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Strategic Report: Environment, Peace and Security - a Convergence of Threats

… 28 Land …  Environmental quality: crimes adversely affecting air, land, and water typically involve companies and/or organized … sites (power plants, manufacturing facilities, mines) and agricultural activities (use of pesticides and fertilizers) … health and environmental risks; 29  Industrial and agricultural activities rely on environmentally destructive …
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Addressing the problems of access : Protecting sources, while giving users certainty

… Support for conservation 15 2.2 Different treatment for agricultural genetic resources and ex-situ collections 15 2.3 … since under such a law, every market transaction involving agricultural products would be an "ABS transaction." Other … acknowledge the difference between the owners of the land, from which the spec- imen is collected, the owner of …
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Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 17. How land tenure impacts the use of management data to delineate … been converted to human use such as cities, large-scale agricultural areas, and transportation corridors. The … from the following list of standard threat classes: Agricultural expansion and intensification Annual crops – …
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Global mercury waste assessment - Review of current national measures

… in Uruguay Alejandro Mangarelli Ministry of Housing, Land Planning and Environment, Uruguay Aleksei Konoplev … wide strategy on the management of wastes from med- ical, agricultural and other sectors. The National Conser- vation … in the coming decades. The increase in industrial, agricultural and health wastes has increased mercury …
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Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… Mondial IMELS Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea IUCN International Union for the Conservation of … of the western Balkans. The shoreline is a narrow strip of land (2-10 km wide) separated from the country by the high … areas currently covers 124,964 ha or more than 9% of the land area of Montenegro. The country’s five national parks …
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Managing MIDAs - Harmonising the Management of Multi-Internationally Designated Areas: Ramsar Sites, World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO Global Geoparks

… And that is before we consider the expansion of agricultural land, exploratory drilling and extraction of oil and gas, or … GGN Global Geoparks Network GIAHS Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (FAO) GLOCHAMORE Global Change …
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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

… spiritual value. Covering almost 12 percent of the world’s land surface, the global protected area system represents a … Temporary measures, such as short-term grant- funded agricultural set-asides, rotations in commercial forest … land-use patterns, e.g., as evidenced in sustainable agricultural and forestry systems and human settlements that …
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Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work

… between water, energy and food (or the management of land for food, fodder, and fuel production) – the nexus – has … of Sussex, UK. • Tira Foran, Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia. • Stephen Biggs, … resources ‘commons’ such as water, air, forests and land or even minerals span an ownership spectrum with shades …
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Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

… COMMUNITIES RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION LIFE ON LAND PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS CLIMATE ACTION … COMMUNITIES RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION LIFE ON LAND PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS CLIMATE ACTION … manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss). The …
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Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)

… protection, in contrast, refers to the protection of human land use, including the sustainable development, … forests are illegally occupied and converted to land for agricultural use or cattle ranching. 74 Ibid., p. 14. 75 … food inse- curity, unequal distribution of available agricultural lands, economic interests, legal markets of …
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