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A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes
… 5 Valuing ecosystem services – a commoditization of biodiversity? … 14 List of Abbreviations BBOP Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme CDM Clean Development … and drivers determining the supply of ES in a specific coastal region. Main ES are identified and their spatial and …
Security considerations in the planning and management of transboundary conservation areas
… living far from the capital cities and in habitats of high biodiversity may be excluded from the mainstream of … limits. In marine TBCAs, the presence of naval or coastal patrols may have similar impacts, but can also … policy considerations. International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 19: 1–17. Shambaugh, J., Oglethorpe, J. and Ham, …
First report on the protection of the atmosphere
… small island developing States, countries with low-lying coastal areas, countries with areas prone to natural … of international law such as the law of the sea179 and biodiversity (forestry, desertification and wetland),180 as … biomass, forests and oceans as well as other terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems. See also article 2, paragraph …
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2014: A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
… the World Heritage Convention in protecting the planet’s biodiversity and natural heritage and positioning the worlds’ … time and raise public awareness of their importance for biodiversity conservation. ■ Identify the most pressing … the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and …
Issues in water law reform
… of property rights would improve production or biodiversity objectives without making some-one worse off … of fishing-right systems - the NSW experience. Ocean and Coastal Management 28(l-3):45-61. Young, M.D. and McCay, B.J. … areas in some European countries, 1980 (E F S) 21 Rev. 3 Coastal state requirements for foreign fishing, 1988 (EFS) 21 …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… of aquifers; and (g) concentration of economic activity in coastal areas as a result of urban growth, industrial … measures to control erosion, especially as it may affect coastal or freshwater ecosystems, lead to siltation of … beauty and ecological value, an important reservoir of biodiversity, the headwaters of major rivers, an essential …
CITES and CBNRM. Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”
… environment and development challenges. IUCN works on biodiversity, climate change, energy, human livelihoods and … biomass, forests and oceans, as well as other terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems that serve as sinks and … river-basin management”, “integrated marine and coastal area management”, maintenance of a “species …
Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual
… groundwater discharge (springs, surface water, wetlands, coastal zone) Water for people groundwater supply (drinking … flow and run-off. ■■ The river basin and its adjacent coastal and marine environment. The salinization of coastal groundwater resources has become a major issue for …
Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper
… develop and elaborate appropriate and integrated plans for coastal zone management, water resources and agriculture, and … water. Areas particularly sensitive to climate change are coastal zones and cities, estuaries and deltas, watersheds, … and increased soil salinity, deforestation and loss of biodiversity…” 165 U.N. Doc. A/HRC/12/24 (2009), above note …
Handbook 4: Avian influenza and wetlands
… as marshes, peatlands, floodplains, rivers and lakes, and coastal areas such as saltmarshes, mangroves, and seagrass … may commute between wetlands, rivers, fishponds. and coastal areas. In such cases, wider assessments of the risk … threatens domestic poultry and human health as well as biodiversity (particularly avian). Collaborators, working …