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Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report
… to many challenges facing our planet, from climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution to poverty eradication. They … critics or their family members were threatened with the loss of their jobs or livelihoods. In many countries, such …
Customs and Constitutions: State recognition of customary law around the world
… and practices of indigenous and local communities” for biodiversity conservation, the past two decades have … negotiations. The role of customary practices in biodiversity conservation is explicitly acknowledged in the … the Fokontany (villages) to take measures to prevent loss of their land, but also extends this to protection of …
Policy implementation and fisheries resource management: Lessons from Senegal
… management, the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, marine and coastal ecosystem man- agement, and … ident. In particular, declining catches have resulted in a loss of more than 100,000 jobs in the last few years among … in the industrial fishing zones. This often leads to the loss of fishing devices and material and/or corporal damages, …
Addressing the problems of access : Protecting sources, while giving users certainty
… for bioprospecting 56 4.2.4.2 External transfers for biodiversity inventory 56 4.2.4.3 Costs of tracking resources … like the 391 Decision of the Andean Community, the Biodiversity Law of Costa Rica and the Provisional Measure of … 3 Government alteration for other causes and the loss of a vested right. 61 See Australian Government. …
Economic valuation of ecological functions and services of natural ecosystems
… of the information needs on the economic value of biodiversity and natural ecosystems. We extend our … the human and environmental system. 26 VI. CONCLUSION The loss of natural ecosystems has direct economic impacts which …
Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters
… local communities, these projects work to reverse habitat loss, restore ecosystems and improve people’s well-being. … Governance BSWC Black Sea Women’s Club CBD Convention on Biodiversity ccGAP Climate Change Gender Action Plans CSO … thematic networks on e. g.protection of water resources, biodiversity conservation, cross-border cooperation, …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… The Zilla Nazim shall be personally responsible for any loss, financial or otherwise, flowing from the decisions made … operate farms for breeding of wildlife and conservation of biodiversity and nature reserves subject to any law for the … In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (i) “biodiversity” or “biological diversity” means the variability …
Legal aspects in the implementation of CDM Forestry Principles
… other aims in areas such as freshwater conservation, biodiversity and land degradation in order to better achieve … and forestry activities contributes to the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable use of natural resources.” The … having a plantation area of 5 million ha, is reporting a loss of forest cover of 23 million ha in the ten year period …