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Principles of phytosanitary legislation
… Trade discussions are likely to be difficult and give rise to disputes. The present paper will only deal with … principles and fair rules and agreed at the multilateral level to control restrictive trading practices, drafted by a … des législations 26. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: impacts on agrofroncières en Afrique francophone, 1996 …
Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda
… (Annex 4). Such legally binding approaches at the global level are essential to addressing the most critical and … prevention of pollution from ships, as well as dumping at sea, and are often complemented by regional agreements and … services reached $866 billion in 2011, and is expected to rise to $1.9 trillion by 2020 (Bucher et al. 2014). …
Illegal Trade in Ivory and Rhino Horn: an Assessment Report to Improve Law Enforcement Under the Wildlife TRAPS Project
… decades. Sadly, interventions under CITES and national-level conservation actions have been insufficient to prevent … of transport, 2009 - 2013 (ETIS, 09 January 2014) Year Air Sea Land Total Number Weight Number Weight Number Weight … poaching remained at exceptionally low levels and gave rise to a period of steady increase in rhino numbers …
Desertification - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… soils. The other agents of soil degradation include rising sea- level due to either subsidence or climate warming, flooding … purposes, leaving negligible profit at the community level for land rehabilitation. Similarly, the development of …
Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation
… 124 4.2 Nature of authority 125 4.2.1 High policy level 125 4.2.2 Lead protected areas agency 127 4.2.3 … areas 138 5.1 System plans 138 5.2 Legal status of land or sea 140 5.3 Compatibility with surrounding landscape or … ecosystem services, ocean acidification, sea level rise and the loss of coral reefs. Scientific research is …
Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… arid regions of Jordan 4. Building dialogue at basin-level in Mesoamerican drylands between Honduras and El … the Yellow River, Yangtse, Ganges and Mekong, all rise in the drylands of Tibet and support a population in … great decline of water resources and sediment flux to the sea has been a common occurrence for the two great Chinese …
Towards sustainable fisheries law: a comparative analysis
… 125 1. Local management in the Diani-Chale area 125 2. Sea turtle protection in Kenya 128 IV. Proposed policy … its current implementation at the regional and national level. In this context, this book promises to be a great tool … ‘International Fisheries Law Since Rio: The Continued Rise of the Precautionary Principle’. In: Boyle, A. and …
Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation
… of achieving regional integration, and securing landscape-level con- servation at a scale not possible previously. A … Box 1.1 Definitions Protected Area An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of … have changed significantly in recent decades, with a rise in the number of nation-States, especially in former …
Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas
… and deci sion making. Agency managers at the national level are concerned with systems of protected areas and the … these Guide lines is as follows: n Chap ters 1 and 2 summa rise the back ground neces sary to under stand the evolving … defines a ‘pro tected area’ as: “an area of land and/or sea espe cially dedi cated to the protec tion and main te …
Guidelines for species conservation planning - version 1.0
… all species that need conservation support. This enhanced level of planning activity will feed directly into the SSC … amplifica- tions of existing trends (e.g. loss of Arctic sea ice, increased rates of sea level rise etc. (IPCC, 2014)). In light of rapid and pervasive …