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International ocean governance: Using international law and organisations to manage marine resources sustainably (revised)

… II.B.5. Environmental Impact Assessment — II.B.7. II.B.3. Land-Based Sources and Activities … — II.B.7. II.B.5. Airborne Sources: Ships, Aircraft, Land-Based Sources, and Offshore Facilities … 98 II-4 Pollution From Land-Based Sources and Activities … the Marine Environment 1990: Contributions by Sea-Based, Land-Based, and Atmospheric Activities …
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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… which a well-defined environmental service (ES) or form of land use likely to secure that service is bought by at least … 2). The IUCN adopts a broader definition: “an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and … on matters including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land and sea management and for working with Aboriginal and …
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A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes

… will inevitably involve trade-offs among the different land-use types, each of which provides a different mix of … managed landscapes, where agriculture is often a major land use. Ecosystem services, however, can often highlight … There could be a whole lot of different competing land uses that would compromise a sustainable supply of …
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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework

… and terrestrial ecosystems as well as weather patterns. Land, air, freshwater and marine pollution further threatens … biocapacity – the amount of biologically productive land and sea area that is available to regenerate these … for Indigenous people’s access to government resources or land. These can further expand the interpretation of the …
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Business and ecosystems : Ecosystem challenges and business implications

… (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O); � Changes in land cover that affect and alter water cycles and rainfall … to climate change in terms of: � CO2 emissions from land use changes, primarily deforestation; � CH4 emissions … emissions have occurred in the last 30 years. Changes in land use have significantly altered the capacity of …
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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… protected areas in southern Australia 88 6.9 Restoring the land and honouring the history of Lyell Island in Gwaii … degraded. Humanity directly affects 83 per cent of the land surface (Sanderson et al., 2002) and 100 per cent of the … values to be restored or maintained.’ Indigenous land ethics are based on a spiritual obligation to give back …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… school focuses on key thematic areas such as land use and food sovereignty, forests and large plantations, … increase access to information regarding environmental and land use projects in different areas and cities by enabling … applications, including licenses to remediate contaminated land, treat wastewater, dispose waste on land, and store …
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Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts

… and processing. As coconut grows in coastal areas valuable land is not removed from agriculture. Ecosystem preservation … initiative, 2005). Drylands—covering 40% of the world’s land mass and inhabited by only one-third of the world’s population—provide a prime energy service. Whereas land productivity decreases as aridity increases, the …
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Plant protection legislation

… The very process of producing more food from the same land area involves changes in the natural dynamic balance … Inspectors are usually authorized to enter upon any land, commercial and industrial premises, examine means of … permits for the cultivation of certain crops. Furthermore, land owners are obliged to take the measures prescribed by …
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Blue Carbon Policy Framework: Based on the discussion of the International Blue Carbon Policy Working Group

… National Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), the Land-Use, and some Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) activities including … GHG Inventories Volume 4 Agriculture. Forestry and other Land Use 11 Crooks, S. et al. 2011 Mitigating Climate Change …
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