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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
… 49 4.4 GLPCA Management Committee … IUCN is one of the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organisations. Founded in 1948, the Union … sets a required performance level for good governance, sound design and planning, and effective management that lead …
Net Positive Impact for biodiversity. The business case
… institutions’ performance standards for biodiversity management. • The business case for NPI centres on the … impacts, and benefiting from a credible reputation for sound biodiversity management. What is this paper about? NPI … private sector companies are increasingly adopting environmental management and biodiversity conservation …
Sustainably Investing in Rangelands - Jordan
… its underlying causes through enhancing sustainable range management, improving range vegetation cover quantitatively … Zarqa Governorate, then transfer these practices to other environmental areas in the Kingdom due to its economic, … viable, and socially acceptable and ecologically sound SRM measures for investing in the Jordan rangelands? 3. …
Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
… that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful global environmental agreement in history. Along with the Vienna … � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 674 Destruction, disposal and management of banks�� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � … � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 810 xiv Contents Sound records of the meeting�� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � …
Water as a human right?
… IUCN Environmental Law Programme Water as a Human Right? The World … and international society is critical for ensuring better management and planning for meeting basic water needs. The … have the right to a secure, healthy and ecologically sound environment. This right and other human rights, …
Document - Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… SUSTAINABILITY Technical background document for theme 3: “Environmental Laws and Regulations” and theme 4: … – GOOD PRACTICES IN THE FIELD OF SUSTAINABLE FRESHWATER MANAGEMENT … mechanisms for cooperation between riparian states, sound management practices over water resources as well as …
Protecting human health and the environment: A guide to the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals and pesticides
… It also seeks to encourage the environmentally sound management of these chemicals when their use is permitted and … in many countries, be exported to nations where health and environmental controls are less advanced? That is certainly a …
Sharing Information with Confidence. “The Biodiversity Commons”: past experience, current trends and potential future directions
… provide a background to issues of biodiversity information management and to set some suggestions for a framework for … development of open access protocols also provides a sound technological basis for information sharing. The … to public information, participation and legal action on environmental matters was emphasised in the Aarhus Convention …
Rule: Reforming water governance
… water governance capacity is the foundation of efficient management of water resources. Water governance reform … water law: practical steps 68 Chapter 4. Building a Sound Institutional Mechanism 71 4.1 Building governmental … Iza and Robyn Stein Chapter 1 Dr Alejandro Iza, IUCN Environmental Law Centre (ELC), Robyn Stein, IUCN Commission …
Global trends in the production and use of DDT for control of malaria and other vector‑borne diseases
… 8van den Berg et al. Malar J (2017) 16:401 strengthen the sound management of DDT through its ‘life cycle’ stages [5]. A … awareness among coun- tries about the adverse health and environmental conse- quences of DDT, and the need for …