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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …