Search results

Explore only content tagged with
245 Results
Sorted by relevance

Solutions in focus: Transboundary protected area solutions

… a way that conserves natural landscapes while enabling an intensive nature experience for visiting tourists. A broad …
31 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… and exporting the virtual water embedded in water intensive commodities. Global trade in bulk water is also … river ba- sin from natural vegetation to arable farming and cattle grazing. Removal of the natural vegetation … C relies extensively on aquaculture especially salmon farming on the section of the River X which flows through its …
31 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… for other domestic uses, such as washing and subsistence farming, as well as for commercial agriculture and industrial … of sewage from human settlements and of manure produced by intensive livestock breeding; (vi) Minimize adverse effects … 3 . Ensure proper disposal of urban sewage and manure from intensive livestock operations 18.76 d v 2 4 . Use integrated …
31 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Best practice guidelines for the re-introduction of great apes

… apes have been able to survive in marginal habitats with intensive support. Re-introduction manag- ers should consider … conflict is especially likely when provisioning is intensive and dispersal is constrained. Special structures to … groups that can be closely-monitored, and where there is intensive post-release monitoring, support and provision for …
31 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Towards a Pollution Free Planet - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… in the 1990s to account for 2011). Since then, the intensive use of pesticides, alongside improved management …
31 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

The rise of environmental crime - A growing threat to natural resources, peace, development and security

… 3 billion people around the world and the fish and fish-farming industry secures the livelihoods of between 10 and 12 … habitat, vital to their survival.222 Over thirty years of intensive conser- vation efforts managed to save this primate …
31 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Judicial handbook on environmental law

… communities, forest dwellers, and subsistence hunting and farming communities have long engaged in sustainable … of forests and agricultural lands, principally through intensive and environmentally unsound cutting and farming … in a process called “slash and burn agriculture.” More intensive, modern agriculture also occurs on a larger scale, …
31 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Value : Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure

… the productivity of irrigated agriculture with rain-fed farming, which is carried out in areas where irrigation is … production and import of foods), fisheries support (fish farming), as well as certain goods and services which could … considered its costs, including losses to production (fish farming, loss of rent from agricultural land, and effects on …
31 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Raising awareness of climate change: A handbook for government focal points

31 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become ill and … to include factors relating to the economy, tourism, farming and other activities. It has held that the right …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance