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Sustainable tourism in protected areas: Guidelines for planning and management

… by some other land use, such as agriculture, forestry, mining or urbanisation). Tables 3.3 and 3.4 set out two ways … areas where land is used for farming, timber harvesting or mining for example). Wildlife viewers and timber harvesters … anchoring (except in an emergency), coral and sand mining, rubbish dumping, removal of any living and non-living …
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World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 3: Wetlands sustain lives. How can we take care of them?

… the natural coastline buffer and reduces carbon storage. • Mining coral reefs can leave the shoreline exposed to …
18 Jun 2026 Document

World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 1: Wetlands: A natural safeguard against disasters

… extended just 50m inland. In nearby Peraliya, where coral mining had degraded the reefs, the damage extended 1.5 km …
18 Jun 2026 Document

Best practice for industrial-scale development projects

… diversity of protected areas from the negative impacts of mining and exploration (Amman, 2000); The World Conservation …
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Wetland Values and Functions Information Pack - Cultural Value

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PCB inventory guidance (PCB Elimination Network)

… as heat medium (heating and cooling) Hydraulic fluids Mining equipment; aluminum, copper, steel, and iron forming … Lighting ballasts Industrial Facilities (including mining, aluminum, copper, iron and steel, cement, chemicals, …
18 Jun 2026 Document

Large Marine Ecosystem Mechanisms

… LMEs are also centers of marine gas and oil production; mining for sand, gravel, diamonds and other extractive …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability

… of Agriculture, Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Mining, Secretary of Transport, Ministry of Economy, Ministry … aspects of oil shale include environmental damage from the mining and burning of oil shale as well as its low calorific … to expressways and railroad-based mass transportation; mining Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for …
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Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration

… certain sectors (including forestry, agriculture or mining) – Identify the political position of the different … 8.3 Soil fertility constrains rehabilitation choices Tin mining has been carried out in several areas of Malaysia and … Following removal of the original rainforest, dredge mining was used to extract the tin. This destroyed the …
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… toxic industrial pollutions, heavy metals from upstream mining operations etc, have accumulated in the reservoir, and …
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