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Large-scale marine protected areas - Guidelines for design and management
… primary management objective(s), which should apply to at least three-quarters of the protected area – the 75% rule. … organisations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or … require time. Many initiatives around the world are being developed to improve how ocean governance supports are …
Statutory recognition of customary land rights in Africa - An investigation into best practices for lawmaking and implementation
… practiced by the majority of the people in the country the poor, rather than the elite. If they do not, they … can quickly become an uncharted terrain on which the least powerful are vulnerable to exclusion as a result of the … excuse, the land has not been cultivated, used or developed to the satisfaction of the land board….in …
Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… 7 EXTENT OF FOREST RESOURCES AND FOREST CHANGE RATE BY COUNTRY OR AREA 2000 – 2005 (FAO, … peoples who have in many cases been pushed to the least fertile and most fragile lands as a consequence of … exposed to many kinds of environmental changes and have developed coping strategies to face these phenomena. These …
Evaluating effectiveness : A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas
… carried forward by an expanding network of regional and country offices, located principally in developing countries. … and depths. The Framework for management effectiveness developed by the IUCN World Commission for Protected Areas … and protected area systems have been undertaken for at least twenty years, often by non-governmental organizations …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… and Development (BMZ) concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or … and dispute resolution. Future agreements may be developed within the legal framework of the 1997 U.N. … and to offer incentives for other States to sign on, or at least to commit themselves to a similar course of action. The …
Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs
… or the MAVA Foundation concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or … of MPAs in Montenegro. The expert analyse has been developed by the IUCN-Med and IUCN ELC recruited by SPA/RAC … this Law, public maritime domains is a strip of land, at least six metres wide starting from a line reached by the …
Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… greatly in importance and type according to the fuel and country. In the OECD, most energy subsidies are still … to be paid for – often out of general tax revenues. At the least, governments should think seriously about the … the Caribbean ECOGEM computable general equilibrium model (developed by OECD) EEA European Environment Agency EEC …
Connectivity Conservation: International Experience in Planning, Establishment and Management of Biodiversity Corridors
… Law Programme, Asia. Ms Katherine Warner, IUCN Country Group Head, Viet Nam, PDR Lao and Cambodia provided … this study identified were adopted in 1996. Since 2000, at least nine countries have enacted legislation enabling … southern and eastern Africa. These initiatives have been developed with high level political patronage. They serve …
Environmental Security and the Role of Law
… several coun- tries, organizations and initiatives have developed working definitions.9 The Millen- nium Project,10 … were given individual instructions and a hypothetical, country-specific, negotiating mandate and were guided by … a ‘double-blind’ basis by in- ternational experts from at least two different countries for each paper – the process …
Water-related conflict and security in Southern Africa: The SADC Protocol on shared watercourses
… several coun- tries, organizations and initiatives have developed working definitions.9 The Millen- nium Project,10 … were given individual instructions and a hypothetical, country-specific, negotiating mandate and were guided by … a ‘double-blind’ basis by in- ternational experts from at least two different countries for each paper – the process …