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Briefing Note 2: Wetlands and water storage: current and future trends and issues

… investment in water storage schemes. However, direct cause-effect relationships are not clear: national wealth may … 2004, Hanjra et al. 2009). However, largely because of the adverse environmen- tal and social impacts that they can … The World Bank has produced criteria for assessing likely adverse environmental impacts of dams (Ledec & Quintero 2003) …
18 Jun 2026 Document

Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy

… not as a right to a bio-cultural way of life has had the adverse consequence of forcing ILCs to organize themselves … harvest to ensure that the medicines will have their full effect, and believe that only harvested leaves or bark that … diversity through in situ conservation and minimize the adverse effects on biological diversity of any project …
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Significant Trade in Wildlife: A Review of selected species in CITES Appendix II - Volume 2 Reptiles and Invertibrates

… whether the levels of trade were having a detrimental effect on the wild populations. Therefore it was recommended … 1986); local utilisation as a food source may also have an adverse effect in conjunction with these factors. These … to be limiting the spread of C. crocodllus populations was adverse ecological factors, such as saline conditions …
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Review of the Legal and Policy Framework for Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa

… responsible, the originator principle comes into effect. The best-known principle derived from this is the … international law regarding liability and compensation for adverse effects of environmental damage caused by activities … including economic and military might. Notification of Adverse Effects In addition to the obligation not to cause …
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Review and Analysis of specific Transboundary Natural Resources Management (TBNRM) Initiatives in the Southern African Region

… responsible, the originator principle comes into effect. The best-known principle derived from this is the … international law regarding liability and compensation for adverse effects of environmental damage caused by activities … including economic and military might. Notification of Adverse Effects In addition to the obligation not to cause …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… Province, Thailand 51 Introduction 51 Poverty reduction 52 Effect on biodiversity 54 Additional impacts 54 Partnerships … approaches often do not adequately take into account the adverse impacts of conservation activities on the rural poor. … there is little or no obligation to mitigate the adverse impacts of land-use change. In most developing …
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GUIDANCE on feasible flame-retardant alternatives to commercial pentabromodiphenyl ether - 2009 (UNEP/POPS/COP.4/INF24)

… in a range of non-human species, to cause significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, such … by ATH has been shown to be partly due to the “heat sink” effect and partly due to the dilution of combustible gases by … has restrictions in some countries. The potential adverse effects of several of the halogenated flame …
18 Jun 2026 Document

Environmental Guidance Note for Disaster Risk Reduction - Healthy Ecosystems for Human Security

… analyses (linear regression) showed that the buffering effect of the class without Pandanus was significantly lower … account. The analyses further revealed the channelling effect of the inlet, as many houses along the inlet were … of developing countries, which will have to cope with the adverse effects of climate change especially countries with …
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Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group

… trespassing or other ‘minor’ offences, which may have the effect of intimidating them and removing them from the public … an ngo in Cameroon, tried to draw attention to the likely adverse consequences of a palm oil cultivation project … proposed activities that are likely to have a significant adverse impact on the environment and are subject to a …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Aquaculture - site selection and site management

… making. A definition of the concept is given and the effect of mismatches among scaling factors on site selection … this maximum production level does not cause irreversible adverse impacts. • An assessment should be made of the … and shellfish farms or, in particular, of any potential adverse effects on the pelagic ecosystem. Monitoring of …
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