Search results

Explore only content tagged with
333 Results
Sorted by relevance

Transboundary River Basins: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)

… 1 – Transboundary Aquifers and Groundwater Systems of Small Island Developing States: Status and Trends Volume 2 – Transboundary …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Farmer's Rights in the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… of continuous management and innovation by farmers, a small range of initial crops and varieties evolved into an … channel for increasing food security and nutrition in developing countries. The main challenge to increase food … with regard to plant genetic resources from the developing country perspective. However, it does not lay down any …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide

… watercourses depends on experts (lawyers and non-lawyers) developing a common understanding of the applicable rules and … to any international watercourse - this could include island nations. Non-riparian contracting parties do not … of the withdrawal will be negligible – only a very small percentage of the overall flow – but will bring huge …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Issues in water law reform

… also likely that any relevant compensation would have been small, because of the statutory rights granted to replace … own view is that these principles offer opportunities for developing allocation and trading systems which are much … to earth: Practical applications of Ecological Economics. Island Press, Washington DC. Costanza, R.; Waigner, L.; …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Special Issue on Wildlife Trafficking II

… prohibition has been applied. See, e.g., Ka’aina v. Kaua’i Island Utility Coop., No. 10-00169 ACK-LEK, 2010 WL 3834999, … its name, is films in which people impale and crush small animals, such as mice, kittens, and puppies, to death … seafood fraud, for example, false labeling as to species, country of origin, or method of harvest, the typical false …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 6 Cultural heritage -- Wetlands -- a cultural landscape

… to the development of Asian societies. In Binong on the island of Java, Indonesians have been growing rice for … and distributes the water through a complex system of small channels, under a traditional social mechanism, to the …
18 Jun 2026 Document

State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

… have declined: thus, the annual rate of change of the country’s forest area fell by 20 per cent over the period … edge. When ecosystems become fragmented they may be too small for some animals to establish a breeding territory, or … to increase the participation of scientists from the least developing countries.14 14 UNEP/IPBES/2/4/Rev.1. State of …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Nexus Governance: Harnessing contending forces at work

… on the part of IUCN concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or … and exchange knowledge, with the ultimate aim to move to developing and implementing practical actions. There are many … toolkits, has also allowed development partners large and small the luxury of not having to engage in hard critique and …
18 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Guidelines for Reintroductions and other Conservation Translocations (Version 1.0)

… invited Dr Mark Stanley Price to assemble and manage a small Task Force for the work. It soon became evident that … that give further detail. The background and rationale for developing these Guidelines are described in Annex 1. … This is a particular risk when translocating aquatic or island organisms. • Gene escape: gene exchange between …
18 Jun 2026 Literature

Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 9 Wetlands and spiritual life

… and islands. A similar relationship is seen in India, a country where drought is common and often life-threatening. … India, every village main- tained its own sacred kund, or small lake. A grove of trees around the kund helped retain …
18 Jun 2026 Document