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IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas: User Manual, Version 1.0 - The global standard for protected areas in the 21st Century
… is endowed with legal or customary rights with respect to land, water and/or natural resources. Stakeholder Individual … research within or about PAs, including social sciences or land-use planning • Sustainable development or environmental … according to the following operational procedures: The tenure for each member is five years, renewable once. …
Principles of phytosanitary legislation
… and the economies of countries where 50 per cent of the land is still being tilled with rudimentary equipment. (c) … carrying out phytosanitary policing at airports, ports and land borders in order to control the health status of plant … law, 1986 (E F S) Turkey) - Vol. I, 1975 (E F S) 41. Land tenure systems and forest policy, 1987 (E F) 11. Fundamentos …
Transboundary protected areas for peace and co-operation
… 3 Box 1.1 Definitions Protected Area An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and … 1994a). Transboundary Protected Area (TBPA) An area of land and/or sea that straddles one or more boundaries between … to a boundary. Where practicable, issues related to land tenure and rights of access to and use of natural resources …
Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… - lakes, ponds, rivers and coastal fringes - and any land which is regularly or intermittently covered or … and it is governments who, in various ways, control land use within their borders. It is therefore surprising how … type, general description, principal vegetation, land tenure, protection, land use, importance to waterfowl and to …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… advice provided by Jacob J. Burke, Senior Officer in the Land and Water Development Division of FAO, on points of … purposes of this Convention: (a) "desertification" means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub- humid areas … law 127 4. Parties shall develop and implement land tenure policies able to facilitate the above measures, inter …
Security considerations in the planning and management of transboundary conservation areas
… initiatives 3 2.1 TBCAs do not equal “no man’s land” 7 2.2 Why “peripheral border posts” were not acceptable … of Transboundary Conservation Areas 1 “An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and … to a boundary. Where practicable, issues related to land tenure and rights of access to and use of natural resources …
Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper
… The human rights to health, housing (including secure tenure), and food are foremost among these, along with human … the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources, while preserving the integrity of …
Flow : The essentials of environmental flows
… enterprise. After all, the river runs through his land, and his family’s maxim has always been that "a drop … practices and regulations, for example related to land-use, water rights and in-stream uses. Provision of an … have been as low as $6.3 million.83 The institutional and tenure system governing land and water in a specific context …
Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… The most common causes of forest fires are human-induced: land clearing (especially for shifting cultivation, other … Fire management is the discipline of using fire to achieve land management and traditional use objectives, together with … groundwater resources law, 1986 (E F S) 41. Land tenure systems and forest policy, 1987 (E F) 42. Regional …
Manual of Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements
… guidance to the financial mechanism; (b) mechanisms; (c) land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF); and (d) compliance, … or part thereof, as an RPPN, without losing the right to tenure. To encourage designation of these conservation areas, …