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UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015

… of whom live in slums and areas close to contaminated land, landfills and hazardous waste dumping sites—are most … she says she had always had “an enormous love of water and land taught to me by my father”, an engineer. Her mother, a … reduce marine pollution of all kinds, particularly from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient …
25 May 2026 Document

Maritime Traffic Effects on Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea. Volume 2 - Legal Mechanisms to Address Maritime Impacts on Mediterranean Biodiversity

… on the part of the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, or IUCN concerning the legal status of any … reflect those of Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea or IUCN. This publication has been made possible … D.W. (2001). ‘Improving scientific decision-making in restoration of ship-grounding sites on coral reefs’. Bulletin …
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First report on the protection of the atmosphere

… of haze (largely originating from recurrent forest and land fires in Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam), the … respect to mitigation of damage to the environment and its restoration or reinstatement” (principle 3). It is … same Convention defines the territory of a State to be the land areas and adjacent territorial waters. The airspace …
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Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… changing agricul- tural practices and loss of agricultural land. The use of genetically modified organisms in cen- tres … who is engaged in the conservation of genetic resources of land races and wild relatives of economic plants and their … without any MTA; Article 15.1(b)(ii) allows for the restoration of genetic resources to Parties that supplied the …
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Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual

… back ‘upstream’ and finds an anthropocentric reason – land use, pollution, abstraction, livestock, introduced … of infection between livestock, people and wildlife. Local land use changes are also expected to exert temperature and … [Accessed March 2012]. Scheirer, R.S. (2009). Wetlands restoration and mosquito control. NMCA. http://nmca.org/ …
25 May 2026 Document

Vital Waste Graphics 3

… planet, more consumption, more waste, more pollution, less land available for landfills, and fewer resources, what will … to it. The main source of this pollution is apparently land-based, considering the increasing Plastics Paper Metals … is 21 times higher than carbon dioxide. The issue of land-use competition between food crops and crops being grown …
25 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Engaging people in sustainability

… America to develop comprehensive landuse plans and craft land and resource protection strategies. He has facilitated … throughout North America. His published work has covered land use and development conflicts throughout western North …
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Recycling used lead-acid batteries: health considerations (WHO)

… can, if not treated and correctly disposed of, contaminate land and water bodies. Used acid with high concentrations of lead is often dumped on land or released into waterways. Lead can enter the food chain through crops growing on contaminated land, from direct deposition onto crops, through food animals …
25 May 2026 Document

Mediterranean marine protected areas and climate change: a guide to regional monitoring and adaptation opportunities

… 2007). The causes of this process are manifold: changes in land use and carbon emis- sions, alterations in both … (AOGCMs), describ- ing the atmosphere, oceans, sea ice and land, and pos- sibly chemistry, the carbon and nutrient … to enable the seagrass to retain more carbon, through restoration programmes. Mediterranean saltmarshes and …
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Guidelines for public use measurement and reporting at parks and protected areas

… Wayne Schmidt, all of the Department of Conservation and Land Management of Western Australia provided a coordinated … and traffic from residents of villages surrounded by park land. Traffic for which counts are adjusted includes traffic … excluded are brief traffic across short sections of park land or waters, persons engaged in the pursuit of specific …
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