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Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners

… Informed Consent (FPIC) before enacting projects on their land. This is in defence of their ancestral territories and … exhausted, there has been no thought to the state of the land in the aftermath of any of these interventions. Desert … and urban disorder, are but a few examples. Man-made land degradation caused by extraction projects, impacts the whole …
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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… to bring some order into this rapidly developing use of land and water, IUCN The World Conservation Union developed a … to regulate activities 21 Interpreting or clarifying land tenure and governance 22 Use of the IUCN categories for … protected areas are under threat or are undergoing actual degradation, and thus a greater emphasis on the management …
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The burden of proof in natural resources legislation: Some critical issues for fisheries law

… cost effective measures to prevent environmental degradation." This is the crux of the precautionary … the status of the North Sea.4 Despite regulation of both land based pollution and ocean dumping by regional bodies, … - Vol. II, 1983 (E) 31. The role of legislation in land use planning for developing countries, 1985 (E) 32. …
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Introduction to the CMS Family - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… wind farms, fences, roads, railways); habitat loss and degradation; by- catch; underwater noise; invasive alien … The Appendices of CMS include many mammals, including land mammals, marine mammals and bats; birds; fish; reptiles …
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Towards a mutually supportive relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Trade Organisation: An action guide

… trade plays in contributing to deforestation and forest degradation is difficult to gauge, although in some … management in production forests and conversion of land to cash crops), expansion of subsistence agriculture, … demand for fuelwood and charcoal, as well as inequitable land tenure patterns. On the other hand, trade based on …
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Transboundary water governance and climate change adaptation: international law, policy guidelines and best practice application

… (13) establishes that a river basin refers to the area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a sequence … 2 (15) defines the river basin district as the area of land and sea made up of one or more neighbouring river … and joint actions for the management of ecosystems degradation. Collaboration is articulated in framework …
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European models of good practice in protected areas

… Zone C obviously equates with Category V (Protected Land- scape) though the latter are usually much larger. And … of Opi. Zone C is a small part of the park, containing land farmed in traditional ways. Abruzzo has some of the … stone walls and stone- edged waterways. Fingers of grazed land stretch into the wooded hillsides. The relationship …
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Development of an analytical tool to assess national biosecurity legislation

… Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities; • United Nations Framework Convention … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities The Global Programme of Action for the … accruing benefits; and prevent pollution and ecological degradation" (draft Proposed National Constitution of 2005, …
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Transboundary River Basins: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)

… UNEP 2016). With some 80% of marine pollution coming from land-based sources, special attention should be paid to the …
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The economic lives of smallholder farmers - An analysis based on household data from nine countries

… 8 3 Labour, land and other capital … in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares.1 Many are poor and food … Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the …
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