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Compliance-Related Texts and Decisions of Selected Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… Committee Resolution No. 3 - Setting up of a pan-European Ecological Network (1996) … CONSIDERING that it is of utmost moral, biological, ecological and economic interest for all Parties to the … to the Convention who shall be persons of high moral character and recognized compliance-Related texts and …
International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review
… Part II General Aspects of MEA Compliance Regimes Legal Character of Compliance Mechanisms … of legal effectiveness, behavioural effectiveness and ecological effectiveness, but cautions that these approaches … are attributable to their participation in a treaty? (3) ecological effectiveness: how successfully have the …
Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types
… or slightly modified areas, retaining their natural character and influence, without permanent or significant … Large natural or near-natural areas protecting large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and … time has produced a distinct character with significant ecological, biological, cultural and scenic value: and where …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… that comprises soil, vegetation, other biota, and the ecological and hydrological processes that operate within the … (a) Geographic, hydrographic, hydrological, climatic, ecological and other factors of a natural character; (b) The social and economic needs of the …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… and nature over time has produced an area of distinctive character with significant aesthetic, ecological and/or cultural value, and often with high … intangible cultural values is related to tra- ditional ecological knowledge, a concept that has been defined as a …
Major components of the Ramsar Convention- extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… Importance (Ramsar List) and ensure the maintenance of the ecological character of each Ramsar site (article 2(1)). Wetlands should … for the List on account of their international biological, ecological, botanical or hydrological significance (article …
Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks
… www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/man-and-biosphere-programme/ about-mab/ … http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/man-and-biosphere-programme/about-mab/ … site admission criteria, since they stipulate the specific character and objectives of sites listed under each …
Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report
… Use of Soil 20 10.1 The Sustainability Dilemma 20 11. Ecological Integrity of Soil and the Need for Ecological Soil Standards 22 12. Role of Soil Institutions 23 … importance, including for example, preservation of natural character, protection of outstanding natural features, …
Issues in water law reform
… in one Australian jurisdiction; and • leading-edge ecological economic thinking, which is transforming the way … income and welfare, within the social, physical and ecological constraints of catchments, (b) where it is not … 1879, articles 129-146. -112- consumptive (and exclusive) character, were possible only by administrative concession to …
Principles and Guidelines on Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and Protected Areas
… organisations should ensure that the maintenance of the ecological integrity of protected areas remains the highest … peoples of their responsibility to conserve biodiversity, ecological integrity and natural resources harboured in those … modified land, and/or sea, retaining their natural character and influence, without permanent or significant …