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3 Summary It has increasingly become accepted in recent years that ecosystems can only be managed sensibly if they are perceived and protected in their entirety. To this end, 12 principles for an ecosystem approach and 5 points of operational guidance have been elaborated in the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity. They have not been applied to a marine ecosystem as yet. The " E...

Outstanding among the global environmental issues that have emerged since the 1980s is the issue of the rapid loss of biodiversity. This is an issue that is urgent from the ecological standpoint and strategic from the economic, political and social standpoints. With the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 1992) a new global framework was introduced, together with a new international code o...

the aim of this article is. evaluation of traditional knowledge (tk) protection possibility and ways under national legal system potentials in this direction, case laws,- which conventions and inter national treaties are very important party of them - provide proper capacity to protect this knowledge. among them convention of biological diversity (cbd) and convention on desertification have nec...