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Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… and Culture Both the Samburu and the Raika expressed a deep connection to their livestock and explained how they … nature that is both intimate and sacred. We experience a deep sense of kinship with the plants and animals and treat … (IUCN) defines a protected area as “an area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of …
Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks
… 59 Case study 11. Wadden Sea of Lower Saxony (Germany) … beds and the rare impermeable bedrock make the rains seep deep into the ground soon after and during precipitation. … from serious water shortages. With the development of deep ground-water exploitation that started in the 1960s, …
Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group
… the murders we know about occurred in remote villages or deep within rainforests – it’s likely the true death toll is … an environmental organisation dedicated to protecting sea turtle nests from illegal poaching. the poachers had … volunteers to the beach to try to see a leatherback sea turtle. on their return to the rescue centre where they …
Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter Management for the wider Caribbean Region 2014
… Oceanographic Commission/IOC Sub-Commission for Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico IOC-UNEP/CEPPOL - Intergovernmental … UNCLOS - United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNDP - United Nation Development Programme UNEP-CAR/RCU - … UNEP. (2006). UNEP. (2006). Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Deep Waters and High Seas. Switzerland: UNEP/IUCN. …
Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador
… a specific natural monument, which can be a landform, sea mount, submarine cavern, geological feature such as a … of its success requires the development of fairly deep legal and institutional roots. 4.5 Summary Costa Rica … factors must also be taken into consideration. Sustained deep inequalities in access to, and use of, natural resources …
Water as a human right?
… biodiversity is widely in decline. The Aral Sea had lost 75% of its total volume by 1998 due to the … in a serious controversy with Syria and Iraq; the Arab Sea basin, where more than 20 million people in five basin … such as nuclear desalination of sea water, drilling deep into groundwater aquifers – all of which have their own …
Improving governance of pastoral lands
… in preventing and managing risks. However, mobility has a deep social and cultural influence among pastoralist … will be moved to other ponds or wells. On the other hand, deep wells in Borana are vital dry season resources and often … 2009; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 1982). Principle 11: Common heritage and common …
Commodities at a Glance - Special issue on Shale Gas
… streams. Finally, wastewater may also be reinjected into deep underground formations. This solution has been largely … water (e.g. saline water, brackish water extracted from deep aquifers and wastewater produced from previous … depletion of its natural gas reserves, mainly in the North Sea in 1980– 2014, by -72 per cent, led natural gas …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… comparative law dimensions. I should like to express my deep appreciation of the excellent work that has been carried … matter. Of the remainder, some 13 per cent is contained in deep aquifers located between 800 and 4,000 meters below the … will mean not only higher temperatures but also rising sea levels, altered precipitation patterns, and an increase …
Sharing governance! A practical guide for marine protected areas in West Africa
… attached to and dependent upon the concerned land, sea and resources, managing the areas requires the prior … we used to eat and that the fish the men pull out of the sea are smaller and scarcer... We have to figure out why. We … Promote the taking of unilateral action: at times a deep-seated distrust about the sincerity or good intentions …