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Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management
… supply-oriented) have proven inefficient to cope with the adverse impacts of drought, leading to overexploitation of … heterogeneous landscapes that are prone to degradation; • adverse impacts of climate change in recent decades …
Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… information on their actions that may have an “appreciable effect” on the environmental. The Czech Republic has adopted … proposed activities that are likely to have a significant adverse impact on the environment and are subject to a … relevant) to determine whether the project will have any adverse effects on the historical site(s). If there are …
Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report
… causes soil compaction by livestock trampling. In turn, an effect of overgrazing is the increased opportunity for water … of natural landscapes and vegetation and includes the adverse effects of overgrazing, excessive tillage, … conservation of nature, establish methods to assess the adverse effects on nature, and implement international legal …
Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… is the range of plausible climate futures and the unknown effect that any individual management action may have. This … how proposed actions are intended to reduce the adverse effects of climate change, or to take advantage of … (consequence). Key risks are those with potentially severe adverse consequences for humans and social–ecological …
Ratification and Implementation Guidelines
… Global Mercury Assessment.4 Both documents highlight the adverse impacts of mercury to human health and the … ance” or “approval” of a treaty have the same legal effect as ratification. In the practice of certain states, … can take additional domestic measures to address the adverse health and en- vironmental impacts these traditional …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… as regulations, rules, norms and other tools with legal effect (for example, contracts). It includes all instruments … duty”). ‘Environmental harm’ is defined as any potential adverse effect on an environmental value (s 14). … or other management strategies; (l) Where a significant adverse effect on biological diversity has been determined …
Global biodiversity outlook 4 - A mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
… progress in some regions Fisheries have no significant adverse impacts on threatened species and vulnerable … recent reform of fertilizer pricing has been brought into effect to liberalize the prices of potassium and phosphate … for all depleted species, fisheries have no significant adverse impacts on threatened species and vulnerable …