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Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines

… all stakeholders concerned with the protection of lives, property and resources from the effect of unwanted, damaging … use objectives, together with the safeguarding of life, property, and resources through the prevention, detection, … (art. 48(2)), while forest protection within so-called "right forests" (i.e. forests subject to private ownership …
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Values of protected landscapes and seascapes: protected landscapes and agrobiodiversity values

… except for the water and the subsoil which are public property. Most of the forestry properties are privately … the same year in the Can Jordà fruit orchard, a public property managed directly by the Park, surrounded by a wooded … of indigenous Quechua communities, and recognises their right to control the use of their knowledge based on their …
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Responsible governance of tenure and the law - A guide for lawyers and other legal service providers

… promotes and supports the progressive realization of the right to adequate food, which is one of the objectives of the … are legitimate tenure rights . . . . 21 2.3.4 Common property rights, use rights, tenancy rights, and overlapping … restricted areas and customary rights in Fiji 2.3.4 Common property rights, use rights, tenancy rights, and overlapping …
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Sharing Information with Confidence. “The Biodiversity Commons”: past experience, current trends and potential future directions

… future directions “The field of knowledge is the common property of all mankind” Thomas Jefferson, 1807 2 3 Executive … authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited12.” In the last … Important issues in relation to Intellectual Property Rights were identified as proper attribution or …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… and protection of ground- water and who has the right to use it. They should create a stable framework … use groundwater have often, historically, been attached to property rights for land, with landowners entitled to extract groundwater from under their property. The trouble is that a neigh- bouring landowner, …
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Economic measures for biodiversity planning: An annotated bibliography of methods, experiences and cases

… goods, the potential for satiation, and variations in property rights are factors to address in assessing individual values. Differences in political and property rights systems, and unique demographic structures … #15. Barbier, E., & Conroy, C. (1989). 'Setting the right economic environment for sub-Saharan Africa', …
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Text of the Standard Material Transfer Agreement

… this Agreement. 4.4 The third party beneficiary has the right to request the appropriate information as required in … Food and Agriculture protected by intellectual and other property rights shall be consistent with relevant … uses. 6.2 The Recipient shall not claim any intellectual property or other rights that limit the facilitated access to …
25 May 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.6 Choosing the right method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … users of the resources of a river. If there are no common-property subsistence users, modules 2 and 4 can be omitted. … and 2. The predicted impact of each scenario on the common-property subsistence users is also described. Module 4. …
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Drafting legislation for sustainable soils: A guide

… authorized without prior written permission from the copy- right holder provided the source is fully acknowledged. … the form of communal tenure, communal rights or individual property and use rights; Common property rights regimes include: access, communal property, …
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Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… communities and the individuals comprising them have the right to participate in decision-making processes with … level, in addition to standard legislation protecting property rights for everyone, several nation’s constitutions, legislation or customary law recognizes property rights which indigenous or other local communities …
25 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance