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Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas

… Attention to these five variables is essential to the quality and effectiveness of the final management plan. As … under Category 1b, which may not fully meet a wilderness standard immediately, but have good potential to achieve … Landres, 1996; Landres, et al., 1998). These might include air and water pollution from agriculture, forest operations, …
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Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… or mangroves; • Social values: employment, safety, health, quality of life, social security, appreciation of the … natural processes with regard to soil, water, or air, where impact assessment at an appropriate level of … and sources of environmental deterioration focuses on standard agenda and symptoms of environmental deterioration …
18 Jul 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments

… United States of America and Canada on Great Lakes Water Quality, as Amended on October 16, 1983 [Toledo, 18 November … prevent or minimize such effects. [Omitted: Article 9 - Air] Chapter III - Conservation of ecological processes … a proper balance between resource development for a higher standard of living for their people and conservation and …
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An introduction to the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

… from sustainable management of land and soil, water, air and biological resources, and seeks to integrate … update the 1968 Convention and bring it to the level and standard of modern multilateral environmental agreements. It … modern solutions to maintain and improve environmental quality across Africa. The African Convention provides an …
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Framework principles on Human Rights and the environment

… including the rights to life, to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, to an adequate … information, including infor- mation about: the quality of the environment, including air and water; pollution, waste, chemicals and other …
18 Jul 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Global Land Outlook

… planet should be being harnessed, the availability of good quality land is declining. As the American author Mark Twain … “One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence … of tenure, economic development, and peace. As mentioned, standard approaches to formalizing land tenure, which focus …
18 Jul 2026 Literature

UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015

… Council, the economic toll of health costs associated with air pollution in the United States alone is US$120 billion … all stages of a product’s life, is becoming the new standard. “Rather than judging against a few basic criteria, … is a much more thorough understanding of suppliers and the quality of their products. By knowing in detail the chemistry …
18 Jul 2026 Document

International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review

… (CITES),9 and the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollu- tion10 and its protocols. Finally, in an epilogue … schemes intro- duced by many MEAs.44 Much depends on the quality and comparability of the data submitted by states, usually on the basis of uniform standard criteria laid down by expert committees under the …
18 Jul 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Technical guidelines on hazardous wastes: physico-chemical treatment (d9) and biological treatment (d8)

Air … usually be designed to collect samples of soil/foliage/air from a spread of agreed locations in the area, and to … of (in)complete combustion - depending on the nature and quality of the principal process. Absorption Brief … is unlikely, or at worst - minimal. A lack of globally standard terminology in this area results in several …
18 Jul 2026 Document

Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… 111 I The Step-wise Approach as a Benchmark or Standard ................................................... … two main rationales: first, awareness that environmental quality is a prerequisite to ensuring the enjoyment of a host … environment. See Charan Lal Sahu v. Union of India, AIR 1990 SC 1480 (1991). In a subsequent case, the Court …
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