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E1 - Regulation of the Environment - Support Function of Groundwater Systems

… aquifer. It can also result in the subsidence of overlying land, which can destroy the storage and transmission … negatively affected. Further, contamination from various land-based human activities, such as, agricultural, … of aquifer pollution; (h) direct the owner or occupier of land to seal off any borehole situated on the land – (i) …
04 Aug 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Supporting, promoting and strengthening local agri-food systems

… to protection measures, and RECOGNIZING the role of the land-use matrix in the preservation of biodiversity and its … environmental services; WISHING to propose and promote new land-use visions and new processes of creating land- use projects in those periurban spaces for the purpose …
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Marine plastic debris and microplastics – Global lessons and research to inspire action and guide policy change

… of Action for the Protection of the Environment from Land-based Activities GPML Global Partnership on Marine … Litter prevention from land-based sources - GPA … 5.2 Land-based sectors generating macroplastic litter … 5.3 Land-based sectors generating microplastics … 5.4 Management of waste from land-based sources …
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State of Biodiversity in West Asia

… West Asia occupy only 1.34 per cent of West Asia’s total land area (Global Environment Outlook – GEO-4, 2007)5 but … dominated by limited water resources, a scarcity of arable land, fragile ecosystems and episodic droughts. The … agriculture systems and the cultivation of marginal land to meet population needs. This has resulted in an …
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Transboundary Conservation. A systematic and integrated approach

… and landscape protection, protection of the agricultural land and fisheries; (2) professional work in nature … from their neighbours by thousands of kilometres of land and maritime boundaries. Approximately one-third of all terrestrial high- biodiversity sites straddle national land borders. For this reason alone, there is a compelling …
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Global Mercury Assessment

… was evaluated separately, with total releases to water and land totalling more than 800 tonnes per year. Deforestation … the atmosphere) and releases (mercury going into water and land), that is, those associated with human activities. The … Committee (INC) for more information on releases to land and water. The aquatic environment is the main route of …
04 Aug 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Atmospheric brown clouds Regional Assesment report with focus on Asia

… large north-south asymmetries in the forcing and large land-sea contrasts. Since these are the driving forces for … for further studies with RCMs. SOLAR RADIATION 12.Annual land-average solar radiation over India and China decreased … Region Surface winds Surface temperature and gradient in land and sea surface temperatures Precipitation Reference and …
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Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues

… Some countries such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are buying land for food production in other countries (e.g., Su- dan, … areas, groundwater storage may become non-renewable. Major land use change can also affect large scale atmospheric … produced in other countries; but they are also now leasing land in Africa to grow their food, e.g., in Ethiopia …
04 Aug 2026 Document

The economic value of wild resources in Senegal : A preliminary evaluation of non-timber forest products, game and freshwater fisheries

… take account of the full costs and benefits of alternative land uses. This report presents a summary of findings of … the underlying resources may be ignored in official land-use planning and in large-scale investment projects. … paid to wild resources in decisions regarding the use of land and water, infrastructure development and employment …
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Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies

… of nature; • they were elitist, failing to consider the land rights and sophisticated resource management of … such as the right to access and cultivate a parcel of land. The attribution of certain individual possession rights … sought to control the “fund” factors of the economy (the land) but the “flows” factors (the income from the land)”; in …
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