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The status of climate change litigation - A global review
… 3.2.2 The Right to a Clean or Healthy Environment … of pollution in their immediate vicinity, impairing local water resources’ quality or quantity or both. Recognizing … of Climate Change Litigation public’s right to clean water, and they abrogated government agencies’ obligation to …
Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
… 55 Inland water protected areas … 61 11. Compatibility of various inland water protection strategies with IUCN categories … are established as protected areas in application of the right of self-determination, exercised mainly through: … and problems or there are doubts about whether the right category was chosen in the first place. However, …
Energy law and sustainable development
… or the property regimes providing access to land sites or water bodies. Property rights often are a basic element of … the following: air pollution including "acid rain," waste water pollution, significant solid and hazardous waste … As an Observer in the UN General Assembly, IUCN has a right and duty to participate in such meetings to provide its …
A window of opportunity for the Mekong Basin: the UN Watercourses convention as a basis for cooperation - A legal Analysis o fhow the UN Watercourses Convention complements the Mekong Agreement
… ICJ International Court of Justice IWRM Integrated Water Resource Management LMB Lower Mekong Basin MA Mekong … Equitable and reasonable refers generally to the equal right among states sharing an international watercourse to use its water for their own beneficial and sustainable purposes in …
Community - based incentives for nature conservation
… survival. A good land base, fertile soils, regular water supply and protection against climatic extremes all … of industrial effluents or by-products into land, air and water. For example, in Case Study 4, urban and industrial … nature under these circumstances, because people have no right to benefit from them. Conversely, if they have no …
Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report
… of Soil Sciences (IUSS); the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWC); the European Soil Bureau … and Management (which became part of the International Water Management Institute in April 2001) (IBSRAM). We wish … Soil management procedures; • Financing soil protection; • Right to information on sustainable use of soil and public …
Policy implementation and fisheries resource management: Lessons from Senegal
… to the resource, what would be the criteria defining that right, and should there be a charge for access to the re- … there is a positive perception of the payment of access right for small-scale fishing as a means of regulating … growing zones, which constitute the reservoirs of open water fisheries. The young shrimps migrate from the estuary …
Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power
… wetlands continue to decline; the number of countries with water shortages continues to increase; and fisheries continue … in providing secure environmental services (such as water and clean air) to all humans, rural and urban, wealthy … to support poverty reduction as a fundamental human right and development goal. The conservation approach …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… 62 7.2.2 Public participation 65 7.2.3 The right to develop 67 7.2.4 The rights of indigenous peoples 68 … on both ocean circulation and on the structure of the water column. When ocean currents encounter these massive … primary production there is generally limited; cold, deep water by contrast is usually nutrient- rich (Dower and Fee, …
Case studies on bioenergy policy and law: options for sustainability
… for food security. Competition over the use of land and water resources for bioenergy production and for agricultural … pressures on these resources at a time where global water reserves are dwindling and potentially greater effect … utilization of natural resources to ensure the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger. In addition, …