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Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation
… Act of 2003 requires offsets for impacts that result in land-use change to forested areas. The recently enacted … 19), including undertaking projects that may affect their land, territory or resources including mining and other … or the safeguarding of essential user interests in land use, and has statues or regulations, documenting 137 …
Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… changing agricul- tural practices and loss of agricultural land. The use of genetically modified organisms in cen- tres … who is engaged in the conservation of genetic resources of land races and wild relatives of economic plants and their … or sell seeds for reproduction and replanting in their own land. Section 72 allows for the establishment of inventories …
Champions of Water Governance - Leadership building for local to transboundary water cooperation
… integrate watershed management into local economic and land use plans, and to support the establishment and oper- … at the borders of the three countries about sustainable land and water use. In doing so, they could support the integration of water and land issues, using their capacity to organise and produce …
Mediterranean marine protected areas and climate change: a guide to regional monitoring and adaptation opportunities
… 2007). The causes of this process are manifold: changes in land use and carbon emis- sions, alterations in both … (AOGCMs), describ- ing the atmosphere, oceans, sea ice and land, and pos- sibly chemistry, the carbon and nutrient … an overall view of the marine area (and any adjacent land areas) and inte- gration across all sectors, including …
The status of natural resources on the high-seas
… unproductive areas of the tropical ocean, distant from land, and greatest abundances are found in the coastal … separated. Deep-sea trenches are also often close to land where the wastes are created, such as mining tailings. … Important colonies of seabirds have been identified on land. It is far more difficult to ascertain the distribution …
Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… over the long run. As oil, clean water and arable land become scarcer, their cost as agricultural inputs … plant breeding. be expected from an expansion in arable land.12 Crop genetic resources contain the essential building … latitudes will be most se- verely affected by a decline in land suitable for cultivation, especially sub-Saharan Africa …
Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… issue of generic human rights, such as those related to land tenure, access to water and mineral resources, health … diverse farming systems have been shaped by physical land limitations, the combination of varied topographies and …
Sources of international water law
… States to the importation or exportation of goods by other land or water routes, or in other ports, shall be equally … of conventions for the prevention of marine pollution from land-based sources, in order to ensure that the present … the application of freshwater directly or indirectly to land for agricultural purposes; (g) production of water for …