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Improving governance of pastoral lands

… fruits, forests, trees, heathlands and even roadsides and urban margins. This requires adequate access rights and often … a multistakeholder process of dialogue and participatory planning, and mediating between the community and government … products to rapidly growing and increasingly affluent urban populations. Development efforts in Africa in the 1970s …
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Energy law and sustainable development

… to public health from air, soil, and water pollution in urban centres such as Bangkok, New Delhi, Mexico City, or … high-tension electric lines not placed over congested urban residential areas without undertaking health impact … and insufficient investments in urban-transport planning, traffic management and infrastructure, are creating …
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UNEP. The first 40 years

… of initiatives designed to address the problems of urban transportation, not to speak of global warming! The … whole raft of environmental measures. The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947, which introduced a great volume of new … that are specifically directed at environmental goals — urban water supply and sewerage treatment, for example, as …
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Second report on the protection of the atmosphere

… 205, WMO (September 2012); David Simon and Hayley Leck, “Urban Adaptation to Climate/Environmental Change: Governance, Policy and Planning”. Special Issue, Urban Climate, Volume 7, pp. 1-134 (2014); John A. Arnfield, …
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Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.

… versus Faqir and another, PLD 1962 Peshawar 51 426 6.1.1 Urban Development 433 6.1.1.1 NWFP Urban Development Board (Dissolution) Ordinance 2002 433 … hoardings, fire fighting, land use control, zoning, master planning, classification declassification or reclassification …
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Change : Adaptation of water resources management to climate change

… economic and political realities. Current water resources planning and management is beginning to take a system’s … other ecosystems; or allocating more water to higher-value urban and industrial purposes. • Change location: people and … higher intensity rainfall; • Constructing or improving urban storm water evacuation infrastructure. Strategic …
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The environmental impact of economic incentives for agricultural production: a comparative law study

… for Farmers in Developing Countries, Agricultural Planning Studies No. 8, Rome, p. 1. - 5 - resources. The … and thereby enhance land productivity, and protect the urban areas and public works from flooding (article 1). When … interest, in cases where the erosion threatens the urban areas, public works or those of public utility, …
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E2 - Prevention of Aquifer Pollution

… and abstraction, point- source pollution (mainly from urban sources such as municipal sewage treatment plants, … legislative frameworks and institutional cooperation in planning and licencing procedures. 2. Groundwater Quality … of nitrates and phosphorus in soils. Stormwater runoff in urban areas and airborne pollution transmitted by …
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Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide

… assis- tance of the new Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources in the prepara- tion of this … large-scale commercial forestry, road construction and urban development cause soil erosion and loss of nutri- ents. … including deforestation, agricultural intensification and urban expansion, which cause soil degradation. ■ Accelerated …
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Technical Guidelines on wastes collected from households (Y46)

… waste, in particular, decays rapidly. 7. In cities and urban areas, waste is collected for disposal in specially … were built, usually at a higher density, particularly in urban areas, the area needed for the disposal of waste … elsewhere. In many instances, and almost always in urban areas, it is discharged into a sewerage system through …
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