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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… and Institutions 62 5.2.3 Poorly-adapted Legal Regimes for Land Tenure and Resource Use 64 5.2.4 Jurisdictional and … 180 13 Integrating Wetland Conservation and Wise Use into Land-use Planning 183 Box 2. Wetlands and Regional Planning … permanently destroyed and lose any potential for future rehabilitation. In addition, wetland reclamation is often …
Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects
… pollution is diffuse runoff from cultivated or industrial land. Some of the most frequently used infrastructure … sense of security and, when coupled with inappropriate land-use patterns - such as dense housing within deep … lower parts of the Tana Basin as part of a wider ecosystem rehabilitation scheme to promote improved water and ecosystem …
Biodiversity Planning Law. International and National
… and ex situ, including through ecosystem management and land use policies, as well as for the fair and equitable … possible, towards soil conservation, improvement and rehabilitation. A similar provi- sion relating to water is … agreement also contains specific provisions in relation to land-use planning. While the emphasis is on natural …
Compilation of Internationally agreed environmental Goals and Objectives
… 9. Soil, land use, land degradation and desertification … resources and agriculture, and for the protection and rehabilitation of areas, particularly in Africa, affected by … increase financing for post- disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation, and establish and strengthen effective early …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… of case studies 27 IndIgenous peoples 27 Power on this land; managing sacred sites at Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area, Northeast Arnhem Land, Australia Bas Verschuuren, Mawalan II Marika and Phil … cessfully implemented a LIFE project re- lating to the rehabilitation of coppice Quercus frainetto and Quercus ilex …
ASEAN Handbook on legal cooperation to combat wildlife crime
… of confiscated specimen 3.14 Compensation for victims/ rehabilitation/ costs of repatriation of seized wildlife 3.15 … any forest produce or minerals; e. clear or break up any land for cultivation or any other purpose; f. poison or … forest, in such a manner as to endanger the reserved land. Offences in reserved forest. Subject to the provisions …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… advice provided by Jacob J. Burke, Senior Officer in the Land and Water Development Division of FAO, on points of … purposes of this Convention: (a) "desertification" means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub- humid areas … (i) prevention and/or reduction of land degradation; (ii) rehabilitation of partly degraded land; and (iii) reclamation …
Solutions in focus: Transboundary protected area solutions
… and environmental benefits of investing in the river’s rehabilitation, the issue has garnered the attention of … the area’s natural and cultural history, legislation, land use, and management plans; part B, the 10-year vision, … other five Italian protected areas, creating a continuous land stretch comprising all the ecological successions from …
Sustainably Investing in Rangelands - Jordan
… and biodiversity). This strategy involves halt range- land›s degradation by minimizing its underlying causes … 2.3 LAND USE IN THE JORDAN … stock ponds; maintenance of existing ponds; Rehabilitation of ground water wells; check quality Increased … ments, stock ponds; maintenance of existing ponds; Rehabilitation of ground water wells; check quality Increased …
Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador
… 22 2�3 Land use planning for forests … 51 3�2�3 Land rights and tenure … rather than on ecosystem services. The creation or rehabilitation of protected areas developed rapidly during … China has initiated investment projects and schemes for rehabilitation and restoration of ecosystem functions. The …