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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… animals. They also provide environmental services, such as soil protection and drinking water supplies, and secure homes … and policy, and international agreements The provision of quality standards, and As a tool for bioregional planning. … (V, VI) 3. Management objective: “Protective functions (soil, water, natural hazards)” (B) Not applicable WWF instead …
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World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes

… example, they often play a major role in regulating the quality and flow of freshwater (Figgis et al. 2015). They … biophysical disturbance. As a result, wilderness quality is often defined in terms of remoteness from urban … as it would result in extreme fires that would destroy the soil, plants and important insects like bees, as well as …
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UNEP Policy and Strategy for Gender Equality and the Environment 2014-2017, February 2015

… Policy and Strategy for Gender and the Environment QAS Quality Assurance Section, Office of Operations RBM … including with respect to the linkages between gender quality and the empowerment of women and the promotion of … more severe storms and flooding, species depletion, soil degradation, deforestation, and other negative …
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Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

… very turbid. This is due to rock flour and other small soil particles that mix with the water when it 7 C u s t o m … ploughing is better because it penetrates deeper into the soil, which is good for the crop and the soil. The use of … at killing insects but they destroy the taste and quality of the crop. Chemical fertilizers increase the crop …
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Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper

… p.16 • Availability of water and sanitation • Quality of water and sanitation • Accessibility of water and … ecosystems, particularly due to predicted changes in water quality and quantity. The impacts of climate change need to … such as climate changes, desertification and increased soil salinity, deforestation and loss of biodiversity…” 165 …
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International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review

… schemes intro- duced by many MEAs.44 Much depends on the quality and comparability of the data submitted by states, … Loads: Possibilities and Constraints’, 15 Water, Air and Soil Pollution (1995) 201-213; Hans-Dieter Nagel and … and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination’ (Target 3.9). This is …
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Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring

… 5.2.6 Errors in forest inventories and quality assurance … 5.4.2 Data quality control … Climate Change MQO Measurement tolerances and measurement quality objectives NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation … transects for down woody material, and possibly also soil cores (see Box 17). All sample plots used in forest …
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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… were selected based on a number of guiding criteria: • quality of primary and secondary material available; • … collective land title has been conferred and of rights to soil and forest resources in the San Juan Territory have … | Appendix use and sale of surplus. The use of soil and timber resources is a recognised statutory right. …
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Contracting for ABS: The legal and scientific implications of bioprospecting contracts

… years maintained a high standard of legal scholarship and quality outputs. The ABS Series, which includes this book, is … Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) for the collection of soil microorganisms. In late 2002, this relationship was … most important medicines, however, intensive studies of soil microorganisms repeatedly yield species which produce …
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Albania and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… fish- ing, one of which is the prohibition to change the quality of waters and the direction of their flow so as to … of human health-associated risks and improvement of the quality of life both today and for the next generations, … and marine water’s quality, risk assessment and soil pollution. B. NGOs Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) …
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