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Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services : Guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas

… 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 …
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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines

… level of professional and scientific management and high-quality tourist services. http://english.knps.or.kr/ … plantations, the mountains eroded, endangering the city’s water supply. When they were reforested, recreational use was … 77 14. Control encroachment 80 15. Monitor and manage water 80 16. Manage wildfires 82 17. Reduce impacts of noise …
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European models of good practice in protected areas

… Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management Published by: IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, and … Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management Copyright: © 2004 International Union for … up in abundance on the beaches – a sign of environmental quality. Raptors soar above the deep gorges of Minorca. 2 …
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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 … has had in abating pollution and enhancing environmental quality throughout States such as Singapore, the UK, the USA, …
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Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… Mrs. Jill Harry, of Deadline SARL, who ensured the quality of the language in English while Prof. Dragana … hydrografic structures are present related to surface water and groundwater regimes. The Skadar lake between … level and is fed by the Moraca river and by underground water sources on the bottom of the lake. The effluent River …
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Review of laws, policies and economic instruments related to payment for ecosystem services in Vietnam

… scenic beauty Wetlands Flood control, waste treatment, water supplies, biodiversity Mangroves Shoreline protection, … in national law National law, including the Law on Water Resources 1998, the Land Law 2003, the Law on Forest … users of various goods which depend on good environmental quality, or on ecosystem services: for example water, natural …
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Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?

… pastoralism maintains soil fertility and soil carbon, water regulation, pest and disease regulation, biodiversity … in order to clearly inform consumers of issues surrounding water scarcity, carbon emissions and freshwater pollution. … have been plagued with uncertainty, reflecting the poor quality and comprehensiveness of global datasets. In fact …
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Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks

… Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Netherlands. Published by IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, … can be regarded as a strategy for the management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and … ‘ecoregions’ – that is, relatively large units of land or water that harbour a characteristic set of species, …
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Sharing governance! A practical guide for marine protected areas in West Africa

… the governance structure The shared governance bodies The quality of the governance Learning by doing 18. Implementing … in maintaining the conditions essential to life (climate, water and energy cycles) are at the roots of the liveli- … or sub-tidal environments together with their overlying water and associated flora, fauna, historical and cultural …
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Can carbon dioxide storage help cut greenhouse emissions?

… burn the fuel. It results in a flue gas containing mainly water vapour and CO2. The water vapour is removed by cooling and compressing the gas … << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /JPEG2000ColorImageDict << /TileWidth 256 …
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