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ECO LEX

ECO LEX. droit de l'environnement. O. ECO LEX. derecho ambiental. E. ECO LEX. ECO LEX. environmental law. L. E. X. ECO LEX. C. ECO LEX. ECO LEX. the gateway to environmental law. ECO LEX. 2. 3. 4. 1. ECO LEX. What does it offer ?. What is ECOLEX ?. Why ECOLEX ?.

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ECO LEX

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  1. ECOLEX droit de l'environnement O ECOLEX derecho ambiental E ECOLEX ECOLEX environmental law L E X ECOLEX C ECOLEX ECOLEX the gateway to environmental law ECOLEX

  2. 2 3 4 1 ECOLEX What does it offer ? What is ECOLEX ? Why ECOLEX ? ECOLEX who’s who the project is the result of a partnership between FAO, IUCN and UNEP ECOLEX is the result of a need: to enable users to access information on environmental and natural resources law from one single source it is true that nowadays there are thousands of Web sites reporting on legal tools at the national and international level however, until ECOLEX went online, policy makers, lawyers, NGOs and researchers could not easily access the legal basis for sustainable development from a single source online access it addresses all areas of law (treaties, national legislation, court decisions and law/policy literature) it covers all major natural resources and environmental fields simple search [word-based search] advanced search an ECOLEX overview: questions and answers a small number of facts that make a big difference!

  3. 1 TREATIES IUCN’s input on Multilateral legal instruments with full texts NATIONAL LEGISLATION FAO’s input with over 90.000 entries for national legislation 1 1 2 2 AGRICULTURE ENERGY SEA WATER FOOD ENVIRONMENT AIR& ATMOSPHERE FORESTRY LIVESTOCK WILD SPECIES & ECOSYSTEMS FISHERIES LAND& SOIL MINERAL RESOURCES CULTIVATEDPLANTS WASTE& HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES 4 4 3 3 LITERATURE IUCN’s Monographs, articles, literature database with 30.000 and ever increasing references COURT DECISIONS UNEP’s court decision database CROSS DATABASE SEARCH (common option for simple or advanced search) 1. ECOLEX subject areas Ecolex covers all major environmental and natural resources fields. To be more user friendly the contents are divided in 15 subject areas: 1 simple search 4 3 2 0 3. The combination of these is what we call the cross database search 2. ECOLEX contains information addressing all areas of law, organized into 4 databases 4. ECOLEX can be browsed in two main ways: 2 advanced search the architecture of the system conceptual structure and internal levels of ECOLEX

  4. ECOLEX home page: salient figures select to restrict search within one or more databases Google-type search also within full texts Google-type search Expert search also within full texts

  5. ECOLEX partner’s contacts: Haddy Guisse haddy.guisse@unep.org Barbara Moauro barbara.moauro@fao.org Anni Lukács anni.lukács@iucn.org visitwww.ecolex.org ECOLEX thank youenjoy your search! Knowledge Management in the context of environment related multilateral agreements and conventions; 22-24 September 2009 Geneva, Switzerland

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