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Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers

… WHO World Health Organization WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO Intergovernmental Committee Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and … Park ICA includes articles from human rights law, the right to food, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the …
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Improving governance of pastoral lands

… security and supporting the progressive realization of the right to adequate food; (2) improving social and development … poorly with their traditions and livelihoods. Pastoral property rights are better understood as overlapping rights, … to its complete depletion. More recent work on common property regimes clearly shows not only how systems of …
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Governance of Ecosystem Services. Lessons Learned from Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador

… practice of deriving environmental rights, like the right to a healthy environment, from general human rights, … groups living in the forest have customary norms governing property and forest uses, which generally confer upon … therein. In addition, the Ministry of Lands and State Property is responsible for the governance of all lands, …
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Poverty and conservation: Landscapes, people and power

… to biodiversity. As examples, does clarifying who owns the property rights to each area result in long-term sustainable … answer to the question of whether “clarifying who owns the property rights to each area result in long-term sustainable … to support poverty reduction as a fundamental human right and development goal. The conservation approach …
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Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use

… and shoreline stabilization functions can reduce property damage, whilst floodplains recharge groundwater … Environmental Water Rights: An Evolving Concept of Public Property at p. 358. Mermet, L. France, in Turner and Jones … detail: this is a highly specialised subject in its own right. The aim of this book is instead to clarify the …
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Wildlife and Forest Crime Toolkit (Revised Edition)

… and other forms of crimes should be acknowledged. Most property crimes, such as robbery, theft, arson and vandalism, … because they inflict harm on people or man-made property by creating uncertainty, diminishing confidence, and … source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of or right with respect to property, knowing that such property is …
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Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

… Malia – revenue; tax on crops G l o s s a ry Maliki – property Malkiat – property; ownership (in Hunza) Mari – Slaughter of an animal … Raja. The Rajas had the authority to withdraw any kind of right or concession as well. During British rule, Rajas …
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Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… A COMMODITY II. WATER AS A SERVICE III. WATER AS A HUMAN RIGHT IV. CONCLUSION REFERENCES 327 329 331 333 339 340 … land owners to access and use the water that borders their property. rivalry: the degree to which the use of a unit of a … These may be personal harms, such as illness or injury, or property harm. The most extreme remedy is imprisonment. …
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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments

… nization Agreement on Trade‐Related Aspects of Intellectual Property  Rights   SPS   … ry Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate  … Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the  … gender.  Many  states  have  also  modified  land  and  property  …
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Community - based incentives for nature conservation

… EACH NICHE AND NEED: Direct incentives Indirect incentives Property rights Livelihood incentives Market measures Fiscal … can take a number of forms (Table 1), including: • Property rights: measures which allocate rights to own, use … nature under these circumstances, because people have no right to benefit from them. Conversely, if they have no …
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