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Large Marine Ecosystems: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)

… human use of natural resources in LMEs, and activities on land and in the sea put LME health and productivity at risk, … continues at about 1 per cent per year, mainly driven by land clearing for development. By 2030, more than half of … human use of natural resources in LMEs, and activities on land and sea are degrading LME health and productivity, …
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D1 - Ecosystem Approach and Ecosystem Services

… V/6 of 2000 Principle 1: The objectives of management of land, water and living resources are a matter of societal … Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution from Land-Based Sources (Paris Convention), the 1979 Convention on … of natural ecosystems. Effective management links land and water uses across the whole of a catchment area or …
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Towards a Representative Network of Marine Protected Areas in Libya

… 3.3. HABITAT ALTERATION, POLLUTION AND LAND USE .......30 3.4. LACk OF AWARENESS OF CONSERVATION … human activities, in particular fishing, shipping, land and marine based pollution as well as invasive species. … the economic value of agricultural activity and changes in land usage, with more urbani- sation and development of …
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African solutions in a rapidly changing world: nature-based solutions to climate change by African innovators in protected areas

… and through relying on protected areas as a holistic land-management tool. By drawing on these experiences and the … and environmental education programmes. 5. participatory land planning To identify the priority intervention areas for … and the state agency in charge of forests. This way land tenure is being secured; a prerequisite for successful …
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E1 - Regulation of the Environment - Support Function of Groundwater Systems

… aquifer. It can also result in the subsidence of overlying land, which can destroy the storage and transmission … negatively affected. Further, contamination from various land-based human activities, such as, agricultural, … of aquifer pollution; (h) direct the owner or occupier of land to seal off any borehole situated on the land – (i) …
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Supporting, promoting and strengthening local agri-food systems

… to protection measures, and RECOGNIZING the role of the land-use matrix in the preservation of biodiversity and its … environmental services; WISHING to propose and promote new land-use visions and new processes of creating land- use projects in those periurban spaces for the purpose …
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Marine plastic debris and microplastics – Global lessons and research to inspire action and guide policy change

… of Action for the Protection of the Environment from Land-based Activities GPML Global Partnership on Marine … Litter prevention from land-based sources - GPA … 5.2 Land-based sectors generating macroplastic litter … 5.3 Land-based sectors generating microplastics … 5.4 Management of waste from land-based sources …
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State of Biodiversity in West Asia

… West Asia occupy only 1.34 per cent of West Asia’s total land area (Global Environment Outlook – GEO-4, 2007)5 but … dominated by limited water resources, a scarcity of arable land, fragile ecosystems and episodic droughts. The … agriculture systems and the cultivation of marginal land to meet population needs. This has resulted in an …
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Transboundary Conservation. A systematic and integrated approach

… and landscape protection, protection of the agricultural land and fisheries; (2) professional work in nature … from their neighbours by thousands of kilometres of land and maritime boundaries. Approximately one-third of all terrestrial high- biodiversity sites straddle national land borders. For this reason alone, there is a compelling …
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Global Mercury Assessment

… was evaluated separately, with total releases to water and land totalling more than 800 tonnes per year. Deforestation … the atmosphere) and releases (mercury going into water and land), that is, those associated with human activities. The … Committee (INC) for more information on releases to land and water. The aquatic environment is the main route of …
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