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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… variations. Actions such as implementation of tree fences, organic fertilizers, home gardens with organic farming, diversification of products, soil and water … and sub-tidal litter debris environments (deposited organic refuse from mangrove areas). These different habitat …
Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas
… true for other environmental certification systems such as organic farming and the Marine Stewardship Council. Efforts … These tend to be NGOs involved in activities such as organic farming, sustainable fishing and certified forest … for example the UK-based Rainforest Foundation has been a persistent critic. The Sustainable Forestry Initiative in …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… Scientific Conference of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM). University of … their livelihoods. The restriction was later lifted after persistent Rights-based approaches Exploring issues and … (Stevens 1993). All Sherpa families continue to maintain organic farms whose potato and other fields are fertilised …
Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, polychlorinated terphenyls or polybrominated biphenyls including hexabromobiphenyl
… of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants. Van den Berg, M. et al, 2013. …
Aquaculture - site selection and site management
… capacity to absorb and assimilate excess loading of organic compounds and nutrients. Therefore production should … (NRM) and biodiversity conservation is fundamental and persistent, and surrounds not only underlying natural systems … is also indicated, and in some countries heavy metals and pollutant levels are required or can be measured. Analysis of …
The Aarhus Convention:An implementation guide. UN/ECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
… Transboundary Air Pollu- tion on Heavy Metals and on Persistent Organic Pollutants, endorsement of the Pan-European Strat- … the Convention holds that information concerning pollutant emissions which is relevant for the protection of …