Compensation from the international community should be provided and take account of the opportunity costs of alternative uses of the land, the costs of administering and enforcing protection, and managing the transition. Research carried out for this report indicates that the opportunity cost of forest protection in 8 countries responsible for 70 per cent of emissions from land use could be ar...

Watershed protection may be a fine idea, but how much does it cost? How does it change the bottom line for the region, the development community, landowners and residents alike? This question is increasingly being posed to those advocating better watershed protection. In this article, we review economic research on the costs and benefits of employing watershed management tools and tally the sco...

The system of radiological protection for interventions should be applied to determine an optimised cleanup strategy for environments contaminated from nuclear or radiological accidents. The decision-aiding process of justification and optimisation of radiological protection achieved by cleanup of contaminated environments is presented. In addition, a methodology is presented for deriving gener...

Legal protection of human life and health against asbestos dust-related hazards is carried out in various dimensions of the European Union law mainly focused on health protection of employees and responsibilities of employers, as well as on environmental protection. The aim of this paper is to present the Community legal issues emphasizing the protection of workers against asbestos and discuss ...

Child Protection is all activities to ensure and protect the children their rights live, grow, develop participate optimally by human dignity, from violence discrimination, including most vulnerable groups of violence. The Covid-19 pandemic provides an excellent opportunity for violent behavior against children. Local governments are obliged guarantee implementation prevention support national ...

PURPOSE This community-based research explores community perspectives on human rights barriers that women encounter in a postconflict setting of southern Sudan. METHODS An ethnographic design was used to guide data collection in five focus groups with community members and during in-depth interviews with nine key informants. A constant comparison method of data analysis was used. Atlas.ti dat...

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are used to protect species, communities, and their associated habitats, among other goals. Measuring MPA efficacy can be challenging, however, particularly when considering responses at the community level. We gathered 36 abundance and 14 biomass data sets on fish assemblages and used meta-analysis to evaluate the ability of 22 distinct community diversity metrics...

This article presents governance and institutional strategies for climate-induced community relocations. In Alaska, repeated extreme weather events coupled with climate change-induced coastal erosion impact the habitability of entire communities. Community residents and government agencies concur that relocation is the only adaptation strategy that can protect lives and infrastructure. Communit...