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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"environmental agreements"”.
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A legal analysis of multilateral environmental agreements dealing with hazardous products and hazardous waste
… human activities which were recognized as major environmental threats were industrial production processes. As a result, this field was the first which was subjected to environmental law, initially on a domestic level, and then subsequently also on a regional and global level. As development …
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Actors, coalitions and the framework convention on climate change
… national governments to implement international environmental agreements.
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Stewarding the earth : rethinking property and the emergence of biocultural rights.
… a sub‐set of third generation, group rights in environmental law. It submits that these rights, which advocate a people's duty of stewardship over Nature, have arisen as a response to the world's ecological crisis. Indeed, the growing discourse about biocultural rights has begun a radical …
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Can port state measures taken against RMFO partners be reconciled with international trade law? a critical analysis of the EU shared stocks regulation in light of the herring dispute
… in line with a number of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) such as UNCLOS and the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement (UNFSA). The Faroe Islands challenged the Shared Stocks Regulation and the specific Implementing Regulation imposing the port state measures in both the …
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Towards a global consensus on matters of science : how process and membership can generate valid and sustainable science advice in multilateral environmental treaty negotiations
In most multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs), science advisory bodies (SABs) are tasked with producing guidance on scientific aspects of the problem. SABs are a necessary infrastructure of global environmental management because they provide a forum where experts come together to negotiate …
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Development of Market Mechanisms Under International Law to Advance Sustainable Development: An Analysis of the Frameworks Related to Climate Change and Biodiversity
… change and biodiversity regimes have achieved environmentally sound outcomes, been advanced in sectoral approaches, and facilitated via bilateral and multilateral trade and investment relationships, important insights are identified regarding the composition of effective law and governance …
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Trade and the environment : a case study of the South African iron and steel industry
… policies within the sector. International trade agreements affecting the iron and steel industry, and their structures in terms of creating incentives or disincentives for exports or imports, are discussed. An overview is presented of the environmental profile within which the sector is currently …
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Ecotourism and Human-Bear Relations in Ontario: Working for Multispecies Respect and Economic Sustainability
… programs and the added benefits of collaborative environmental agreements and accreditation programs. I explore the potential of these alternative programs to address human-bear conflict, to benefit local settler and indigenous communities, and to reduce resource exploitation in northern Ontario. …
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Integrating ecological impacts into evaluations of the effectiveness of environmental regimes: the example of CITES
The proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements has resulted in an increased interest, from academics and others, in questions regarding the effectiveness of such agreements. Much if not all attention has focused on the institutional aspects of regime functioning, specifically behaviour …
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A Legal Proposal for the Creation of Conservation Agreements in Thailand: A Comparative Study
… to nature conservation.<br/><br/>The concepts of environmental regulation and voluntary environmental agreements are reviewed as underlying ideas behind the laws in place in Thailand and the comparator jurisdictions. They uncover the room for implementing CAs to work alongside command and control …
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Analysis of Environmental Treaty Design: A Data Science Approach
… are hundreds if not thousands of international agreements governing all sorts of environmental problems, from endangered species and pollution to stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change. Analysing and describing the provisions of all these treaties using the traditional `reading and …
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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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Evaluating biosecurity law and regulation in developing countries: case studies from Belize
… will be affected by the various international agreements and standards to which a state is a member. In particular, agreements introduced by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) impose certain restrictions on measures that member countries can adopt for Biosecurity. Furthermore, uncertainties …
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Two Essays of Other-Regarding Preferences' Influence on Social Decision Making
… influence coalition size in international environmental agreements. Reciprocal preferences represent how a decision maker gains an additional positive utility when it responds to a kind action with a kind action or to an unkind action with an unkind action. I incorporate reciprocal …
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The influence of the Paris Agreement on mitigation actions toward the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions post 2015: A comparative study of Nordic, Asian and African regions
… by reducing emissions and does the international environmental regime (IER) have anything to do with their emissions-reductions efforts since 2015? To answer these questions, this thesis tracks the emissions reductions efforts of eight countries to determine whether the IER vis-à-vis the Paris …
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The Role of Social, Economic, and Political Factors in the Design and Establishment of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas
… in global marine biodiversity. This global environmental crisis has inspired international environmental regimes, such as the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), to manage human activity and ensure the long-term persistence of biodiversity by …