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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… under great threat. These land use changes, including mining, and resource extraction pressures compromise the … vulnerabilities to climate change. The main industry is mining of nickel, copper and other precious metals, the … the largest deposits of these metals in North America. The mining industry was established in the late 1800s and has …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… the Australian Greenhouse Challenge and the Australian mining industry’s Code for Environmental Management) and … a process for publicly disclosing the performance of mining and manufacturing companies with respect to … laws in Ghana. The pilot phase focuses on surface mining and activities resulting in discharge of effluent and …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… management plan. No permanent residence, agriculture or mining are allowed, but tourism related and … is rife (World Bank Report 2006). Extraction of timber, mining, exploitation of oil and gas, expansion of … to the land rights movement and partly arranged to give mining companies access to mineral deposits. Rights-based …