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Restoring Forest Landscapes - An introduction to the art and science of forest landscape restoration

… working as a private consultant on a range of forestry and environmental management issues. William Jackson is the … management and thus responsive to social, economic and environmental change; and (iii) it requires a clear and … be quite possible to undertake restoration if the cause of damage was simply poorly supervised logging and if few people …
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Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change

… ones who are at greatest risk. However, for these people environmental variability and change is not novel or … past these communities have been exposed to many kinds of environmental changes and have developed coping strategies to … to Ultra Violet Radiation (UVR) causing chronic sun damage of skin and eyes; malnutrition in response to …
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A window of opportunity for the Mekong Basin: the UN Watercourses convention as a basis for cooperation - A legal Analysis o fhow the UN Watercourses Convention complements the Mekong Agreement

… states sharing the watercourse. It then outlines the environmental provisions by laying out the unqualified … for realizing this balance of sustainable development: environmental protection (Article 3); equitable and … proper and valid evidence that it is causing substantial damage to one or more riparians from the use of and/or …
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Sustainable tourism in protected areas: Guidelines for planning and management

… about tourism in protected areas, given the risk of damage and destruction to this unique natural resource. … for the conservation of such areas and for raising the environmental awareness of residents and visitors. These … as a consultant. During this time he also lectured in environmental management at the University of Notre Dame, …
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Sources of international water law

… 1.2.3.2 Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context - … Articles on Private Law Remedies for Transboundary Damage in International Watercourses - Helsinki, 1996 … data and information, including the results of any environmental impact assessment, in order to enable the …
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Food and Agriculture Organization (2017), Analyzing the benefits of implementing the IPPC

… health, international trade, international economics and environmental protection. This work has been developed by the … broadly as economic, trade facilitation, food security and environmental. The IPPC as an international treaty recognized … due to the invasive nature of some species that caused damage to either the environment or infra- structure such as …
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Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas: Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas

… Endangered Seas Programme Tomme Rosanne Young, IUCN Environmental Law Centre, Senior Legal Officer Tony Koslow, … WWF High Seas Marine Protected Areas Project. As a marine environmental lawyer, she specializes in marine biological … maturity at age 30) and deep-water corals means that the damage may be irreversible5. Many ongoing threats from other …
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Counting coastal ecosystems as an economic part of development infrastructure

… coastal areas. The paper describes how recent advances in environmental economic concepts and methods provide an … required — moving from approaches which fail to factor in environmental costs and benefi ts, to those which recognise … the remainder by erosion control and buffer against storm damage. In Sri Lanka, the costs and damages arising from the …
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World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 1: Wetlands: A natural safeguard against disasters

… weather- related disasters caused US$3.3 trillion in damage between 1980 and 2014. Using wetlands to minimize the damage from disasters Defined as land areas that are flooded … to a community or nation in human, material, economic or environmental losses. © U N EP © U N EP © J oy ln T y #Wet …
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Policy implementation and fisheries resource management: Lessons from Senegal

… ment programmeme (UNEP) is the overall coordinating environmental organization of the United Nations system. Its … and improve our scientific understanding of how environmental change oc- curs, and in turn, how such changes … (WT/CTE/W/167).2 Major ecological, economic and social damage is already ev- ident. In particular, declining catches …
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