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Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report

… 70 5.3 A Non-Government Initiative for a Binding Instrument for Soil – The Tutzing Proposal 71 6. Issues … term “sustainability” and the need to integrate social, economic, or ecological objec- tives to achieve … as a spatial base for technical, industrial and socio-economic structures and their development; and (d) soils as a …
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Assessing the international forest regime

… But it is clear that some decision about a new legal instrument needs to be taken. One of the clear findings of … with respect to all physical, biological and socio-economic aspects of the process of desertification and … as bilateral cooperation, (ii) country-specific social, economic, fiscal and ecological priorities, and (iii) …
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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… is closely linked to the right to life. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), the body of … to oversee compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), considers that … Protection: The Aarhus Convention is a regional instrument on the rights to access of information, …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper

… 127 3.4.3 Security of agreements 128 Key messages 130 3.5 Economic and market-based instruments aiding connectivity … planning, development control, voluntary conservation and economic instruments are explored. The paper is intended to … with rights to a fishery or fishing grounds. • Legal instrument is used broadly to cover legislation such as …
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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

… 2 7 7 6 The guidelines are the first comprehensive, global instrument on tenure and its administration to be prepared … environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development. www.fao.org/nr/tenure VOLUNTARY … cultural and religious practices; and a central factor in economic growth. It is important to note that responsible …
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Water as a human right?

… sufficient water, with the term ‘access’ also including economic accessibility, i.e. affordability, and with the term … standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development; b. solutions of … General Comment (which amounts to an interpretative instrument for Arts. 11 and 12) specifically recognises the …
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Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)

… international Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights … to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Protocol of San … comments linking the rights protected under the respective instrument with environmental issues. Special procedures …
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Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

… bio-cultural community protocol BMZ Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Germany) CBD Convention … of ABS for, amongst other topics, State sovereignty, economic development, indigenous and local communities, … address biological diversity as a whole in a global legal instrument. It is based on a broad ecosystem approach rather …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

A guide to designing legal and institutional frameworks on alien invasive species

… 1.3 Potential Economic and Social … Box 7. Economic Impacts … and amended using simpler procedures than the parent instrument. In most cases, they are subject to ratification, … States, is the only glo- bally applicable, legally binding instrument to ad- dress generally alien species introduction, …
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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Issue 2: Fit with socio-economic and governance context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … solution – that encompasses a complex system of social, economic and political processes and relationships – but it … are also relevant to the performance of a legal instrument. • Behavioural: The extent to which the behaviours …
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