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Marine plastic debris and microplastics – Global lessons and research to inspire action and guide policy change
… to marine plastic and microplastic pollution, and their improvement will have addi- tional far-reaching socioeconomic … and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human … to be the most common use of the term. In engineering, soil mechanics, materials science and geology, plasticity …
UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide
… rises towards the ground surface. At a certain depth high soil evaporation causes the soluble salts in the local geology to migrate to the soil surface causing problems of high soil salinity. This has … and long-term review of water quality maintenance and improvement; (f) Take into account the degree to which …
Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers
… effectiveness, together with major efforts regarding the improvement of government effectiveness. By providing … collective land title has been conferred and of rights to soil and forest resources in the San Juan Territory have … | Appendix use and sale of surplus. The use of soil and timber resources is a recognised statutory right. …
Energy subsidies: Lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms
… situation occurs when the social gain or environmental improvement exceeds the economic cost. But, experience in the … central regions and lateritic in the South. In general, soil fertility is very poor and the soil is extremely vulnerable to wind and other forms of …
Legal frameworks for REDD: design and implementation at the national level
… related to factors like vegetation layer, fauna, and soil, or the loss of carbon stocks on remaining forest land) … also has a negative impact on biodiversity, watershed and soil protection, and local climate regulation.5 The loss of … of deforestation in the surrounding areas, due to the improvement of monitoring and governmental inspection …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… Stockholm Declaration that “[t]he protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which … the laws of nature. Environmental milieu (air, water, soil) and all species are interdependent. Harm to one aspect … as nonrenewable resources, such as mineral deposits, some soil nutrients, and fossil fuels, are capital assets. Yet, …
The valuation of ecosystem services: Are the challenges too many to ensure the maintenance of ecosystem integrity?
… Regulating services, such as pest control, flood control, soil fertilizer, and water filtration are considerably more … ecosystem services, such as the production of oxygen, and soil formation. See further the Millennium Ecosystem … were high through, for instance, the negative impacts of ‘soil subsidence’, or when the sea level rises faster than …
The Role of legal instruments to support Green low-emission and climate-resilient development - A guidebook on assessing, selecting and implementing legal instruments
… conscious of how demands on key resources such as water, soil and renewable energy sources are shifting through … new transportation alternatives such as bicycle lanes; improvement of mobility by improving the speed, regularity, … energy, environment, fisheries, food, forestry, land and soil, livestock, mineral resources, sea, waste and hazardous …