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Technical guidelines: Technical guidelines on transboundary movements of electrical and electronic waste and used electrical and electronic equipment, in particular regarding the distinction between waste and non-waste under the Basel Convention
… will protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects that may result from such wastes (Article 2, …
Governing natural resources and the processes and institutions that affect them : North-West Frontier Province. Legislation.
… come into force at once, and shall be deemed to have taken effect on the fourteenth day of August, 2001. 2. … the various available options for the minimization of the adverse impact of such operations and policies, if any, and … regard to the observation, reservation, qualification or adverse remarks contained in the auditor’s report to the …
Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters
… of women’s roles as users and sharers of the resource in effect feeds a vicious circle in which their potential … demonstrate that legal reform on its own is not enough to effect change (Lee, 2014): proactive and practical … alpaca and vicugna. Climate change is having economically adverse effects on the local population in Andamarca. Water …
Integrating Economics into Resource and Environmental Management Some Recent Experiences in the Pacific
… to discern since they exist as averted costs. The combined effect is that it can be difficult to persuade hard stretched … to reduce their current risks, let alone adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. Climate change adaptation … production in Fiji is more than probable. Only under very adverse conditions would the production not be profitable. It …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… Project and makes points about the continuing use of IEM, effect of LD on society, and the benefits of a sound legal … of EIA should be addressed not only to evaluate adverse environmental impacts, but also to take substantive … which, under the EIA process, may have a potentially adverse impact on the environment. NGOs and volunteers have …
Principles of phytosanitary legislation
… ideology. But these pressures failed to have any major effect because no global effort has ever been made to tighten … might, if they entered Australia, have a devastating effect on the salmon in southern waters. In the matter of … consequences; or the evaluation of the potential for adverse effects on human or animal health arising from the …
Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador
… on Public Participation in Environmental Protection (in effect 1 January 2006) that recognizes a public right to … eco-service programs do not show an ideal cost-benefit effect, but are impres-• sive in integral cost benefit. … was based on command and control and these laws remain in effect. The protected areas legislation, in particular, is …
International environmental governance: An international regime for protected areas
… to reflect customary law and therefore had binding effect prior to UNCLOS coming into force as a global treaty … that will need to be addressed if states are to give effect to the identified principles of international … Record since 1990, which lists Ramsar sites where an adverse change in ecological character has occurred including …
Intellectual property rights in plant varieties: International legal regimes and policy options for national governments
… to be "self-executing" or capable of being given "direct effect" in domestic law such that courts and administrative … organizations, have expressed concern about the adverse effects of IPRs and have sought to harness … in section 1.3.1 above, countries generally give domestic effect to the UPOV Act to which they are a party in one of …