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Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… of pertinent details of plans to initiate, or make a change in, the conservation of utilization of the resource … human health and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, landscape and historical monuments or other physical … human health and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, landscape and historical monuments or other physical …
Persistent Organic Pollutants: Contaminated Site Investigation and Management Toolkit
… This is especially important if the transfer leads to a change in land use, for example from industrial to … site physiography including regional and site geograpyh, climate, topography, geology, surface water and groundwater, … vegetation • surface water • groundwater • water supply • climate Site usage and activities, adjacent areas usage and …
Connectivity Conservation: International Experience in Planning, Establishment and Management of Biodiversity Corridors
… and people are able to adapt to land transformation and climate change. We call this proactive, holistic, and long-term … of extinction due to catastrophic events and inbreeding. Climate change is accelerating habitat fragmentation and the …
UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015
… agendas that address issues like health, development and climate change. They feature even less prominently in financial … respectively. All the while, chemical waste exacerbates climate change. At the Rio+20 Summit in 2012, governments …
A guide to designing legal and institutional frameworks on alien invasive species
… problems are much more complex, with multiple drivers of change, many of which are important to the overall economy of … are changing atmospheric composition and subsequently our climate. Then there are those environmental drivers of … competition that fol- lows habitat degradation. Global climate change is also a significant factor assisting the …
A Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners
… by educational institutions. ● Promoting organisational change. Using competences can act as a ‘push factor’, … PPP 4.9 Coordinate protected area system-wide responses to climate change and associated impacts. ● Developing and … for responses at the site and system level to impacts of climate change. ● Developing and directing plans for …
Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues
… 76 vi Chapter 5 The dynamics of change … Ozone Layer, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. 28 This Convention, … Preamble of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; The Trail Smelter Case (American Journal of …