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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines

… an urban future of misery, insecurity, and environmental degradation on a truly awesome scale.’ Contrary to a commonly … where participants are taught propagation techniques, soil preparation and other skills. In addition, healers are … coincide with periods when fires cause more damage to soil, seeds and reproducing animals. This is the case in …
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Poverty, equity and rights in conservation : Technical papers and case studies

… inertia. 10. Social inequalities and environmental degradation tend to lead to mutual reinforcement. Wealth, as … of environmental services; in return, environmental degradation affects the poor more than the wealthy, the … and cumulative relation between poverty, environmental degradation and underdevelopment. In The Social Costs of …
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International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review

… Loads: Possibilities and Constraints’, 15 Water, Air and Soil Pollution (1995) 201-213; Hans-Dieter Nagel and … assisting devel- oping countries to reverse environmental degradation and implement a number of 36 See, for instance, … and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination’ (Target 3.9). This is …
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Croatia and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… of the Continental Shelf and the Seabed and its Sub-Soil (Madrid 1994) Republic of Croatia signed the Protocol. … fertilizers used in agriculture, erosion of contaminated soil, run off from urban areas, roads, unmanaged landfills … whereby over- lying sediments are removed (fertile soil, forests, meadows, etc.) and mineral substance …
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Sharing Information with Confidence. “The Biodiversity Commons”: past experience, current trends and potential future directions

… of biodiversity loss, climate change and ecosystem degradation. Three things have become clear in researching … of biodiversity loss, climate change and ecosystem degradation. A world full of unused information The … give rise to different entitlements to the product of the soil of the common, e.g. to the pasture, to sand and gravel, …
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Development of an analytical tool to assess national biosecurity legislation

… from importing any plants, plant products, plant pests, soil, manure, grass, packing materials or any other material … accruing benefits; and prevent pollution and ecological degradation" (draft Proposed National Constitution of 2005, … the importation and exportation of any plants and the soil, packages, coverings or wrappings thereof and any other …
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Land and water - the rights interface

… lake.50 Throughout this process some water enters into the soil where it is held as capillary water and returns directly … to the atmosphere by way either of evaporation from the soil or through absorption by plants and then by … have significant effects on infiltration rates through the soil surface, on the water retention capability of soils, on …
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The Enivronmental Crime Crisis - Threats to Sustainable Development from Illegal Exploitation and Trade in Wildlife and Forest Resources. A UNEP Rapid Assessment

… Climate change emissions from deforestation and forest degradation Species extinction Endangered forests Mafias FISH … UNFCCC-COP, Reducing Co2 Emissions from Deforestation And Degradation in The Democratic Republic of Congo: A First … 29. Government of Nepal, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation and Department of National Parks and …
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Water Management and Stewardship

… and ground water bodies (‘blue’ water) and water in soil and plants/crops (‘green’ water) is taken into account. … and ground water bodies (‘blue’ water) and water in soil and plants/crops (‘green’ water) is taken into … corporate water behaviour Discussion Paper resources and degradation of water ecosystems’. For water stewardship to …
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Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project

… for multiple strategies that take account of environmental degradation and local social and economic conditions (see … environmental costs for countries, among them a loss of soil productiv- ity, loss of vegetation cover, reduced food … and animal species. However, steep terrains are prone to soil erosion, and ultimately land degradation, if poorly …
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