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Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects

… 4.2 Developing infrastructure investment portfolios … impact on reducing minor to moderate floods in relatively small and medium-sized watersheds. Trees intercept rainfall … Green roofs can help to counteract urban heat island effect. Several studies show that converting to green …
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The legal framework for the management of animal genetic resources

… that is being progressively gathered through the Country Reports in the framework of the First Report on the … (CGRFA) started the intergovernmental process for developing the strategy in 1994. The 1995 deliberation of … will remain the most cost-effective power source for many small and medium scale farms in developing countries. Another …
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The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners

… development, and sought to examine its implications for developing countries, for poverty reduction, and for the … approach. The Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS, … 46 (Eds.) Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation. Island Press, Washington, DC, pp.191–207. Fisher, E. and …
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RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions

… measures which constrain conservation and wise use 30 4.0 Developing legal and institutional measures to promote wise … as: the vulnerability of coastal and low-lying regions and small island States to predicted sea level rise; the importance of …
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Regional instruments on hazardous wastes- extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… 3. Convention to Ban the Importation into the Forum Island Countries of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes and to … regulatory action or voluntarily withdrawn in the country of manufacture due to health and environmental … applies to the South Pacific Region, where many small island states are situated. Two main differences with …
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Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc

… partners continued during the workshop on La Maddalena Island, Italy in 2004, funded by the Italian Directorate for … http://eelink.net/~asilwildlife/TIHPA-MOA.html 2.2 13 been developing rapidly since the late 20th century. Transboundary … needs to be large enough to capture the problem, and small enough to get traction among people whose interests are …
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Governance of the Mediterranean Sea : Outlook for the legal regime

… part of IUCN or Total concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authori- ties, or … (2) …Or Developing a New One? … two sovereign base areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in the island of Cyprus. However, the United Kingdom has not been …
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The "Chemical & Waste Conventions": the Basel Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

… developed country companies dumping hazardous wastes in developing countries – concrete example: the Probo Koala … (LDCs), developing countries/economies in transition, Small-Island Developing States (SIDS) and developed countries; To …
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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… training, resource materials and comparative experience In developing a package of support to the judiciary in the … come before community-based institutions are typically small cases, their effective settlement will serve the … from Maine, New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. This programme was, to our …
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ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests

… timber and funds projects and other actions aimed at developing industries at both community and industrial … forests should be revised. An initial meeting of a small group of stakeholders assisted the redrafting of the … Borneo. Science 303: 1000–1003. Diamond, J. (1975). The island dilemma: lessons of modern biogeography studies for …
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