Governance

Inappropriate water management practices in the Komadugu Yobe Basin, upstream of Lake Chad in northern Nigeria, changed the seasonal river flow and caused widespread environmental degradation. Coupled with this was fragmented regulation and conflicting responsibilities among institutions, a lack of coordination for hydro-agricultural developments, inequitable access to water resources and growing tensions and risk of conflicts among water users.

This publication attempts to connect the governance policies in place, those policy options that are proposed, and gap analysis studies of governance with a host of relevant documents related to key topics in the Arctic. The document includes a governance index, organized by country, and a keyword index, including names of conventions and agreements.

Le Guide juridique expose les principales règles qui régissent la gestion des forêts au Burkina Faso avec pour ambition de vulgariser ces textes auprès des conseils municipaux pour leur permettre de mieux s’en approprier, de connaître leurs droits mais aussi leurs devoirs en matière de gestion des forêts.

This study looks at governance of ecosystem services. It describes the existing legal and institutional frameworks, including the specific legal and policy instruments used to directly or indirectly govern the provision of ecosystem services, as they are found in four countries: Cameroon, China, Costa Rica and Ecuador.

Esta obra presenta la situación de la gobernanza ambiental e indígena en Bolivia y Perú, a fin de ampliar la discusión sobre la gobernanza, sus principios normativos y políticas de aplicación, a través de ejemplos claros y puntuales. La gobernanza ambiental está relacionada con la protección de las áreas protegidas, la conservación de los recursos naturales y en el debate socioambiental y político sobre el cambio climático.

This book seeks to reposition the law as a tool for implementing higher good, or, in other words, for providing justice by seeking to ensure individuals have access to the services that ecosystems naturally provide, and guaranteeing the right to water for human well-being. The goal of the publication is to contribute to a better understanding of the legal and institutional arrangements necessary for promoting good governance of transboundary waters between two or more States.