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White Paper - Regional Seas Governance
… nuclear accidents, invasive alien species from ballast water,2 among others. Overfishing on the high seas is in … CBD as “a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and … fisheries) has responsibility for, inter alia, policies, resource allocation, cooperative agreements and related …
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action
… Protected Area Guidelines are the world’s authoritative resource for protected area managers. Involving collaboration … provide essential services, including services related to water, and contribute to health, livelihoods and well- … the authority to declare certain areas of land, inland water Our patrimony, for us all to preserve © g bf , 2 00 8 © …
Transitioning to a pollution-free planet
… the waste, hazardous pollutants, and pollution of air, water and land that emanates from man-made activity and that … countries has been achieved largely through highly resource-intensive patterns of consumption and production, … i. ‘hard-hitting’ pollutants; ii. Areas of pollution (air, water, marine and coastal, land/soil) including the …
Principles and Guidelines on Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas
… of indigenous peoples, and take into account customary resource practices and traditional land tenure systems. While … as well as of the complex interplay of factors driving resource-use patterns. In line with current understanding of … and to local people in particular; · the territorial and resource rights of indigenous and other traditional peoples …
Improving governance of pastoral lands
… apart, or which they only use in certain years. Different resource patches that are geographically distant, such as … are not necessarily covered by “land” rights, including water, salt pans and trees, and how these rights interact … Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Goal 8. Promote sustained, …
Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… Protected Area Guidelines are the world’s authoritative resource for protected area managers. Involving collaboration … given to restoration of terrestrial, marine and inland water ecosystems to re-establish ecosystem functioning and … to its structure (e.g., species composition, soil and water properties) and functional properties (e.g., …
Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report
… priority? Box 15: Inter-agency coordination can overcome resource constraints. Box 16: Community conservation does not … the park because their own cattle have no fodder or water outside the forest thanks to a severe drought. … and new community systems of resource management, such as water, forests, and others paving a way for the conflict …
Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… Kenya: Natural Resource Management Project (P095050) … respect to toxic waste, indigenous peoples rights, food, water and climate change. Further, in March 2012, during its … and cultural and social rights such as rights to health, water, food, and culture. On occasion, human rights …
Ramsar Convention Manual, 6th Edition
… at low tide, as well as human-made wetlands such as waste-water treatment ponds and reservoirs. Copyright © Ramsar … world”. 1.2 What are wetlands? Wetlands are areas where water is the primary factor controling the environment and … international cooperation. In sum, wetlands constitute a resource of great economic, cultural, scientific and …