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Transboundary Lakes and Reservoirs: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)
… 1 SummARY FOR POLICY mAKERS ‘Aquifer’ means a permeable water-bearing geological formation underlain by a less permeable layer, with the water contained in the saturated zone of the formation; … uses. Without proper knowledge and management, this vast resource can be rapidly and irreversibly degraded. Pollution …
Transboundary Aquifers and Groundwater Systems of Small Island Developing States: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)
… 1 SummARY FOR POLICY mAKERS ‘Aquifer’ means a permeable water-bearing geological formation underlain by a less permeable layer, with the water contained in the saturated zone of the formation; … uses. Without proper knowledge and management, this vast resource can be rapidly and irreversibly degraded. Pollution …
Compilation of Internationally agreed environmental Goals and Objectives
… “… ensure the conservation of the important animal genetic resource diversity, for present and future generations, and … access to at least 40 litres per capita per day of safe water and that 75 per cent of the urban population are … and integrated plans for coastal zone management, water resources and agriculture, and for the protection and …
Energy law and sustainable development
… or the property regimes providing access to land sites or water bodies. Property rights often are a basic element of … the following: air pollution including "acid rain," waste water pollution, significant solid and hazardous waste … and differ across nations, depending on their natural resource endow- ments, i.e., whether they are blessed with …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… able practices in local communities, as models of natural resource management, stewardship and sustainable rural … landscape (when applicable), past and current land- and water-use practices and their links to cultural and spiritual … trade routes, historic settlements, intricate land and water-use systems, and traces of sophisticated social …
Adapting to Climate Change - Guidance for Protected Areas Managers and Planners
… Protected Area Guidelines are the world’s authoritative resource for protected area managers. Involving collaboration … by preventing, limiting and reversing harmful impacts on water systems and pollution of the atmosphere, and to the realisation of the integrated water policy objectives. https://en.vmm.be/ German Federal …
Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment
… ecosystem services (e.g. flood protection, supply of water and raw materials, genetic resources, etc.), unique … • Life support systems and ecosystem services such as water yield, water purification, breakdown of wastes, flood … or the maximum allowable disturbance level of a resource, population, or ecosystem, taking into account the …
Mapping the linkages between oceans and other Sustainable Development Goals: A preliminary exploration
… one SDG and other SDGs have been published for SDG6 (UN-Water, 2016), SDG4 (Vladimirova and Le Blanc, 2016), and … other SDG areas (ICSU, forthcoming). The In- ternational Resource Panel has explored the links between natural … Weitz and Nilsson, 2014, for climate, land, energy and water). As far as we are aware, a similar systematic exercise …
Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services : Guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas
… Protected Area Guidelines are the world’s authoritative resource for protected area managers. Involving collaboration … service provision area for sediment retention for drinking water quality, regulation of dry-season baseflows for drinking water provision, inland flood risk reduction for flood-prone …
Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments
… 3.5 Tenure of land, fisheries, forests, and access to water............................................... 37 3.6 … or lead to environmental degradation and water scarcity, thereby reversing development pathways … and gender equality, and address land and other resource rights affecting food security and nutrition‐ all …