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A critique of transboundary natural resource management in Southern Africa
… Peace and Security 9 Opportunities for Redistribution of Land and Resource Benefits 11 Donor Imperatives and the … towards in- tegration will be pursued: • Food security, land and agriculture; • Infrastructure and services; • … is unique in the sense that at least 50 percent of its land is drained by 8 international shared rivers and 54 …
Bio-Cultural Community Protocols: A community approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
… to access TK or any other intended activity on their land, such as the establishment of a REDD project or a … rather an understanding of the self as integrated with the land and embedded within an ethical relationship. TK then is … that is a result of an interaction between ILCs and the land that is rooted in cultural practices and spiritual …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… as resulting not only from drought but from land degradation linked to loss of natural vegetation … riches. According to the views of many indigenous peoples, land should not be torn open and exploited, which they … a long period of time, developed successful systems of land use and resource management. These systems – including …
Speaking a common language: The uses and performance of the IUCN system of management categories for protected areas
… to bring some order into this rapidly developing use of land and water, IUCN The World Conservation Union developed a … to regulate activities 21 Interpreting or clarifying land tenure and governance 22 Use of the IUCN categories for … as the basis for legislation or for attempting to control land use within existing protected areas. As the uses of the …
Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary
… government authorities alone to administer the law of the land is insufficient to secure the objectives, unless there … factors of the surroundings of human beings including land, soil, water, atmosphere, climate, sound, odours, tastes … Soil Pollution 44 Noise Pollution 44 Mineral Extraction 45 Land Degradation 47 Energy 49 Waste: Solid Waste, Toxic and …
Wilderness Protected Areas: Management Guidelines for IUCN categories 1b protected areas
… Needs Half vision. Its aim is to ensure that enough wild land and seascapes are protected and interconnected … institutional owners, individuals or trusts that own the land. While desirable, these are often short-term and … often identified and designated as ‘wilderness’ are on land, yet many places in the oceans and coastal waters …
Guidelines for applying protected area management categories
… spiritual value. Covering almost 12 percent of the world’s land surface, the global protected area system represents a … be a general term that can embrace a very wide range of land and water management types that incidentally have some … areas, military training areas or various forms of broad land- scape designation – will be “protected areas” as …
Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners
… Informed Consent (FPIC) before enacting projects on their land. This is in defence of their ancestral territories and … exhausted, there has been no thought to the state of the land in the aftermath of any of these interventions. Desert areas, huge holes in land, water pollution (fresh and sea water), changing the …
CITES and CBNRM. Proceedings of an international symposium on “The relevance of CBNRM to the conservation and sustainable use of CITES-listed species in exporting countries”
… across other high priority issues such as climate change, land degradation, hazardous chemicals and wastes and ozone … can detrimentally impact upon biodiversity. Changes in land use and climate, pollution, habitat degradation and … human activities such as inhibiting harvest and changes in land use. However, in developing countries, a significant …