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RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions

… ecosystem” are defined as “those physical, biological or chemical components, such as soil, water, plants, animals and … leading to serious environmental damage, including chemical pollution, salinization and exhaustion of aquifers; …
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Energy law and sustainable development

… quite misleading. Energy in its various forms (mechanical, chemical, electrical, heat, electromagnetic radiation) is … into the atmosphere. Sulphate aerosols, produced from chemical reactions in the atmosphere with the gaseous … leads to significant pollution, including more than 100 chemical pollutants released into the atmosphere.20 Burning …
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Biodiversity: My hotel in action - A guide to sustainable use of biological resources in the Caribbean

… of the water sources on a rotational basis. Regular chemical analyses are carried out and reports produced. In …
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Rule: Reforming water governance

… pollutants. Along the basin there are more than 3,000 chemical, oil, food, paper, textile and metal industries and …
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Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases

… interest in the use of biodiversity as a source of novel chemical compounds for the development of new … variations in climate and weather, and differences in chemical inputs and agricultural practices, produce patterns …
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The status of climate change litigation - A global review

… Hurricane Katrina lacked standing to sue fossil fuel and chemical companies for alleged civil conspiracy because their … plaintiff property owners alleged that certain power and chemical companies’ GHG emissions contributed to climate … VCAT 1988, local residents challenged the permitting of a chemical storage facility. All other cases within the …
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Integrating mining and biodiversity conservation: Case studies from around the world

… in recent times in an effort to protect the physical and chemical properties and the biological processes of this … Mining substrates vary considerably in their physical and chemical attributes, but they tend to inhibit natural … are the ameliorative approach (improving the physical or chemical nature of the site), and the adaptive approach …
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Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… Data-Products ). Argo is one of a number of physico-chemical and biological programmes that contribute to the … observed and projected impacts of climate change on the chemical, physical and biological processes in the oceans. … can incorporate inorganic carbon using energetic reduced chemical compounds in the absence Ocean Warming 59 3.1 …
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A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows

… these trends, a study found that at least 39% of new chemical and biological entities approved by the US Federal … certainly will have to exclude standard genetic or bio- chemical analysis of each sample, since the cost of such … that any system involving elaborate genetic (or bio- chemical) characterization or complex and costly pro- cedures …
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Value : Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure

… it considered reducing farmers’ applications of chemical fertilisers and manure, and increasing the capacity … agriculture might for instance look at the costs of agro-chemical runoff and soil erosion rates associated with …
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