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Conservation and sustainable development in mountain areas
… weak position to bear opportunity costs to forego land and resource uses incompatible with ecosystem conservation. The … benefits to catchment forest reserves, village natural resource committees, and farming households. This alone will … approach These trends can be turned around. Traditional resource management systems can provide bases for policies …
Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas
… Protected Area Guidelines are the world’s authoritative resource for protected area managers. Involving collaboration … Further expansions proposed have been blocked because of mineral extraction in the surrounding areas (Harrington, … for non- wilderness land uses such as forestry or mineral extraction, they cannot easily be restored. Sometimes …
Land and water - the rights interface
… words, decisions regarding the use and allocation of one resource impact directly or indirectly on the use and … And while otherwise barren land may contain oil or other mineral wealth beneath its surface, water will almost … from the cycle by human intervention – for the bottling of mineral water – sooner or later it is used and will flow as …
Towards sustainable fisheries law: a comparative analysis
… legal certainty, integrate higher rank human rights and resource protection obligations, clarify objectives, lay out … Coordinating Ministry for Economy, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, and Director of National Oil Company … significance and a few are currently being exploited. The mineral content of Mrima hill in Kwale is comprised of an …
Assessing environmental impacts - A global review of legislation
… the general public. It can for example be used as a resource for NGOs to better understand the concept of EIAs … the Authority began developing a regulatory framework for mineral exploitation in the Area (the so- called … include the drafting of the regulatory framework for mineral exploitation in the international seabed Area and the …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… toward clean, renewable, and sustainable forms of resource use. Indeed, the proposition that the world needs to … services, as well as nonrenewable resources, such as mineral deposits, some soil nutrients, and fossil fuels, are … I N D E V E L O P I N G T H E G R E E N E C O N O M Y 2 3 resource depletion or the degradation of these resources. …
Landscape conservation law. Present trends and perspectives in international and comparative law.
… the acceptability of major infrastructure, tourism or mineral projects for example. The EC and national, regional … to projects for energy generation and transmis- sion, and mineral extraction. Many of the most highly valued landscapes … acknowledges that European landscapes are a common resource, for whose protection, management and planning they …
Compendiums on Human Rights and the Environment - Selected International legal materials and cases (Advanced Version)
… Kenya: Natural Resource Management Project (P095050) … O N M E N T 2 2 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (signed and adopted, but not in … global environment (Article 2). Under the Protocol, all mineral resource activities, except scientific research, are …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… in the past has seemed like an almost limitless natural resource, including as a source of food. This is far from the … K, Marcinko CLJ, Martin P, Sanders RJ. 2014. Where is mineral ballast important for surface export of particulate … sea-level rise, such as flooding frequency and the mineral sediment supply. This section focuses on carbon …
Addressing the problems of access : Protecting sources, while giving users certainty
… gained extensive international experience in genetic resource issues (ABS and GMOs) through collaboration with key … parties (users, source countries, source communities and resource owners, user countries, researchers, middlemen and … "assurances" regard- ing what will happen after the resource has left the country; and • Lack of incentives for …