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Maritime Traffic Effects on Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea. Volume 1 - Review of Impacts, Priority Areas and Mitigation Measures

… leisure craft and naval vessels that also discharge oily waste, adding more tons of oil into the sea. Recently, the … wastes 4.1. Oil tankers Estimates show that the amount of waste fuel oil on tankers docking in European ports could … metals, pesticides and even solid rubbish. Where urban effluent is treated in a conventional sewage treatment plant, …
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Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador

… Control Law, 2004 22 Gives government authority to control waste pollution in nature reserves, and forbids construction of industrial or household waste collection and disposal sites in nature reserves; no … is granted to enterprises that use emissions, effluents, waste residues, and other wastes as their main raw materials …
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Montenegro and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… underground water sources on the bottom of the lake. The effluent River Bojana is the only major river flowing to the … mitigation of coastal erosion and absorbing/degrading of waste water and waste). Box 1.: Economic value of PAs in Montenegro: the key …
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Biodiversity for Business: A guide to using knowledge products delivered through IUCN

… discharges of water and runoff Effluents and Waste Protected Planet; The IUCN Red List of Threatened …
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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field

… regular floods, siltation of the river and presence of waste oil and plastic litter in the Nadi River. Mainstreaming … communities in the identification of water and sanitation, waste management and development priorities. Discussions are … then be left with the expensive task of remediating the waste disposal systems on waterfront lots and restoring them. …
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The status of natural resources on the high-seas

… potential – a potential threat • Interest in use as waste disposal sites – a potential threat • Significant … limited Limited Limited / moderate (nil, pollution) Waste disposal Deep-sea reefs High for geology and biology … O.A. (1972). Effects of surface-discharged deep sea mining effluent. MTS Journal 6(4): 40-45 22) Wiltshire, J.C. (1995). …
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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment

… N H U M A N R I G H T S A N D T H E E N V I R O N M E N T waste, transport, and financing. For example, under air and … of rhino in a national park, the unlawful disposal of waste, illegal cutting and collection of wood and driving in … the general public about the problem of toxic industrial waste and to pressure the government to institute policies to …
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Development of an analytical tool to assess national biosecurity legislation

… duplication of efforts, misuse of human resources and waste of meagre financial resources allocated to the sectors. … controlling the volume, types, constituents and effects of waste discharges; prescription of standards and guidelines … establishments to ensure maintenance of prescribed effluent standards and standards of hygiene generally. An …
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Freshwater Law and Governance: Global and Regional Perspectives for Sustainability

… and regional perspectives for sustainabil ity vii 5.4.2. Waste management for inland navigation … Convention on the Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste, Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention on … or basin in which they operate, e.g. through their water effluent or air emissions. Beyond the physical impact on the …
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Mr. John Knox, Policy Brief_Universal Human Rights Group

… 2012 alone. Prajob nao-opas exposed the dumping of toxic waste in Chacheongsao province, east of Bangkok, thailand, by … was apparently caused by overflows of organic matter from effluent ponds attached to a palm oil mill owned by …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance