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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… of Process-based Legislation 217 17 Environmental Impact Assessment of Programmes and Projects 221 17.1 Outline of EIA … of land in and around cities and greatly increases the risk of urban encroachment and squatting in marginal wetland … regulated and monitored, can carry a significant risk of species introduction.69 In Europe, for example, the …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… 86 5.4 Environmental Impact Assessment … to a supranational authority, or that they run the risk of having changes being made to their international … or harm to the aquatic environment whenever there is the risk of such adverse effects, including situations where …
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Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas: Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas

… marine ecosystems; and iii) placed thousands of species at risk of extinction. Shipping, deep seabed mining, scientific … unique and impacted deep-sea ecosystems; draft assessment methods and criteria for determining the … thousands of fish, invertebrate and other species at risk of commercial if not biological extinction6. Other …
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International water governance: Conservation of freshwater ecosystems Vol. 1: International agreements compilation and analysis

… community participation and public awareness; n assessment and enhancement of the role of wetlands for water … or into any other place where there is an appreciable risk of the organism entering the lake basin, unless the … installations within their territory to reduce the risk of pollution of the lake and its environment ; n ensure …
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Special Issue on Wildlife Trafficking II

… restitution of $14,315.61 for natural resource damage assessment costs; and physical improvements to the facility … assessment can help prioritize which species are most at risk, the types of habitat modification that would be most … properly inspected or treated for plant pests, putting at risk multibillion dollar crops, or the illegal harvest and …
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Towards sustainable fisheries law: a comparative analysis

… ‘The Straddling Stocks Agreement of 1995: an initial assessment’. International and Comparative Law Quarterly 44: … must implement ‘improved techniques for dealing with risk and uncertainty’.141 These techniques are, however, not … have now recognised formally the amount of uncertainty and risk still involved in strategic assessment as well as …
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Second report on the protection of the atmosphere

… might provide some value to States, while minimizing the risk that it would complicate and inhibit important ongoing … See the first report (A/CN.4/667), para. 69. The IPCC 5th assessment report, Working Group III, Annex I, glossary, … A/CN.4/681 15-03176 8/50 health damage and risk, a broader term, namely, “degrading substances”,20 has …
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Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

… are due to colleagues at Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA), Division of Environmental Law and … 2030 Agenda, including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of … functioning Trends in climate change impacts on extinction risk Target 14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and …
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Global trends in the production and use of DDT for control of malaria and other vector‑borne diseases

… in 2009. Inadequate data were available for a global assessment of obsolete stocks and waste of DDT or amounts … quantities of DDT, to protect sizable human populations at risk of malaria and leishma- niasis with indoor residual … of PCDDs, PCDFs, PCBs and DDTs in human milk and benefit–risk evaluation of breastfeeding. Arch Toxicol. …
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Desertification and Climate Change

… at local, national and regional levels; (e) Implementing risk management applications to combat droughts and mitigate … at local, national and regional levels; (e) Implementing risk management applications to combat droughts and mitigate … at local, national and regional levels; (e) Implementing risk management applications to combat droughts and mitigate …
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