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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… from direct runoff. bioaccumulate: the process by which an organism absorbs a toxic substance at a rate greater than … and functioning systems with highly regulated and modified human-engineered systems. These “developed” systems … for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships. 1973 (as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto) (available …
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A guide to the complementarities between the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on Biological Diversity

… (art. 8(i)) x x x x x x x x 4.4 Regulate/manage living modified organisms and share information (arts. 8(g) and …
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Capacity Development Needs and Priorities for Nature Conservation in South-Eastern Europe

… scorecard The UNDP Protected Area Capacity Scorecard was modified by the author to encompass all aspects of …
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Sustainable tourism in protected areas: Guidelines for planning and management

… or loggers), which tends to be retained, or only slightly modified. While this may be the easiest option, it is rarely … tourist-related development in national parks. They are modified here and developed as Guidelines, in the form of a … Collecting dead wood for firewood Very high Source: Modified from Manning and Lime, 2000. Protected agency …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… Subsequently, and in certain cases, this theory was modified to consider water as res communis, which means, … for the basin, that should be periodically reviewed and modified, • as and when necessary. The aforementioned plan, … waters, coastal waters and artifi- cial and heavily modified bodies of surface water. Additionally, Annex II …
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Second report on the protection of the atmosphere

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Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 – 2012

… status of species • Establishing dragonflies as indicator organism for ecosystem health (“guardians of the watershed”) … in Tampa, FL in late November 2011. • PSG membership was modified to improve international coverage. • PSG is … elevated. • Seagrass species are in the midst of being genetically assessed and our understanding of various species …
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Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities for conservation - Nature based solutions to desertification, land degradation and drought

… landscape of rangelands) and have been significantly modified by that management, the term “landscape restoration” …
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Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… the area was impaired, 30% of which had been substantially modified from its original condition.68 Today the MDBA lists … infringe on domestic laws, require that domestic laws be modified, or upset existing political interactions. 5.5.4. … pre-existing Boards of Control into Watershed Boards, with modified membership according to local circumstances. The IWI …
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Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… defined as a “dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment … to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems, which address societal challenges …
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