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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… whether at global, regional, national or local level. Governance systems are expressed through political and … area in situations where the river flows out into the sea. The water captured by the basin can be fed out into … State is the accuser and the other is the accused, giving rise to controversy that opposes the ultimate goal of an …
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Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas

… the system, particularly at the national and sub-national level, and Recommendations to IUCN and the international … very short history hints at some of the issues that gave rise to the move to develop a system for categorising … mountains, deserts, wetlands, ice caps, lakes and at sea Vary greatly in size Have been given many different names …
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Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual

… or implementing wetland management plans, from the site level to the regional level. 2. Wetland policy makers, … of animal diseases, including zoonoses. The recent rise in emerging infectious diseases has included … flamingo Phoeniconaias minor toxicoses � Salmon and trout sea lice Globalisation � Food production changes � …
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Sustainable tourism in protected areas: Guidelines for planning and management

… tools and technical advice to continuously raise the level of sustainability of the industry. In presenting this … of a protected area as follows: “An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and main- tenance … and rock platforms. The growth of MPAs appears to rise dramatically in the 1970s. This was largely because …
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Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)

… most at risk of biodiversity loss. By targeting a level of biological organisation above species, the IUCN Red … theory (Fig. 2) and by key examples such as the Aral Sea (Box 1). Ecosystem collapse may in theory be … altitude in the southern mountains (0.9°C for every 100 m rise in altitude; Simmons et al., 2012). Cloud forests on …
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Issues in water law reform

… -16- Entitlements are calculated at a specified level of security (say 98 percent) which can theoretically be … to deal with the problems to which these events had given rise. New regulations and ordinances had to be issued to deal … any case, the offshore zone, the beaches, the territorial sea, the natural resources of the economic zone, and the …
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Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… by such materials, are duly implemented. On the regional level, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights … to human life and health, and in the appropriate case give rise to an obligation on the part of a State to take … (9 May 1992); Article 206, UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (10 December 1982); Article I, Kuwait Regional Convention …
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First report on the protection of the atmosphere

… and the corresponding legal problems to which they give rise, while simultaneously providing the basis for a common … the atmosphere requires the Commission to have a certain level of understanding of the scientific and technical … naturally common to all are the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashores” (emphasis added).25 21. Sharia law, …
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Introduction to the international legal framework on Environmental Impact Assessment

… is carried out as a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and provides decision makers with information about the … and National Laws The conservation ideas that gave rise to EIA are central to international environmental law. … EIA concepts are also supported at the international level. In 1987, the United Nations issued the Goals and …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Introduction to the Convention on Biological Diversity

… is carried out as a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and provides decision makers with information about the … and National Laws The conservation ideas that gave rise to EIA are central to international environmental law. … EIA concepts are also supported at the international level. In 1987, the United Nations issued the Goals and …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity