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Evaluating effectiveness : A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas
… The integrity of a reserve, or its insulation from adverse outside influences, depends not only on size and … management. Rather than seeking to prove ‘cause and ‘effect’ relationships, the analysis focuses on the … for conservation even though they might be subject to adverse weather events, fragmentation, pressures from …
Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches
… water. self-executing treaty: a treaty that comes into effect immediately upon ratification and does not require … in different parts of the world and caused significant adverse impacts on human health and the environment (WCD, … harm to human health and the environment. Unforeseen adverse impacts of past water development efforts and ongoing …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… the enhanced heating since the 1970s due to the greenhouse effect and other human activities has been absorbed by the … on-set changes, thus exacerbating negative impacts and the adverse consequences for humans. That is to say, moving above … a reduced range of optimal temperatures, compounding adverse effects of ocean warming, and energy costs to …
Maritime Traffic Effects on Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea. Volume 1 - Review of Impacts, Priority Areas and Mitigation Measures
… Continuous exposure to low-frequency sound is also an effect of distant shipping noise, multiple distant seismic … In this case, the question is not whether there are adverse reactions to the noise itself, but why whales may … of communication caused by shipping noise may have an adverse impact on endangered whale species if the noise …
Initiating effective transboundary conservation - A practitioner’s guideline based on the experience from the Dinaric Arc
… Pieniny Mountains. The provisions of this Annex came into effect in July 1932 in both countries, following a ceremony … staff across boundaries of states could have a positive effect in terms of reaching mutual understanding and … cooperation mitigate any potential damages or adverse impacts of the past military and/or ethnic conflict …
Maritime Traffic Effects on Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea. Volume 2 - Legal Mechanisms to Address Maritime Impacts on Mediterranean Biodiversity
… V, but the Special Area requirements have not yet taken effect because of the lack of adequate reception facilities … activities which have or are likely to have a significant adverse impact on the conservation and sustainable use of … provisions of Part V of UNCLOS, a coastal state must tie adverse effects from ship- source pollution to its EEZ …
Technical guidelines on hazardous wastes: physico-chemical treatment (d9) and biological treatment (d8)
… even at very low concentrations, can have a seriously adverse effect on process efficiency, so successful application of D8 … batches of waste. High levels of manpower required. Adverse Factors Labour intensive. In the hazardous waste …
An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
… of the Parties to the Protocol after it enters into effect. The main section of the Guide provides a “commentary” … of any LMO resulting from biotechnology that may have an adverse effect on the con- servation and sustainable use of … to LMOs resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effect on the conservation and sustainable use of …
An explanatory guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
… of the Parties to the Protocol after it enters into effect. The main section of the Guide provides a “commentary” … of any LMO resulting from biotechnology that may have an adverse effect on the con- servation and sustainable use of … to LMOs resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effect on the conservation and sustainable use of …