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Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… promote: human rights; the right to health; the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with … and, as appropriate, traditional knowledge, knowledge of indigenous peoples and local knowledge systems, with a view …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Guidelines on Biofuels and Invasive Species

… where it does not occur naturally (i.e. non-native, non-indigenous). BIologICAl InVASIonS the phenomenon of invasions …
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The burden of proof in natural resources legislation: Some critical issues for fisheries law

… Forest legislation, passed to address the problem of indigenous people barricading forest roads to hinder the … on Human Rights,60 the African Charter on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights.61 Although there is an extensive and growing …
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In Transition: Bangkok's Ivory Market

… March 2015, establishing total protection for another non-indigenous species; currently very few non-native species are …
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Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 – 2012

… of its biodiversity, economic value, and importance to peoples’ livelihoods, thus filling an important … Mission is to achieve conservation and sustainable use of indigenous freshwater fishes and their habitats through gene- … the IUCN system for all of South Africa’s 20 689 recorded indigenous vascular plant taxa. Species accounts include …
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A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes

… Seeing ‘RED’? ‘Avoided Deforestation’ and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Forest Peoples Programme. …
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Issues in water law reform

… to make sure that change causes minimum disruption to peoples' perception of their existing rights. 3.1 Some … for implementation there. They also discovered that the indigenous peasants followed the practice of collecting water … Conquest, the relationship with water of the various indigenous cultures was both religious and practical. The …
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Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration

… community development and empower- ment (FAO, 2005b). Many indigenous peoples and their communities also rely on small-scale …
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In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs

… distances on the hulls of vessels or in ballast water. Non-indigenous sessile species have been introduced to reefs in …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… and at cabinet tables. Meeting water needs of the world’s peoples and ecosystems is a complex problem, there are no … Local or communal governance, as used in tribal or other indigenous settings, is the oldest form of water governance. … a common concern, throughout the world, traditional or indigenous platforms have been devised by local communities …
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