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Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary

… 81 Soil 82 2.3.3 Noise Pollution 82 2.4 Environmental Assessment and the Approval of Projects 83 2.4.1 Alternatives … to adversely affect the environment, or to pose a health risk. There are more than 3000 natural and human-made … such as arsenic can cause skin damage and increase the risk of cancer, while nitrites and nitrates (mainly from …
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Sustainable tourism management in the transboundary areas of the Dinaric Arc region: Manual for planning, development and monitoring of tourism in the protected areas of the Dinaric Arc

… development of tourism requires constant analysis, assessment and monitoring. In order to provide consistent … 36 The risk of commodization can be monitored by those communities … front of top-down decision that can put sustainability at risk. The rescue and reveal of mythical pseudo-historical …
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The status of climate change litigation - A global review

… Contribution of Working Group III [WG3] to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate … of the consequences of climate change and the great risk of climate change occurring.” In reaching this … and RWE’s emissions—rather many emitters had created the risk of flood confronting Lliuya’s town such that the root …
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Development of IUCN policy on biodiversity conservation and synthetic biology

… Advice, and by the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Risk Assessment convened under the Cartagena Protocol on … to the Convention, for Parties to carry out scientific risk assessments with regard to potential effects on human …
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Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work

… Netherlands. • Michael Thompson, Senior Research Scholar, Risk Policy and Vulnerability Program, International … therefore would need to be considered in an environmental assessment. Unfortunately, with the current silo approach, … coordination and targeting only sector-specific optima risk increasing uncertainties across sectors and scales, …
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The Green Customs Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… e-learning courses—such as those on Customs controls, risk assessment, profiling and selectivity— Green Customs Guide 11 … Those chemicals are considered to pose a special risk for chemical weapons production. The OPCW also promotes …
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Change : Adaptation of water resources management to climate change

… scales required for water management. Therefore existing risk and uncertainty management approaches need to … with risks and uncertainties. Current approaches to risk management, such as expert-based operational rules, are … of expertise. In C h a p t e r 2 The evidence 6 its Third Assessment Report published in 2001, the Panel concluded that …
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Concepts for Industry Co-Regulation of Bio-fuel Weeds

… become weeds. Recent analysis suggests that bio-fuel weeds risk is potentially a substantial ‘downside’ of this … solutions’ like bans on importation apply a simplistic ‘risk- avoidance’ approach to the prevention of biological … protection. Weed insurance is non-existent; and weed risk assessment is merely a process for government quarantine …
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Technical guidelines on hazardous wastes: physico-chemical treatment (d9) and biological treatment (d8)

… and may reduce the degree of hazard and consequently the risk of environmental harm. C Converting hazardous … D9 would be thought appropriate for environmental impact assessment. (For further information on Environmental Impact … generated in a steady and consistent stream, with minimum risk of sudden variations in concentrations and constituents. …
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Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide

… for food and environmental security. Comprehensive Assessment Research Paper 1, Colombo, Sri Lanka: … A duty of care could require individuals who influence a risk of harm to the environment to take “reasonable and … should be taken beforehand in order to avoid or reduce any risk or danger to the ecological integrity of the soil …
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