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Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual
… back ‘upstream’ and finds an anthropocentric reason – land use, pollution, abstraction, livestock, introduced … systems � Dams � Water management changes � Habitat loss/degradation � Pollution � Highly pathogenic avian influenza, … of infection between livestock, people and wildlife. Local land use changes are also expected to exert temperature and …
Legislating for property rights in fisheries
… attention on the relationship between environmental degradation and the absence of rules governing the use of … interest in an easement falls short of a true estate in land. 20 The range of protection specifically includes … under the 1996 Act therefore operates similarly to a land title register, and a registration document relating to …
Handbook of working procedures and policy guidance for the Chemical Review Committee
… 4.1.1. Soil · Field dissipation · Aerobic and anaerobic degradation · Rate of degradation · Adsorption/desorption · … and use of appropriate equipment, e.g. specific land machines and personal protective equipment (PPE). No … (d) Patterns of disposal: e.g., disposal of chemical on land leads to ground water contamination. 12. Description of …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… Lee Ellen Carter How protection took the beauty from the land: conflicting values and meanings of Lake Mburo National … other ways. We explained too that, while the Protected Land- scapes Task Force had begun to document these values1, … Photo: Louise Jasper. 98 have resulted in widespread degradation of natural habi- tats surrounding the sacred …
Special Issue on Wildlife Trafficking II
… “Harm” includes “significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by … of the species are proven. See Palila v. Hawaii Dep’t of Land & Natural Res., 649 F. Supp. 1070, 1075 (D. Haw. 1986), … agency, such as FWS, EPA, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Natural …
Negotiate: reaching agreement over water
… known as a ‘fugitive’ resource: that means that – unlike land, food, trees, minerals or even people – when left alone … Cape York The MSP of CYPLUS (Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy) was born in the 1990s after 20 years of … activity and culture that do not lead to environmental degradation, especially avoiding the long-term depletion of …
The status of natural resources on the high-seas
… mound may be of use in food processing, detergents and the degradation of toxic wastes(23). Bacterial bioremediation of … unproductive areas of the tropical ocean, distant from land, and greatest abundances are found in the coastal … separated. Deep-sea trenches are also often close to land where the wastes are created, such as mining tailings. …