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The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… and growth rates. The accepted poverty line for access to freshwater is 1,000 cubic meters per person per … parameter * Severe High 94 553 * Defined as the land ratio without vegetation coverage (forest area and … of Water laW10 freshwater habitat modification. Most land-based activities, such as agriculture and human …
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Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual

… back ‘upstream’ and finds an anthropocentric reason – land use, pollution, abstraction, livestock, introduced … of infection between livestock, people and wildlife. Local land use changes are also expected to exert temperature and … (WWT). 1.5 Effects of disease on livestock Despite access to veterinary care and management, disease often has a …
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Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… 57 3.4.2. Procedural human rights: Rights to access to information, free speech, free assembly, … Development Bank AFOLU Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use AMCOW African Ministers’ Council on Water CBD … 6 Lao PDR Lao People’s Democratic Republic LULUCF Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry MDBA Murray-Darling …
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A guide to designing legal and institutional frameworks on alien invasive species

… 34 3.2.4 Public Participation and Access to Information … of this type can usually be addressed through conventional land-use and environmental management regulations or … contributing directly to such degradation in- clude land clearance, intensive exploitation and pol- lution. Many …
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Legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable soils: A preliminary report

… Wuhan University, China Back cover photo: Crops in steep land, Dr Jean Louis Janeau, Institut de recherché pour le … of Soil 10 2.1.2 Cultural Functions of Soil 11 2.1.3 Land Use Functions of Soil 11 3. The Nature of Soil 11 4. … using land at higher intensity to capitalise on greater access to international markets. This cycle establishes a …
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Forests and protected areas : Guidance on the use of the IUCN protected area management categories

… 7 Structure of the Guidelines 8 2. Forests and the land-use mosaic 9 What is a forest? 9 Does the FAO definition … cultural landscapes. Around 11.5 per cent of the earth’s land surface is in protected areas, 10 per cent of the … population – over a billion city dwellers – have no ready access to either potable water or adequate sanitation. An …
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Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks

… can be regarded as a strategy for the management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation … of areas that are host to valuable biodiversity with local land-use needs through the delineation of core areas, buffer … array of habitats, allowing species populations access to a sufficient area of habitat (for foraging, the …
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Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation

… 17 3.3.1 Land Law (2003) … unaware of the country’s statutory laws and do not have access to them. Customary rules and practices, which have … of the formal and informal systems, as needed; and improve access to justice, legal awareness, and legal empowerment at …
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Perspectives and guidelines on food legislation, with a new model food law

… In the coming years, countries will have improved access to export markets, but this will be accompanied by … would include legislation addressing public health, water, land and the environment. Chapter 3 aims to assist … and the methods of disease control differ from those of land animals. The Code gives detailed definitions of the …
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The economic value of wild resources in Senegal : A preliminary evaluation of non-timber forest products, game and freshwater fisheries

… take account of the full costs and benefits of alternative land uses. This report presents a summary of findings of … the underlying resources may be ignored in official land-use planning and in large-scale investment projects. … lifestyle. This in turn implies very different access to both wild resources and market outlets, compared to …
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