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Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

… them to overcome the conflicts that lead to further degradation of the natural resource base. The results of this … 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 …
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Promoting responsible investment in agriculture and food systems - Guide to assess national regulatory frameworks affecting larger-scale private investments

… ntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and  … marginalize  smallholders  or  lead  to  environmental  degradation  and water  scarcity,  thereby  reversing  … t of foreign direct investment (FDI) involving transfers of land. Yet domestic investors,  …
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Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences

… caused by ocean warming and expansion and the melting of land-based glaciers, insufficient attention has been given to … on climate change has focused on specific themes such as land surface temperatures, melting ice caps in Greenland and … of ground heat with implications for permafrost degradation (Lawrence et al., 2008). The exceptional nature …
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Tools for measuring, modelling, and valuing ecosystem services : Guidance for Key Biodiversity Areas, natural World Heritage sites, and protected areas

… REDD+ Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation SDGs Sustainable Development Goals SNAPP Science … of interest and choose from pre-selected scenarios (e.g. land use and climate change) or design their own. SolVES is … areas are increasingly lost or degraded (e.g. through land conversion for agriculture). Being able to understand …
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Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices

… protected areas in southern Australia 88 6.9 Restoring the land and honouring the history of Lyell Island in Gwaii … challenges of the 21st century. Habitat loss and degradation, overexploitation of resources, climate change, … degraded. Humanity directly affects 83 per cent of the land surface (Sanderson et al., 2002) and 100 per cent of the …
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Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers

… from The Christensen Fund, LTS International, The Sacred Land Film Project, UNESCO and WWF International. Published … the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, are asked to respect … disrespectful tourism, poverty and population dynamics, degradation of neighbouring environ- ments, reduction of the …
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Biodiversity, the next challenge for financial institutions ? A scoping study to assess exposure of financial institutions to biodiversity business risks and identifying options for business opportunities

… “nature, forests and landscapes”. 5) Conservation ­land ­as ­a ­result ­of ­default ­or ­debt ­work-out. Should … acquire a significant amount of biodiversity- sensitive land as a result of default or debt work-out situations, … create and sustain biodiversity markets, and how trends in degradation and loss of biodiversity will emerge in the …
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Explanatory guide to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

… changing agricul- tural practices and loss of agricultural land. The use of genetically modified organisms in cen- tres … who is engaged in the conservation of genetic resources of land races and wild relatives of economic plants and their … or sell seeds for reproduction and replanting in their own land. Section 72 allows for the establishment of inventories …
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IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2 - A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites

… Nepal Chitwan National Park 29 Mali Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) 30 Costa Rica Cocos Island National Park … Benin / Burkina Faso / Niger 29 Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali 32 p Comoé National Park, Côte …
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Water Management and Stewardship

… 76 4.7 Land … taking stock of corporate water behaviour Discussion Paper land management. For water stewardship to work, private … et al (2013) presents replenishment in terms of ‘water neutrality’ for restoration of a ‘sustainable water balance’. … corporate water behaviour Discussion Paper resources and degradation of water ecosystems’. For water stewardship to …
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