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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field

… such as food, fuel, construction material, clean water and air, and protection from natural hazards. … Fund (WWF), Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial (MAVDT), Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and … to climate change adaptation, INAP proposes an “Adaptive Territorial Ecological Structure” (EETA, in Spanish) as a …
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Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation

… and widespread deterioration in the quality of air, water and soils – the basic resources on which all of life … co-ordinate local projects in a strategic manner. 8 The ‘territorial system of ecological stability’ in the Czech Republic The concept of ‘territorial systems of ecological stability’ (TSES) was …
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Wetland ecosystem services Factsheet 8 - Cultural values

… Cultural values From humanity’s earliest existence, water has been recognized as an absolute necessity … the emergence of agriculture, the availability of adequate water became an essential part of food production. Places … the Khmer Empire. As the bringer and sustainer of life, water has been venerated down the ages and plays an important …
21 May 2026 Document

Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper

… ecosystem processes, and meet human needs, including water production, soil conservation, and marine nutrient … scope of the marine spatial planning areas is the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone, and the … and its resources. It divides the ocean into zones – territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone …
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The Green Customs Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… waste from cathode-ray tubes; waste asbestos; waste oils/water, hydrocarbon/water mixtures, emulsions; and wastes of an explosive nature … one another and the environment, etc.) D6 Release into a water body except seas/oceans D7 Release into seas/oceans …
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Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas: Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas

… Cover Photography Hydrothermal vent: © ATOS/Ifremer Deep water coral: © André Freivold Courtesy of WWF International … of those parts of the world’s oceans that lie beyond the territorial sea and exclusive economic zones (EEZ) and above … marine biodiversity, efforts must span coastal zones, territorial waters, EEZs and the high seas. They cannot be …
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State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

… freshwater and some 40 per cent of its total renewable water resources.1 Although it is one of the world’s most water-abundant regions, the resource is distributed very … increasing interference in the hydrological cycle. 6. Water quantity and quality are a cause for particular concern …
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Handbook for the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its Protocols

… Flue gas desulphurization FGR Flue gas recirculation H2O Water HC Hydrocarbon HCB Hexachlorobenzene HCH … matter UV Ultraviolet VOC Volatile organic compound WB Water-borne coating WBB Wet bottom boiler WHSC World heavy … excluding from ships in international traffic outside territorial waters; 13. “Fuel” means any solid, liquid or …
21 May 2026 Document in Climate and Atmosphere

European models of good practice in protected areas

… Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management Published by: IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, and … Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management Copyright: © 2004 International Union for … approval of the land use plan for the whole island (Plan Territorial Insular) – an important juridi- cal instrument …
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International trade rules and the agriculture sector: selected implementation issues

… in that most developing countries have more than enough "water" between their bound and applied tariffs, and it is … the seed in pots, granaries or gunny bags. In terms of territorial scope therefore, their seed saving activities … cause serious injury." Thus, this provision delimits the territorial limits of the WTO member as the relevant import …
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