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Oliver C. Ruppel, Harald Ginzky - African Soil Protection Law

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Oliver C. Ruppel (ed.), Harald Ginzky (ed.)

African Soil Protection Law

Series: Recht und Verfassung in Afrika - Law and Constitution in Africa

Volume 41 2021

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Harald Ginzky, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Oliver C. Ruppel, Pamela Towela Sambo, Christopher F. Tamasang Mapping out options for model legislation for sustainable soil management in Africa S. 379-452

„… climate mitigation and adaptation could also be used for soil-related projects …” „… be beneficial, but would need to be carefully drafted. 3.4.3 Soil-related policies Comprehensive …” „… the regulation of pesticides. Furthermore, a purely soil-oriented regulation of activities which …”

Oliver C. Ruppel, Katharina Ruppel-Schlichting, Larissa-Jane Houston, Yvonne Nana Afua Soil protection across Africa: Taking a glimpse at Namibia, Uganda, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa S. 453-484

„… contribute to reviewing and updating the SoiLEX database containing all soil-related legal instruments …” „… also briefly cover the most soil-relevant international law instruments. The chapter is, however …” „… Act;38 and the Cattle Grazing Act.39 Uganda has various soil-relevant policies in place, such as the …”

Oliver C. Ruppel Soil protection and the right to food: Sustainability implications for global climate governance and world agricultural trade? S. 499-528

„… interactions with other sectors and trade.24 In the soil-land-climate interface, effective policy responses …” „… 499 Soil protection and the right to food: Sustainability implications for global climate …” „… soils. For those communities that rely heavily on land as their main source, especially the rural poor …”

Christopher F. Tamasang, Cyril Effala, Ivo T. Tassah Country report for Cameroon S. 53-176

„… grow. Furthermore, mining disturbance alters the flow of nitrogen through a stable soil-plant-microbial …” „… densities are the fertile volcanic soil in the Coastal Lowland and the Western Highlands, the gentle …” „… report Cameroon 61 2 Soil degradation 2.1 The state of the environment The environment is the …”

Harald Ginzky, Oliver C. Ruppel Executive summary S. 31-52

„… soil/land management are interlinked. Sustainable soil management could be both a mitigation and adaptation …” „… soil–science discourse must continue to expand beyond its traditional identification with agriculture as it …” „… advice from soil scientists. Second, local chiefs must be seen as part of the whole soil-related …”

Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Irene Kamunge, James Kipkerebulit Yatich Country report for Kenya S. 177-294

„… different soils types. The protection of these soils therefore requires soil-specific protection measures …” „… introducing county soil-specific legislation. In addition, it is expected that with devolved governance will …” „… ubiquity in soil-related activities. 3.4.4 Pastoralists Pastoralists in arid and semi-arid lands …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-30

„… Recommendations 285 6.3 Elements of a soil-specific legislation 286 Country report for Zambia 295 Pamela Towela …” „… framework legislation and political buy-in 387 3.4.2 Constitutional provisions 389 3.4.3 Soil-related …” „… Recht und Verfassung in Afrika | 41 Law and Constitution in Africa African Soil Protection Law …”

Pamela Towela Sambo, Andrew Nkunika, Nelly Zulu Country report for Zambia S. 295-378

„… important for understanding the enforcement of soil-relevant laws and policies in Zambia. The Constitution …” „… soil-relevant legislative provisions analysed in this report are subject to enforcement by the Zambia …” „… and soil-relevant governance systems include gaps in policy frameworks and institutions, and poor …”

Oliver C. Ruppel, Larissa-Jane Houston The Pan-African Parliament of the African Union: Composition, mandate and partnerships, and its quest for sustainable development S. 485-498

„… neutrality (SDG target 15.3) and sustainable soil management on the continent (Article I of the MoU …” „… sustainable soil management, which is essential to achieving land degradation neutrality, which needs to be …” „… aims at developing model legislation for sustainable soil management in Africa. 6 Quest for …”

doi.org/10.5771/9783748908043

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Environmental Science

2013

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Part IV. SOIL QUALITY S. 579-626

