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Introducing The ‘Reconciliatory Approach’ – Harmonizing International Environmental Law With Other Specialised Areas Of International Law, Britta Sjöstedt
Introducing The ‘Reconciliatory Approach’ – Harmonizing International Environmental Law With Other Specialised Areas Of International Law, Britta Sjöstedt
Britta Sjöstedt
In this paper, I argue that international environmental treaties can interact with other specialised areas of law applicable to the same subject matter in the same context by using the ‘reconciliatory approach’ (RA). This approach entails that the institutions established under the environmental treaties are empowered to develop the treaty provisions in a manner that may also take other legal areas into account and thereby be able to reconcile obligations of other specialised legal areas. The RA functions on the premise that international law is one system with the inherent ambition to coherently systematize its norms. By looking at the …
Oil & Gas Pooling, Gina Warren
Harmonizing The International And Domestic Law Of Climate Change In The United States: An Executive Agreement On Climate?, David Wirth
David A. Wirth
No abstract provided.
How Environmental Review Can Generate Pollution: A Case Study, Michael Lewyn
How Environmental Review Can Generate Pollution: A Case Study, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
State environmental review statutes often require state and local governments to draft an environmental impact statement for any project or permit that might have a substantial environmental impact. One such statute, New York's State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) defines “environmental impact” broadly to include not only traditionally environmental impacts such as pollution, but also social impacts such as increased neighborhood population. As a result, any large-scale development is likely to require environmental review under SEQRA.
In my article, I argue that such stringency harms air quality by discouraging infill development (that is, development in already-urbanized areas). Such development is …
The Potential Of Multilateral Environmental Agreements To Protect In Relation To Armed Conflict, Britta Sjöstedt
The Potential Of Multilateral Environmental Agreements To Protect In Relation To Armed Conflict, Britta Sjöstedt
Britta Sjöstedt
This paper is provided for a seminar included in the UN International Law Commission (ILC) Seminars. The seminar deals with the important topic “Protection of the Environment in relation to Armed Conflict” that was put on the ILC’s current agenda of programme in May 2013. In this paper, I will share some of my comments on the new topic at ILC’s agenda. These focus on the potential of multilateral environmental agreements. The destructive activities taking place in relation to armed conflict can cause irreversible impacts on the environment. They can destruct important ecosystems, poison watercourses and extinct species. Keeping in …
Hydropower: It's A Small World After All, Gina Warren
Hydropower: It's A Small World After All, Gina Warren
Gina Warren
No abstract provided.
How Safe Is That Shrimp? The Food Safety Modernization Act, David Wirth
How Safe Is That Shrimp? The Food Safety Modernization Act, David Wirth
David A. Wirth
No abstract provided.
A New Progressive Agenda For Public Health And The Environment, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor
A New Progressive Agenda For Public Health And The Environment, Christopher Schroeder, Rena Steinzor
Rena I. Steinzor
Over the last quarter century, much of the focus of federal regulatory policy in the areas of health, safety, and the environment has been gradually redirected away from protecting Americans against various harms and toward protecting corporate interests from the plain meaning of protective statutes. This book delivers precisely what its title promises, a re-imagining of federal policy in these areas, with particular focus on the regulatory process. It identifies the failings of the current approach to regulation and proposes innovative, straightforward, and practical solutions for the 21st Century. The book is a collaboration among the Member Scholars of the …
Sea Level Rise And Maritime Zones: Preserving The Maritime Entitlements Of ‘Disappearing’ States, Rosemary Rayfuse
Sea Level Rise And Maritime Zones: Preserving The Maritime Entitlements Of ‘Disappearing’ States, Rosemary Rayfuse
Rosemary Rayfuse
No abstract provided.
War And The Environment: International Law And The Protection Of The Environment In Relation To Anned Conffict — Introduction To The Special Issue, Rosemary Rayfuse
War And The Environment: International Law And The Protection Of The Environment In Relation To Anned Conffict — Introduction To The Special Issue, Rosemary Rayfuse
Rosemary Rayfuse
No abstract provided.
Committee On Climate Change, Sustainable Development, And Ecosystems: 2012 Annual Report, John Dernbach
Committee On Climate Change, Sustainable Development, And Ecosystems: 2012 Annual Report, John Dernbach
John C. Dernbach
No abstract provided.
Using Sustainability Criteria For Biofuels In A Legal Context - An Analysis Based On The Eu Policy For Transport Biofuels, Evgenia Pavlovskaia
Using Sustainability Criteria For Biofuels In A Legal Context - An Analysis Based On The Eu Policy For Transport Biofuels, Evgenia Pavlovskaia
Evgenia Pavlovskaia
Sustainable quality of biofuels and their production methods should be seen as a part of the wider concept “sustainability”. Sustainability of biofuels should be measured in relation to resources and possibilities that the Earth can supply us with. This presentation focuses on sustainability criteria in their function to promote sustainability in a legal context, followed by the analysis of the binding EU regulations for transport biofuels as an example. Two main issues are examined: - the concept of sustainability criteria, special features of their use in law and aspects relevant for their practical implementation, and - the issue of control …