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Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case

… offsets 32 4.3.1 Environmental Impact Assessments 32 4.3.2 Planning law 33 4.3.3 Concession agreements 33 4.3.4 Policy … conservation priorities are integrated into business planning. Benefits to communities: Local communities can use … company’s other impacts on biodiversity, for instance in urban or other sites of lower biodiversity value. Communicate …
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Patents and clean energy technologies in Africa

… energy services. The situation is obviously better in urban areas, but even here significant parts of the …
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The rise of environmental crime - A growing threat to natural resources, peace, development and security

… medicinal purposes in Asian markets.192 Three quarters of urban Chinese who had consumed illegal tiger products …
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Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 – 2012

… In the last quadrennium, the SSC Species Conservation Planning Task Force produced a very important set of guidelines, Strategic Planning for Species Conservation, outlining a new SSC … are included in chapters about forests, agriculture and urban areas. Fund raising • Biodiversity and Livelihood …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… who live in a particular basin area, such as their urban settlements, their crops, their economy, their personal … lower basins. This will be then used for management and planning within the entire basin. 1.1.5 Hydrological cycle … and strategic volume of water, which is mainly used for urban supply and recreational pur- poses. The project was …
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Review of the Legal and Policy Framework for Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa

… traditional law and general law, land tenure, land use and planning may place significant constraints on the effective … tenure regimes, exclusionary legal systems and poor land planning systems amongst others. Tenure relations throughout … conflicting demands, from agriculture, local communities, urban and industrial development, environment and tourism, …
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Review and Analysis of specific Transboundary Natural Resources Management (TBNRM) Initiatives in the Southern African Region

… traditional law and general law, land tenure, land use and planning may place significant constraints on the effective … tenure regimes, exclusionary legal systems and poor land planning systems amongst others. Tenure relations throughout … conflicting demands, from agriculture, local communities, urban and industrial development, environment and tourism, …
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The long and winding road: negotiating a treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction

… Understanding MPA Marine Protected Area MSP marine spatial planning MSR Marine scientific research NAFO North Atlantic … area based management tools such as marine spatial planning” (Wright & Rochette, 2017).86 … and Energy, Biodiversity, Oceans and Coastal Zones, Urban Fabric, Agriculture, and New Prosperity. IDDRI …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… and instruments 112 National poverty reduction planning processes 113 Multiple levels and multiple points of … (such as water and clean air) to all humans, rural and urban, wealthy or poor. It also provides important insurance … Province of Cameroon shows how sectoral development planning can dramatically affect livelihoods and undermine …
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Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… has taken effective steps to reduce water usage in an urban-friendly manner. For example, the district encourages … purpose is to “promote and co-ordinate effective planning and management for the equitable, efficient and … management of 33 major river basins.”95 During the project planning process, the project’s legal and institutional …
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