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Review and Analysis of specific Transboundary Natural Resources Management (TBNRM) Initiatives in the Southern African Region
… legal systems recognise this right. However, effective access to a remedy requires more than just statutory … conflicts between traditional law and general law, land tenure, land use and planning may place significant constraints on …
Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches
… WATER I. DRINKING WATER CHALLENGES II. LEGISLATING ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER III. CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES 8. … permits held. catchment (watershed): a discrete area of land with a common drainage system; includes both the water bodies that convey the water and the land surface from which water drains into those bodies. club …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… that recognizes the interlinkages—for example, between land and water, agriculture and water, technology and water, … voluntary measures, market and information-based tools, land-use management and cost recovery of water services, … without cost recovery objectives becoming a barrier to access to safe water by poor people, and adopt”. This call …
Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Access to information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … and terrestrial ecosystems as well as weather patterns. Land, air, freshwater and marine pollution further threatens … biocapacity – the amount of biologically productive land and sea area that is available to regenerate these …
EU Environmental Policies and Strategies in South-Eastern Europe - Training guidelines for involving CSOs from SEE in the implementation of EU nature-related legislation
… and strengthening, increased transparency and better access to information are needed. As part of the EU efforts … Assessment (SEA), Appropriate Assessments (AA) and land use planning documents. Ecological networks, as one of … in the 1970s and 1980s, in countries where a strong land use planning tradition had created the institutional …
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 … resources. From what we have seen, despite having access to these resources, this development does not reach …
Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… in Brazil that cover an area of 75 million hectares of land. National parks, of which there are 70, are one of … Africa covering over 3.7 million hectares of protected land representing the indigenous fauna, flora, landscapes and … 1-11: Urban protected areas and people 1. Provide access for all; reach out to diverse ethnic groups and the …
Integrated coastal management law: Establishing and strengthening national legal frameworks for integrated coastal management
… Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Paris), UKTS 64 (1978), Cmnd. 7251; 13 … Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Athens), 19 ILM (1980), 869. In force on … 22. In force on 16 February 2005. 1998 Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… institutions 101 Institutional arrangements for tenure and access 103 Institutions at the landscape level 106 Devolution … decision-making and participation by local communities in land-use decisions. Participatory decision-making involves the willingness of outsiders to negotiate land-use objectives and ways to meet those objectives. The …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… managing and monitoring impacts arising from rainforest access and visitation; conservation principles and … from The Christensen Fund, LTS International, The Sacred Land Film Project, UNESCO and WWF International. Published … the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, are asked to respect …