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Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines
… purposes. The use of fire for land clearing, forest waste disposal and rural work is only admitted in the locations, … shall be controlled, prescribed forest burning (burning of waste, weed and twigs) shall be conducted and burning …
Modern water rights : Theory and practice
… reduced incentives to conserve it. A desire to prevent the waste and over-use of water through the introduction of … aquifer, and works to increase the recharge and prevent waste or pollution of the aquifer. The board has 15 selected … and other comparable instruments for the discharge of waste and wastewater directly to or indirectly into a water …
Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
… Haygood, Environmental Consultant and former employee of Waste Management. Some companies and many conservation groups … Haygood, a consultant who used to work on these issues for Waste Management in the US, says that best practice on conservation improved Waste Management’s relations with regulators and helped them …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… of treatises or explanatory reference material at their disposal to which they may turn for guidance. Second, in … water quality, air quality, hazardous substances and waste. For example, the dumping of radio-active waste at sea may result in harm not only to aquatic life but …
The burden of proof in natural resources legislation: Some critical issues for fisheries law
… Procedure7, under which a potential dumper of industrial waste in the North East Atlantic region has to prove, among … to use the information which he legitimately has at his disposal to demonstrate his innocence. A small minority of …
Global Land Outlook
… and consumption, and ensuing levels of food loss/waste, further accelerate the rate of land use change, land … of storage and transport while in wealthy nations, food waste is a result of profligacy and inefficiencies towards … of the finite quantity of natural resources at our disposal, a recognition of their importance to our survival, …
Feasibility study on establishing transboundary cooperation in the potential Tara-Drina National Park
… water quality. There is a general problem with solid waste management in the Drina River watershed. This prob- lem … tion and pollution of soil is connected mainly with solid waste management. Research studies on heavy metals in plants, … the region (some villages, new tourism settlements) waste disposal, some- times illegal, creates a problem and poses a …
A Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners
… with disasters. ● Putting in place means for managing waste and controlling pollution (procedures, facilities, … and disturbance of wildlife, habitat damage, erosion, waste, pollution, vandalism, pest species). ● … markers, paths, trails, rest areas, picnic sites, garbage disposal and associated structures). ● Planning and …