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Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… should be done about a particular transboundary land or water issue and how people who care about such issues should … It is situated at an altitude of about 700 m and has no surface water outflow, i.e. all the water drains through … entity. Livanjsko Polje contains an impressive network of surface and subsurface water bodies, including rivers, …
Avoiding extinction in limestone karst areas
… which in most situations hold vast amounts of clean water within a groundwater aquifer held within the limestone … contain unique ecosystems, which are very susceptible to water quality and quantity changes, for example contamination … forests, and many other extractive uses; and that ensuring water resources are uncontaminated in these limestone areas …
Introduction to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
… Our seas and oceans cover about 70% of the earth’s surface and play important functions in maintaining and … is the Baltic Sea, which is the largest body of brackish water in the world and contains many unique habitats that … islands or installations for producing energy from the water, currents or winds. Another use of the marine …
Introductory Course to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
… Our seas and oceans cover about 70% of the earth’s surface and play important functions in maintaining and … is the Baltic Sea, which is the largest body of brackish water in the world and contains many unique habitats that … islands or installations for producing energy from the water, currents or winds. Another use of the marine …
Introduction to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Our seas and oceans cover about 70% of the earth’s surface and play important functions in maintaining and … is the Baltic Sea, which is the largest body of brackish water in the world and contains many unique habitats that … islands or installations for producing energy from the water, currents or winds. Another use of the marine …
Introduction to the Rotterdam Convention - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Our seas and oceans cover about 70% of the earth’s surface and play important functions in maintaining and … is the Baltic Sea, which is the largest body of brackish water in the world and contains many unique habitats that … islands or installations for producing energy from the water, currents or winds. Another use of the marine …
Introduction to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
… Our seas and oceans cover about 70% of the earth’s surface and play important functions in maintaining and … is the Baltic Sea, which is the largest body of brackish water in the world and contains many unique habitats that … islands or installations for producing energy from the water, currents or winds. Another use of the marine …
Introduction to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
… Our seas and oceans cover about 70% of the earth’s surface and play important functions in maintaining and … is the Baltic Sea, which is the largest body of brackish water in the world and contains many unique habitats that … islands or installations for producing energy from the water, currents or winds. Another use of the marine …
Transboundary River Basins: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)
… Recommendations 1. Environmental, human and agricultural water stresses often occur in the same transboundary river basins, resulting in competition for water between sectors and between countries. Relative risk … transboundary waters, stretching over 71% of the planet’s surface, in addition to the subsurface aquifers, comprise …
Securing the future for global peatlands
… RECOGNISING that peatlands occupy 3% of the Earth’s land surface area yet store more carbon than all the world’s … most valuable ecosystems on Earth (also providing clean water and playing a key role in flood management), and … for catastrophic loss of carbon, biodiversity and harm to water systems if action is not taken to halt the loss of …