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Large-scale marine protected areas - Guidelines for design and management

… under sustainable natural resource management (where low-level non-industrial natural resource use compatible with … the tropics, and especially in the case of apex predators, sea turtles, seabirds, corals, giant clams and coconut crabs … In addition, climate change, inclusive of sea temperature rise and ocean acidification, is altering the Earth’s marine …
18 Jun 2026 Literature

Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… naturally through springs, rivers and wetlands or into the sea. Intensive abstraction of groundwater, usually by … Water institutions at national, basin, aquifer or local level, or at international level for transbound- ary … well is drilled in an aquifer under pres- sure, water will rise above the top of the aquifer and sometime even above the …
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RAMSAR Handbook 3: Laws and institutions

… John Ntambirweki (Uganda), and Jens Enemark (Wadden Sea Countries). The authors prepared their respective case … cover laws and institutions not only at the national level, but also at the subnational and supra-national (i.e., … regions and small island States to predicted sea level rise; the importance of coastal wetlands for protection …
18 Jun 2026 Document

Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project

… Claims and cases reviewed 127 9.5.2 Analysis: Extent and level of claims 128 9.5.2.1 Extent 128 9.5.2.2 Level 128 … marine sector, through the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the UN Open-ended Informal Consulta- tive … of seamounts Seamounts are submarine mountains that rise steeply from the surrounding abyssal plains but do not …
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International Environmental law-making and Diplomacy Review

… by the COP President, and subsequently within the high-level segment of the COP plenary. The contact groups dealt … Conf. 14.3 (2007). 33 Peter H. Sand, ‘Enforcing CITES: The Rise and Fall of Trade Sanctions’, 22 Review of European, … Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution51 was the forerunner of a string of …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

In the front line : Shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs

… play an important role in shore protection under normal sea conditions and during hurricanes and tropical storms. At … that wave energy has recently doubled as a result of sea level rise, loss of corals from reef flats due to bleaching, and …
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Global Re-introduction Perspectives: 2011 - More case studies from around the globe

… 15 North Sea houting in the River Rhine system in Europe … ini a ves. We hope these will provide readers at a global level on the ini a ves being carried out within our region. … MSL) are threatened by climate change induced sea level rise, therefore there is a need to move insects to more …
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An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… Trade UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development … guide on how to implement the Protocol at the national level. Rather it attempts to provide an accessible … nological processes not yet identified but which may give rise to novel combinations of genetic material through the …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

An explanatory guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… Trade UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development … guide on how to implement the Protocol at the national level. Rather it attempts to provide an accessible … nological processes not yet identified but which may give rise to novel combinations of genetic material through the …
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Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

… sustainable development. Increases in global temperature, sea level rise, ocean acidification and other climate change impacts …
18 Jun 2026 Literature