it gives me some satisfaction to … law, maritime law, intellectual property law and human rights are some examples.6 At 5 See for example, the CBD …
01 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance