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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… a variety of public and private stake- holders in resource management, to decentralization of government institutions … Rio: Legal Trends in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (FAO, 2003). The purpose of this short paper is to … to, inter alia, the use and exploitation of land and the management of natural resources and conflict resolution, …
Marine Pollution and Ballast Waters
… Sea Areas 2. International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments Objective and scope Management of Ballast Water Further guidance for uniform … 2. International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments The water …
Strengthening the World Heritage Convention
… establishing and demonstrating global standards for management of protected areas and act as “flagships” in terms … Convention, especially with respect to the protection and management of listed sites as the key priority for the … industries, the impacts of conflict, the loss of management capacity and a range of other threats and …
Conservation of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway and its threatened waterbirds
… specific research and cooperation for the restoration and management of these habitats; NOTING that the rate of loss of … of cooperation between countries for achieving effective management, to develop international and national action … them; c. strengthening protected area legislation and management, including increasing flexibility regarding the …
Brexit: environment and climate change
… the Water Framework Directive, river basin and flood risk management, drinking water, bathing water) • Environmental … on the importance of policy stability to the effective management of the UK environment, Leah Davis, Acting Director … Howell (ECB0003) 36 Department for Exiting the EU, ‘Senior Management Team’, January 2017: https://www.gov.uk/ …
Protected areas and other areas important for biodiversity in relation to environmentally damaging industrial activities and infrastructure development
… 2013); RECOGNISING that there are six IUCN Protected Areas Management Categories and four Governance Types1 and these … with IUCN’s Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories; RECOGNISING that the concept of areas … N. (Editor) (2008). Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. x + 86pp. …
Introduction to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
… Reliance on Human Management … crops can be summarized as follows: • Reliance on human management; and • Countries’ interdependence on agricultural crops. Reliance on Human Management Unlike most other genetic resources, agri- … breeders over many generations. l Without continued human management most agricultural crops would revert to the wild …
Transboundary River Basins: Status and Trends (Summary for Policy Makers)
… of 286 basins. Improved wastewater treatment and nutrient management in agriculture are needed in most basins. 3. The … them to reflect modern principles of transboundary water management, such as the obligation not to cause significant … group have similar risk profiles. Opportunities for common management strategies within each of these groups should be …
Primary microplastics in the oceans: a global evaluation of sources
… in the ocean beyond the traditional focus on waste management Shaping these solutions will require approaches … of these secondary sources and on waste reduction and management (EUNOMIA, 2016a; Jambeck et al , 2015; McKinsey & … debate generally does not look outside of the waste management arena The discovery of high levels of microplastic …