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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"International Environmental Law"”.
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A psychological perspective on international environmental law
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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The Protection of the Environment in Occupied Territory under International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law and International Environmental Law
… armed conflict is now widely acknowledged. International law has established various treaties that address the relationship between military activities and environmental damage during active hostilities, providing protection in such situations. However, the effectiveness of public …
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Uncertainty, Risk and the (in)Applicability of the Precautionary Principle: Reassessing the Scope of Precaution and Prevention in International Environmental Law
… of precaution has been widely endorsed in environmental treaties since its inclusion in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, as a legal principle, it has been framed in such vastly dissimilar ways that it continues to generate significant disagreement over its precise nature, …
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Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law: Towards Differentiated Legal Obligations
This Thesis is a study on the law and practice of international cooperation and responsibility sharing for refugees, both as it is and as it should be, with a strong focus on the latter. Despite the existence of a general duty of states to cooperate to protect refugees in international law, there …
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The legality and feasibility of the use of compulsory licensing under the trips agreement to facilitate the transfer of environmentally sound technologies under the UNFCCC regime
… of the climate system. However, the transfer of environmentally sound technologies between countries, part of the broader concept known as technology transfer, faces challenges related to intellectual property rights. Developing nations argue that intellectual property rights hinder technology …
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Decentralised International Cooperation: Enhancing Conservation and Sustainable Management of Transboundary Natural Resources
The concept of decentralised international cooperation promotes the involvement of sub-national actors, both local communities and local authorities, in the governance of transboundary natural resources and spaces. This concept describes a global legal phenomenon that can be observed in different …
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THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE & COMPLEX SOVEREIGNTY: USING THE PATHWAYS FRAMEWORK TO EXPLAIN DOMESTIC POLICY OUTCOMES
… has emerged as one of the most contentious international norms within international environmental law. Yet, despite the vexing conceptual uncertainties confronting the precautionary principle, it is repeatedly invoked by policy makers and incorporated within international and domestic …
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Trade and the Environment: The Environment within the World Trade Organization
… Agreement. For the discussion on trade-related environmental disputes there are three exceptions of most importance within the GATT Agreement. Under these provisions the member states can take trade-related measures for environmentally protective reasons. These general exceptions under the GATT …
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Mekong agreement and its implications for China
… hydropolitics it focuses on an analysis of the international law and China's state practice, aimed at identifying the rules of customary international law in the utilization and protection of international watercourses. China's attitude towards them is explored with evidence from statements made …
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The Legality of Border Walls under International Law
… the legality of border walls under public international law, focusing on four legal regimes: international refugee law, international human rights law, international indigenous law, and international environmental law. For illustration, the thesis assesses the compatibility of wall …
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The existence and formulation of international law relating to nuclear testing; and the lawfulness of such tests in light of their impact on the environment
International environmental law is an expanding and evolving entity. A complex regime of controls and principles are required to maintain the respect of international law by the increasing number of states within the world community. A large community encompasses a multitude of divergent and …
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Preservation of Ecosystems of International Watercourses and the Integration of Relevant Rules
… provides for the preservation of ecosystems of international watercourses.<br/>However, the interpretation and the subsequent application of this obligation are complicated by the proliferation of international instruments concerning the environment, which leads to the fragmentation of …
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Towards the environmental minimum: an argument for environmental protection through human rights
… lines of objection to linking human rights and environmental interests: conceptual, those arising from issues of recognition, vagueness and conflicts between human rights, ecological, especially from those seeking protections for the environment regardless of its utility to humans, and those …
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Protection of the environment in times of armed conflict under international law
The thesis is concerned with the international obligations of States towards the environment during armed conflict. At the outset, the author analyses in what ways warfare may damage the environment, drawing inter alia from the examples of the first Gulf War, the Vietnam War, and the Kosovo …
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International water law and the quest for common security
… stability and endanger the very foundation of international security. Yet, the much needed radical new approach is missing. This is mainly due to the fact that addressing water insecurity is a highly complex task where multilevel and polycentric forces must be balanced and coordinated. The …
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Climate Torts and Ecocide in the Context of Proposals for an International Environmental Court
… neither novel nor lacking in exploration: Is an International Environmental Court (IEC) needed? Is such a court feasible? Proposals for an IEC have a rich history, are well founded and numerous. On the issue of necessity, this thesis attempts to pull together historical and current information on …
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Distributive justice in international law: : can the CDM regime support an equitable geographic distribution of projects?
This research determines whether and how an equitable geographic distribution of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects can be achieved. In particular, it examines whether the CDM legal regime can achieve an equitable geographic distribution of projects, or whether the issues that contribute to …
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Law as a regulator: steering waste management by steering itself through its relationship with the environment
… economy in terms of the social factors – law, economics, politics, etc. ‐ that influence behaviour. The proposed conceptualisation moves away from the notion of waste as a material substance discarded by human beings into the environment; instead, waste is a shared understanding of the …
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Can the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change achieve its ultimate objective?
… day goes by without reading, in the national and international media, about new evidence of catastrophic climate change, be it droughts, floods, fires, storms or wildlife extinction. But are we to blame? Are anthropogenic (human-induced) interferences with the climate system causing. climate …
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Settling Environment-Related Investment Disputes: Current Approaches and A Way Forward
… have passed since the relationship between the laws governing foreign investment and environmental protection started to receive well-deserved attention. Despite a vast quantity of recommended methods and emphasis on the importance of environmental considerations, recent awards have proved that …
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