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World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… Chapter 5: Implementing a wilderness and large land and seascapes approach under the Convention … and human wellbeing. On a planet where destruction, degradation and fragmentation of natural habitats are … (SCBD 2014), were sobering: although more of the planet’s land and sea is under conservation management than ever …
Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches
… permits held. catchment (watershed): a discrete area of land with a common drainage system; includes both the water bodies that convey the water and the land surface from which water drains into those bodies. club … pollutants that accumulate with little or very slow degradation because the capacity of the environment to …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… and top-down strategies 47 3.2.4 The role of NGOs 49 3.2.5 Land tenure factors 50 3.2.6 Choosing instruments 51 Key … protection of environmental flows 103 Key messages 104 3.2 Land Use Planning Legislation 105 Introduction 105 3.2.1 … REDD+ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation RIKS Research Institute for Knowledge Systems SA …
Women as change-makers in the governance of shared waters
… and men to have equal rights in access to and ownership of land. In order to reach gender equality, in most settings … already existing gender-unequal governance systems around land, natural resources and economic planning; l Land and … air pollution and other measures of environmental degradation are also high (UNDP, 2011). Moreover, qualitative …
UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development
… REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation UNCSD United Nations Conference on Sustainable … against during agriculture will increase yield and prevent land soil erosion, water scarcity and overall land degradation hence sustainability of agriculture. Left: …
First report on the protection of the atmosphere
… . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 A. Anthropogenic environmental degradation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … of haze (largely originating from recurrent forest and land fires in Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam), the … same Convention defines the territory of a State to be the land areas and adjacent territorial waters. The airspace …
Recycling used lead-acid batteries: health considerations (WHO)
… can, if not treated and correctly disposed of, contaminate land and water bodies. Used acid with high concentrations of lead is often dumped on land or released into waterways. Lead can enter the food … by the action of hydrogen sulfide (from bacterial degradation of organic matter) on lead. There may also be …
Document - The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: its History and Development
… - lakes, ponds, rivers and coastal fringes - and any land which is regularly or intermittently covered or … in the region. Legislation is necessary to stop their degradation and destruction. In planning for their … Nations may join the Convention. Where a country, for neutrality or other reasons, does not belong to the UN …
Payments for Ecosystem Services - Legal and Institutional Frameworks
… The traditional approach to deterring environmental degradation has been to establish a legal norm coupled with a … when numerous upstream landholders dedicate their land to intensive agricultural or cattle-ranching activities, or when forest owners convert their forest land to agricultural land. In these cases, down- stream water …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… REDD reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation SATIIM Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous … 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 …