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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Compliance and enforcement"”.
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Administrative penalties as a tool for resolving South Africa’s environmental compliance and enforcement woes
… despite the constitutional environmental right, and multiple environmental protection laws. A predominant reason for this is that the criminal sanction is the default method of environmental enforcement. Even if prosecutors succeed in proving guilt beyond reasonable doubt, the fines imposed are …
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Informational Environmental Regulation in Practice
… prospects of sustainable economic development and the pursuit of a life of better quality. An informational approach to environmental regulation, a policy innovation implemented after direct regulation and economic incentive mechanism, has exhibited its positive results on pollution reduction. …
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Advancing the Implementation of CLAS Standards to Support Health of South Asian Americans
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial and ethnic group in the United States, projected to reach nearly 34 million by 2050. A subset of Asian Americans, South Asians, face tremendous cultural, socioeconomic, linguistic, and structural obstacles to achieving good health. In 2018, the Office …
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An Analysis of the Structural Failings of Corporate Governance in Nigeria: the UK Companies Act and US Sarbanes Oxley Act as Models for Reform of the Regulatory Framework of Corporate Governance under the Nigerian Companies Act and Governance Code
The recent corporate scandals at Cadbury Nigeria Plc and Oceanic Bank Plc in Nigeria not only uncovered devastating incidents of corporate malpractices within Nigerian firms but they also appear to highlight the ineffectiveness of the existing regulatory structure of companies in the country. This …
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Crime on the High Seas: What Conditions Are Necessary to Achieve Effective Maritime Governance Regime?
… relies on the world’s oceans for food, trade, and resources. Therefore, the regulation of these oceans is necessary to provide adequate passage through its waters and the management of all the resources they supply for the mutual benefit of all. Although there are international laws such as the …
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The Nexus of State Regulation and Economic Development in Transition Economies (An empirical assessment using Central Asian countries)
… of the state regulation evokes a spirited debate and splits the scholarship into various contesting groups. However, majority of studies investigating the nexus of state regulation and economic performance seem to have yielded overly ambiguous results due to the conceptual shortcomings. State …
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A comparison between the dispute settlement procedures in the international court of justice and the world trade organisation
… international trade by reducing tariffs and other barriers to trade. Alternative structures for each institution are also considered, as is the older dispute settlement process of arbitration, by means of cases. It is a voluntary submission by both parties to a dispute, when they have …
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Voluntary Environmental Initiatives: Sponsorship and Stakeholder Involvement
… initiatives (VEIs) promise to provide firms and facilities additional flexibility and motivation in managing their environmental affairs in part by reducing compliance and enforcement costs and improving their public image. As a result, since 1990, over 13,000 organizations have participated …
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The EU FLEGT scheme: a critical analysis of its potential for promoting effective and equitable forest governance in Africa
This dissertation critically considers and assesses the potential of the EU FLEGT Scheme to provide an effective and equitable legal regime for curbing illegal logging and promoting sustainable forest management (SFM) and good forest governance (GFG) in African Partner Countries. It considers a …
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Towards Robust Exchanges: Evaluating Ecological Compensation in New Zealand
… to assess application of the tool in New Zealand, a systematic nationwide review was undertaken. The research used a combination of qualitative and quantitative tools (i.e. a mixed methods approach) to investigate outcomes associated with ecological compensation under the Resource Management …
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The Myth of the Second Amendment
… provision grounded in collective security and concerns about tyranny to a modern doctrine emphasizing an individual right to possess firearms. It contends that post-Heller (District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) decisions do not simply “apply” founding-era intent to modern circumstances but …
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Using corporate tax regimes to promote economic growth and development: a legal analysis of the Nigerian corporate tax regime.
… the late 2000s has created significant economic and financial challenges globally and within nation states. In particular, oil-producing countries have been further affected by the fall in oil price. It is therefore crucial that alternative, more sustainable methods of sourcing revenue be …