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Deals In The Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, And How Law Can Help, Christiana Ochoa
Deals In The Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, And How Law Can Help, Christiana Ochoa
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Informed by original empirical research conducted in the Midwestern United States, this Article provides a rich and textured understanding of the rapidly emerging opposition to renewable energy projects. Beyond the Article’s urgent practical contributions, it also examines the importance of formalism and formality in contracts and complicates current understandings.
Rural communities in every windblown and sun-drenched region of the United States are enmeshed in legal, political, and social conflicts related to the country’s rapid transition to renewable energy. Organized local opposition has foreclosed millions of acres from renewable energy development, impeding national and state-level commitments to achieving renewable energy targets …
Four Perspectives On A Sustainable Future In Nosara, Costa Rica, Greg Munno, Álvaro Salas Castro, Tina Nabatchi, Christian M. Freitag
Four Perspectives On A Sustainable Future In Nosara, Costa Rica, Greg Munno, Álvaro Salas Castro, Tina Nabatchi, Christian M. Freitag
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The town of Nosara on Costa Rica’s Nicoya peninsula is home to a vibrant community of diverse residents and is adjacent to an important turtle nesting site. However, tensions between lifelong residents, more recent transplants, visitors, and developers have increased as more of the world discovers this once-isolated haven. Climate change, income inequality, and alienation from a distant government apparatus have further complicated effective land-use planning and fractured social cohesion. Using a mixed-method approach of in-depth interviews (n = 67), Q methodology (n = 79), and public deliberation (n = 88), we explored residents’ priorities for the future of their …
The Human Rights Potential Of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Christiana Ochoa, Patrick Keenan
The Human Rights Potential Of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Christiana Ochoa, Patrick Keenan
Articles by Maurer Faculty
In April, 2008, World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, called for sovereign wealth funds to invest one percent of their capital in Africa. The result will be the International Finance Corporation's Sovereign Funds Initiative and is an attempt to nurture the potential of sovereign wealth funds to contribute to economic development and improved well-being in a number of countries in Africa and elsewhere. This article explores the actual potential of the Sovereign Funds Initiative to realize its desired goals. After exploring and demonstrating the disappointing effects of natural resource wealth, development aid and foreign direct investment on some developing countries, the …
Climate Change, Adaptation, And Development, Daniel H. Cole
Climate Change, Adaptation, And Development, Daniel H. Cole
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Since the signing the Kyoto Protocol, the international community has focused a great deal of attention on measures designed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Much less attention has been paid to climate change adaption. This is unfortunate because, even if the Kyoto Protocol is fully implemented, climate change will generate substantial costs requiring substantial adaptation efforts, especially in the less developed countries (LDCs) of the world's tropical regions.
This paper considers what those countries should be doing in preparation for the effects of climate change, and what the countries of the developed world, including the United States, can and …
The Law And Economics Of Development And Environment: An Introduction To The Symposium, Daniel H. Cole
The Law And Economics Of Development And Environment: An Introduction To The Symposium, Daniel H. Cole
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Intellectual Property Issues In Plant Breeding And Plant Biotechnology, Mark D. Janis
Intellectual Property Issues In Plant Breeding And Plant Biotechnology, Mark D. Janis
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Annual Giving And Beyond: Acting Dean Terry Bethel Talks About The Law School's Development Program, Miriam Haber-Payne
Annual Giving And Beyond: Acting Dean Terry Bethel Talks About The Law School's Development Program, Miriam Haber-Payne
Terry Bethel (1990-1991 Acting)
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