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  2. International waters - Wikipedia

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    The terms international waters or transboundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems , and wetlands.

  3. Global waste trade - Wikipedia

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    The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that plays a crucial role in regulating the transnational movement of hazardous wastes.

  4. Basel Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to restrict the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries. [2]

  5. Nov. 13—ALPINE — Two Texas universities are partnering with state and federal agencies to study the transboundary movements of black bears and mountain lions along the U.S.-Mexico border in ...

  6. Bamako Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Bamako Convention (in full: Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa) is a treaty of African nations prohibiting the import of any hazardous (including radioactive) waste.

  7. Geographic mobility - Wikipedia

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    Current international laws present challenges to ideal geographic mobility. Migrants must have a physical means (legal or illegal) over which to travel to a new country. [8] An increase in individual income was shown to increase access to long distance transportation and enable individuals more freedom of travel. [11]

  8. Migrant crisis - Wikipedia

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    "Transboundary crisis management" (migration is transboundary) involves co-decision, shared procedures and collective instruments in aligned with the steps below: [8] Detection: Recognition of threat. (process: emerging-timely) Sense-making: critical information for picture of the situation. (process: the collecting, analysing, sharing)

  9. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    The physical setting created by humans that reflects the identity and culture of the area. culture The accumulated habits, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people that define for them their general behavior and way of life; the total set of learned activities of a people. [2] culture hearth The area from which the culture of a group diffused.