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Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2015: Investing in environmental sustainability to achieve social and economic development
… marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on best available scientific information (14.5) … marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on best available scientific information, by … frame Indicators National 5.6.1. Promote environmental tax reform to reduce tax on labour and integrate the …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… large-scale infrastructure projects, and macro-economic reform have all too often jeopardised poor peoples’ … development projects and government responsibilities for law enforcement have been neglected. Few park agencies have … versions as de facto rights. They can arise from customary law derived from the norms and practices of long established …
Global Land Outlook
… evolution of land administration systems in some common law countries. Survey Review 35 (272): 83-102. 7 Munro-Faure, … in Islam, 2nd edition, IUCN Environmental Policy and Law paper No. 20. Gland, Switzerland. 33 Sulayem, M. and … existing land tenure systems through redistributive land reform or forced land collectivization as in the various …
A critique of transboundary natural resource management in Southern Africa
… and other nations (Helm 1998). Fifth, international law for manage- ment of transboundary resources is poorly … These include amongst other issues, incon- sistencies in law and policy, conflicts between community and private interests, unresolved imperatives of land reform, confusion around the organisational roles and …
National Blue Carbon Policy Assessment Madagascar
… Arab Emirates UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on … 2010). Madagascar adopted its flagship environmental law, the National Environmental Charter, in 1990 and the … blue carbon ecosystems. The current national land tenure reform programme (Programme Nationale Foncière - PNF) is …
Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies
… fiscal instruments (taxation, subsidies, environmental tax reform) – may help initiate a process of economic growth and … to the laws of thermodynamics25, beginning with the law of entropy (Georgescu-Roegen, 1971). In accordance with this law, each economic activity (production, consumption, …
Patents and clean energy technologies in Africa
… one being patent rights. The Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC) of the United Nations Environment … and facilitation of interna- tional environmental law, governance and policy. In this way, DELC assists the … the African countries have often to update and otherwise reform their IP and patent laws, their related legal frame- …
Albania and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… www.iucn.org/mediterranean IUCN ELC: IUCN Environmental Law Centre IUCN Environmental Law Centre Godesberger Allee 108-112 53175 Bonn, Germany … institutions in the Republic of Albania, but after the reform of 2006-2007 when most of its scientific institu- …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… terms. It has far broader implications, such as for law, institutional structures, the allocation of funds, … by the events of the early 1990s, and it required a reform of Estonian political institions and legislation to be … 2003, with the result that the plan now has the force of law. Further information • K. Sepp & A. Kaasik. 2002. …
IUCN Knowledge Products. The basis for a partnership to support the functions and work programme of IBPES
… . . . . . . . . . .48 ECOLEX: the Gateway to Environmental Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … services include ECOLEX: the Gateway to Environmental Law, and the IUCN Green List of Well-Managed Protected Areas. … how to contribute to the development of new legislation or reform of existing legislation. NGOs, academics and advocacy …