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… looking at specific transboundary water basins, while land and soil pollution is indirectly addressed by the United … Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA). However, global and regional … goods and services, such as those from oceans, rivers, land, wetlands, and others result in the a An ongoing …

… 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 … discharge. Glossary xiv riparian rights: the rights of land owners to access and use the water that borders their …

… our planet by a greater population, by climate change, and land degradation. �e work of the Parties will need to … degrees Celsius warming and combating desertification and land degradation. However, reaching these joint objectives … changes in society, including much more efficient use of land, water, energy and materials, rethinking our consumption …

… traditional peoples to the use of certain resources and land, to knowledge, technology, power, decision making, … and which secure their entitlements to self determination, land, natural resources, information, education, health … successfully cope with future climate change than others. Land tenure and access rights Traditional or ancestral land …

… others on species or habitat protection; most owning land, but often leasing it too, or advising on land management. We have engaged with these and other … especially state bodies and NGOs who own a great deal of land, has increased the level of interest about this …

… vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for … promotes the sustainable use of ecosystems through better land use planning and development planning, however it … values”. Globally protected areas cover less than 12% of land and just over 1% of oceans. However, they provide …

… future with dignity and respect, and to their traditional land and livelihood. They spoke truth to power, and were … groups who strive to defend and promote environmental and land rights. My observations and recommendations aim to … are directly or indirectly related to the environment and land use. Such future and those goals are doomed to failure …

… 8 3 Labour, land and other capital … in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares.1 Many are poor and food … Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the …

… 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 system Today roughly a tenth of the world’s land surface is under some form of protected area. Over the …

… Settled Areas to be eaten by the ibex Kanal – measure of land equivalent to 605 square yards Kasabgar – artisan Khabo … Nullah – stream, and the surrounding pasture and forest land Numberdar/Lumbardar/Trangpa – village headman Opoom – a … is further constrained by the scarcity of arable land and a short growing season. The mountainous terrain …