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Strategic Report: Environment, Peace and Security - a Convergence of Threats
… entity to generate profits, which results in harm to our ecosystem, by damaging environmental quality, hastening … biodiversity loss, and depleting natural resources. Our ecosystem relies primarily on the conservation of … traffic and trade. It consisted in building a bridge, an island, and a tunnel, involving the use of heavy machinery on …
First report on the protection of the atmosphere
… most vulnerable to climate change, including small island developing States, countries with low-lying coastal … and restore the health and integrity of the Earth’s ecosystem. In view of the different contributions to global … of the concept of common concern has been explored from an ecosystem orientation, http://undocs.org/A/RES/43/53 …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… decision-making to improve livelihood security, human and ecosystem health. www.iucn.org/asia/mekong_dialogues Contents … livelihoods and promote conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In order to gain further experience on … sources and seem to be well aware that wetlands provide ecosystem services, particularly filtration and purification. …
Rule: Reforming water governance
… Initiative is an action programme to demonstrate that ecosystem-based management and stakeholder participation will … and fair allocations, protect water quality for human and ecosystem uses as defined by water policy, and set up an … on the perception of water as an integral part of the ecosystem, a natural resource, and a social and economic …
Beyond access : Exploring implementation of the fair and equitable sharing commitment in the CBD
… relationship between a genetic resource’s uniqueness, its ecosystem and its value 92 5.5.2 The CBD – an obligation to … needed to prevent negative environmental impacts to the island hydrological system, caused by unrestrained water … 1995. “Coastal Zone Management in Eastern Africa Including Island States.” Ambio 24(78). Correa, C. 2004. “The WIPO …
Land and water - the rights interface
… a number of rights on 165 Such as the Subaks of the island of Bali in Indonesia. 166 For example, the formal … system of irrigation water allocation and rights on the island of Bali. But that is in many ways an exception as Bali is after all an island. 234 In a sense the integration of customary water …
Review of the Legal and Policy Framework for Transboundary Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa
… human factor in the context of being one component of an ecosystem.”76 In addition to the use of EIA procedures, in … system that may have detrimental effects on the ecosystem. Additionally, they have agreed to maintain and … and animal species originally occurring within natural ecosystem and habitats with no, or only limited, human …
Review and Analysis of specific Transboundary Natural Resources Management (TBNRM) Initiatives in the Southern African Region
… human factor in the context of being one component of an ecosystem.”76 In addition to the use of EIA procedures, in … system that may have detrimental effects on the ecosystem. Additionally, they have agreed to maintain and … and animal species originally occurring within natural ecosystem and habitats with no, or only limited, human …
Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability
… depends on sustainable groundwa- ter management. Ecosystem conservation also helps to sustain groundwater recharge. Groundwater management and ecosystem management work together to underpin the continuing … options is made possible by factoring in valuations for ecosystem ser- vices – both for ecosystems dependent on …
Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability
… 5.7.2. Protecting the watercourse and ecosystem .........................................104 5.7.3. … 5.8.6. Ecosystem protection … that maintains the integrity of the watercourse and its ecosystem in order to achieve sustainable utilisation of the … including the least developed countries and small island developing States, to improve their understanding and …