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Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types
… on the world’s oceans through fishing pressure and pollution. If the impacts of transboundary air pollution and … to roads, pipelines, power lines, cellphone towers, oil and gas Category Ib protected areas are usually large … permanent structures, mining, hydropower development, oil and gas extraction, agriculture including intensive …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… States of America and the United Mexican States Regarding Pollution of the Environment Along the Inland International … topic "Shared Natural Resources", comprising groundwater, oil and gas, in its programme of work. In addition, a trend … on water quality and quantity; (b) pipelines carrying oil or chemical products; (c) installations (facilities) for …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… on Human and Peoples’ Rights has decided cases concerning pollution and the exclusion of indigenous peoples from their … Peoples’ Rights concluded that “an environment degraded by pollution and defaced by the destruction of all beauty and … corporations that infringe on human rights through oil pollution, and then to ensure that there is an “adequate …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… human migration Monsoons, forest fires and associated air pollution Positive feedback to temperature from burning peat … open water in the region also make it more attractive for oil and gas prospecting, shipping keen to exploit shorter … Arctic cetaceans overlaps with known or suspected offshore oil and gas deposits and the threats associated with oil and …
Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources
… greater than the energy crisis faces us: the depletion and pollution of the planet’s limited supply of fresh water. Its … their basins with household, industrial and other wastes, oil products, fertilizers, toxic chemicals, radioactive and … 1. Hydraulic works, general means of communication, oil pipelines, gas pipelines, coal pipelines and multipurpose …
Handbook for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
… in decision X/19, from the year 2002: (a) Testing of oil, grease and total petroleum hydrocarbons in water; (b) … for spectroscopic measurements: (i) Of hydrocarbons (oil and grease) in water or soil (ii) Of simethicone … Sterilization of materials in a laboratory; (e) Testing of oil, grease and total petroleum hydrocarbons in water; (f) …
In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
… use of destructive fishing methods, coral mining, pollution, sedi- mentation, anchor damage and tourism, as … use of destructive fishing gear, anchor damage and pollution. At the same time, algae have increased as … et al., 1999; Zakai and Chadwick-Furman, 2002). Spills of oil and toxic chemicals, and dumping of other wastes, cause …
Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
… on the world’s oceans through fishing pressure and pollution. If the impacts of transboundary air pollution and … to roads, pipelines, power lines, cellphone towers, oil and gas Category Ib protected areas are usually large … permanent structures, mining, hydropower development, oil and gas extraction, agriculture including intensive live- …
European models of good practice in protected areas
… change to it will be from other causes, such as from air pollution, climate change and change in groundwater. Studies … on the chemical aspects of the environment, notably on pollution, changes in species population and in entomology. … reg- ulated solutions to the problem of used motor oil and the association of jewellers requesting studies and …
Towards Networks of Marine Protected Areas: The MPA Plan of Action for IUCNs World Commission on Protected Areas
… from the impact of extractive industries, localised pollution, and changes to its chemistry (ocean acidification) … ficiently duplicative so that a single event, such as an oil spill, would not eradicate that diversity. Given the …