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Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories

… ecosystem functions and helping to protect many fragile human communities and cultural landscapes. Around 11.5 per … forest area which are temporarily unstocked as a result of human interven- tion or natural causes but which are expected … left behind after the colonial period. The restoration of rights over land (and water), and over their resources, is a …
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Special Issue on Wildlife Trafficking II

… (1) depicts actual conduct in which 1 or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians is … captivity—from minimum feeding times, to positive physical human contact and play for dogs, to housing social marine … validation to conservation advocacy or investigating human rights abuses, yet they nonetheless have eyes and ears on the …
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Value : Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure

… balance sheet Understanding how ecosystems contribute to human welfare is critical Ecosystems maintain water flow and … water for all is perhaps the most basic requirement for human survival. It is also one of the most pressing … as well as detailed information about the allocation of rights, responsibilities and access to ecosystem management, …
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World Wildlife Crime Report - Trafficking in protected species

… ON DRUGS AND CRIME Vienna © United Nations, May 2016. All rights reserved, worldwide. ISBN: 978-92-1-148288-1 eISBN: … Animals like the tiger, feared and revered throughout human history, are now hanging on by a thread, their … “order”, and “genus” Timber Wood prepared in some way for human use TRIDOM Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkébé trans-border …
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Best practice for industrial-scale development projects

… on inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements, Goal 12 on sustainable production and … g. respect for the legal and customary land and resource rights of local communities, and their free and prior informed consent to any project that affects such rights; and h. significant penalties for legal non-compliance …
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Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work

… argue that if a river is to be sacrificed for the good of human society, sacrifice it well to maximum benefit. Instead … scarcity as threats to national (and very infrequently as human) well-being. There is also the excessive “populism” in … perhaps paradoxical, degree of trust and mutual respect of rights, lacking which as is often the case, the state has to …
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Supporting, promoting and strengthening local agri-food systems

… of universal values, as the inalienable right of every human being to live with dignity and in a good state of …
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EU Environmental Policies and Strategies in South-Eastern Europe - Training guidelines for involving CSOs from SEE in the implementation of EU nature-related legislation

… IUCN works on biodiversity, climate change, energy, human livelihoods and greening the world economy by … of the Western Balkans generally recognize democracy and human right principles, still consultation with CSOs is … use of natural resources in order to reduce the impacts of human activities on biodiversity and/or to increase the …
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The development of international environmental law at the Multilateral Environmental Agreements’ Conference of the Parties and its validity

… developed at and grew out of the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment.17 12 Each meeting of the CoP is numbered … protocol or amendment to the treaty, but do not alter the rights or obligations of the parties.61 However, the power to … policies, strategies and measures for minimizing harm to human health and the environment by hazardous wastes and …
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The valuation of ecosystem services: Are the challenges too many to ensure the maintenance of ecosystem integrity?

… the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis. Island Press, Washington, DC. 3 … of the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNEP 1972d); the 1992 Rio Declaration, …
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