„… , and Pollution ControlEvery soil-atom seems to yield enthusiastic obedience to law—bowlders [sic] and …” „… reduced to nothing more than a handful of soil.How did this happen? What is “bare rock succession?”12_430 …” „… soil-denuded area return to something approaching its original state or a bare rock be converted to soil. But …”

Glossary S. 663-698

„… water.clay content: The amount of clay (fine-grained sedimentary rock) in a soil.Clean Air Act: The name …” „… available to biodegrade contami-nants in the soil.microbial degradation: The natural process whereby certain …” „… , or the soil.mitochondria (pl.) (sing: mitochondrion): Microscopic bodies found in the cells of almost …”

Part I. THE BASICS S. 1-358

„… supports all forms of Earth’s life. The geosphere consists of the solid Earth, including soil—the …” „… , and then to death” (Leopold, 1948, 132).This text examines four specific areas: air, water, soil, and …” „… biota. However, our principal focus is on the first three—because without air, water, or soil, no biota …”

Preface

„… have had or can have a profound impact on the environment and air, water, and soil.Special …” „… 284Formation of Soil 284Soil Enhancement and Rebuilding 287Soil Characteristics 287Soil Profile 288 …” „… Functions of Soils 289Groundwater Hydrology 291Chapter Summary 293Plausible Answers to Response Scenario 6.1 …”

Index S. 699-708

„… saline soils, 159saline water, 491salinity, 129salmon, 30–34salt, 109, 125sampling, 21, 297–309; for soil …” „… slope winds, 432sludge, 134smog, 320Snow, J., 187–193soaps, 133soil, 284–291; characteristics of …” „… , 287–289, 581–589; enhancement of, 287; formation of, 284–287; function of, 289soil chemistry, 154–172soil …”

Part III. WATER QUALITY S. 471-578

„… material is not normally found in groundwater because of the filtering effect of the soil.Suspended …” „… (primarily from chemical compounds dissolved from rocks and soil).Highly alkaline water has no known …” „… , keeps the soil from splashing away in erosion as the water returns to the depths of the Earth, or runs …”

Part V. SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTES S. 627-662

„… such as wood, steel, plaster, concrete, and soil.MUNICIPAL SERVICES SOURCES OF MSWMunicipal services …” „… ), in which we live with its air, soil, and water, which are all critical to our very exis-tence—the …” „… soil. Smothering them with dirt and sand appears to be the most cost-effective and efficient way to …”

Part II. AIR QUALITY S. 359-470

„… , restless, and far different from water and soil media. No matter how it is described, the atmosphere is …” „… soil or snow.Table 9.2. Mortality Occurring During Air Pollution EventsLocation YearDeaths Reported as …” „… in the loose packing and random crannies of the soil, only to float out again when the pressure is …”

doi.org/10.5771/9780810886117

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KO Volume 38 (2011) Issue 5 ISSN Online: 2942-3309

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Klaus Solberg Søilen, Philip Baback Alipour Semantics, Classifications and Evidence in a Model for Global Catastrophic Risks S. 438-454

„… Knowl. Org. 38(2011)No.5 K. S. Søilen and P. B. Alipour. Semantics, Classifications and Evidence …” „… for Global Catastrophic Risks Klaus Solberg Søilen* and Philip Baback Alipour** *Department of …” „… -371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden, Klaus Solberg Søilen is an Assistant …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis

„… Indexing to Query Reformulation......425 Klaus Solberg Søilen and Philip Baback Alipour. Semantics …”

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Andri Gerber, Regula Iseli, Stefan Kurath, Urs Primas - The Morphology of Urban Landscapes

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The Morphology of Urban Landscapes

2021

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A seed on Viennese soil S. 185-196

„… resulting lack of profound knowledge is all Erich RaithA seed on Viennese soilPART II STORIA OPERANTE 186too …” „… research for its contamination with national socialist blood-and-soil ideology. Unfortunately, the …” „… Alfons DworskyA seed on Viennese soil 187took place without the authorities first making an effort to …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-6

„… ........................................................................................................ 175Erich RaithA seed on Viennese soil …”

The emergence of second form S. 77-86

„… highly structured surface due to such things as topography and variations in water and soil, which makes …”

doi.org/10.5771/9783496030607