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Climate Change, Water And Society In The Mena Region: A Legal And Policy Perspective, Foluke Olamiposi Akinmoladun, Christine Eleanor Canderson
Climate Change, Water And Society In The Mena Region: A Legal And Policy Perspective, Foluke Olamiposi Akinmoladun, Christine Eleanor Canderson
Foluke Olamiposi Akinmoladun Mrs
ABSTRACT The MENA Region, having a history of both severe climate change as well as drought, now confronts the challenges of a new period of climate change and drought. Its international water law treaty regimes are underdeveloped and frequently violated, resulting in conflict, increasing the instability and insecurity of the region. The countries of the region also have underdeveloped and frequently violated internal legal regimes. These problematic constructs are now compounded by a crisis in global agricultural trade (virtual water). With the cultural strength of Islamic water and environmental principles, the region has potential for organization and education. The development …
Wind Power, National Security, And Sound Energy Policy, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Wind Power, National Security, And Sound Energy Policy, Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Prof. Elizabeth Burleson
Wind-generated electricity in the United States has grown by more than 400 percent since 2000. According to the Department of Energy, 6 percent of US land could supply more than one and a half times the current electricity consumption of the country. Yet, challenges remain in matching demand for electricity with supply of wind as well as achieving grid parity. Careful wind turbine and transmission line siting can occur through cooperation between federal, state, tribal, and civil society participation in decision-making. Tribal wind initiatives have shown that developing wind power can also benefit rural communities. Congress should pass a national …
Water As A Public Good: The Status Of Water Under The General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, Bryant Walker Smith
Water As A Public Good: The Status Of Water Under The General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade, Bryant Walker Smith
Bryant Walker Smith
Is water a “product” subject to the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)? I argue that it is not, because the established, widespread, and consistent assertion by states of public ownership over their water resources through both municipal and international law (the “public-ownership consensus”) precludes any reading of GATT that would fundamentally alter the unique status of those resources. My reasoning therefore differs from others who have addressed this issue in that I first examine the broader legal context in which the WTO exists and then consider how that context compels an interpretation of “product” …
Modern Lights, Sara Bronin
Modern Lights, Sara Bronin
Sara C. Bronin
This Article functions as a companion to a piece, Solar Rights, recently published in the Boston University Law Review. In that piece, the author analyzed the absence of a coherent legal framework for the treatment of solar rights - the rights to access and harness the rays of the sun. The growing popularity of, and need for, solar collector technology and other solar uses calls for reform. Answering the call for reform in Solar Rights, this Article proposes a framework within which a solar rights regime might be developed. First, as a baseline, any regime must recognize the natural characteristics …