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Deciphering Lessons From The Ashes: Saving The Amazon, Shannon K. Woulfe
Deciphering Lessons From The Ashes: Saving The Amazon, Shannon K. Woulfe
Natural Resources Journal
For over forty years, Brazil, its subnational governments, Indigenous communities, other nations, non-governmental organizations, corporations, and individuals have worked to conserve the Amazon rainforest through a staggering number of diverse international initiatives. While some initiatives have supported Brazil in decreasing the rate of deforestation over the past fifteen years, the 2019 fires demonstrated that destruction continues. Left unchecked, this irreversible destruction promises to amplify. Fortunately, the long history of global involvement in Amazon conservation provides ample lessons for effective, place-based deforestation prevention. Thoughtful and coordinated international action can address the current lethal combination of destructive factors: Brazil’s environmentally hostile federal …
Seeing The Forest For The Trees: Public And Private Law Tools For Halting Deforestation, Harriette I. Resnick
Seeing The Forest For The Trees: Public And Private Law Tools For Halting Deforestation, Harriette I. Resnick
Pace Environmental Law Review
No abstract provided.
Drone Technology: Benefits, Risks, And Legal Considerations, Kurt W. Smith
Drone Technology: Benefits, Risks, And Legal Considerations, Kurt W. Smith
Seattle Journal of Environmental Law
The ability for drones to do beneficial and cost-effective environmental work is widely understood and being applied both nationally and internationally. Less well understood are the types of laws that are needed to protect the public amid rising concerns about privacy for citizens, interference with commercial aircraft, and the potential risk to homeland security. Achieving a reasonable balance between the risks and benefits of this technology is critical as the widespread use of drones continues to grow.
The Cost Of Doing Business In Asia: A Comparative Legal Study Of Environmental Regulations In The Emerging Markets Of Thailand, Malaysia, And Indonesia, Brooke R. Padgett
The Cost Of Doing Business In Asia: A Comparative Legal Study Of Environmental Regulations In The Emerging Markets Of Thailand, Malaysia, And Indonesia, Brooke R. Padgett
Brooke R. Padgett
Abstract: This article explores whether voluntary standards, customary law, or more binding bilateral investment treaties are best for corporations, the emerging markets of Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and the environment itself. While corporations, markets, and the environment facially seem to have divergent priorities, environmental disasters are more costly after the fact than they are to prevent so in reality their priorities may not be so different after all. Some of the potential issues the paper will examine and address are big picture macro level such as fairness to future generations, intergenerational rights; the actual cost through questions of polluter pays, …
Blood Forests: Post Lacey Act, Why Cohesive Global Goverance Is Essential To Extinguish The Market For Illegally Harvested Timber, Sean H. Waite
Blood Forests: Post Lacey Act, Why Cohesive Global Goverance Is Essential To Extinguish The Market For Illegally Harvested Timber, Sean H. Waite
Seattle Journal of Environmental Law
No abstract provided.
Fedding The Dragon: Managing Chinese Resource Acquisition In Africa, Patrick Munson, Zheng Ronghui
Fedding The Dragon: Managing Chinese Resource Acquisition In Africa, Patrick Munson, Zheng Ronghui
Seattle Journal of Environmental Law
No abstract provided.
Interdicting Timber Theft In A Safe Place: A Statutory Solution To The Traffic Stop Problem, Randy J. Trick
Interdicting Timber Theft In A Safe Place: A Statutory Solution To The Traffic Stop Problem, Randy J. Trick
Seattle Journal of Environmental Law
No abstract provided.
Innovations In Governance: A Functional Typology Of Private Governance Institutions, Tracey M. Roberts
Innovations In Governance: A Functional Typology Of Private Governance Institutions, Tracey M. Roberts
Tracey M Roberts
Communities are increasingly looking to private governance institutions, rather than formal government, to set public policy and to manage the environmental and social impacts of globalization. Private governance institutions, sets of rules and structures for governing without government, remain undertheorized despite an expanding literature. Questions remain about why they have arisen, what functions they serve, and whether they are effective. This article advances that literature in several ways. First, the article outlines the inherent limitations of the conventional taxonomy, which groups these institutions based on the identity of their constituent organizations (business interests, civil society, and government entities and their …
Global Climate Governance To Enhance Biodiversity & Well-Being: Integrating Non-State Networks And Public International Law In Tropical Forests, Andrew Long
Andrew Long
Environmental governance frequently represents a leading edge of global regulation. The climate regime even continues to create new modes of regulation despite a negotiation impasse. These new initiatives, like existing legal approaches to environmental challenges, too often embrace a fragmented view of issue areas that fails to reflect fundamental connections between the objects of regulation. The shortcomings of a state-driven international issue-by-issue approach to global environmental governance have long been obvious in some areas (such as tropical forests), and are becoming ever clearer in others (most notably climate change). Therefore, private networks play an increasingly important role in global environmental …
The International Tropical Timber Organization And Conservationist Forestry Norms: A Bridge Too Far, Gerry J. Nagtzaam
The International Tropical Timber Organization And Conservationist Forestry Norms: A Bridge Too Far, Gerry J. Nagtzaam
Gerry J Nagtzaam
This article explores the attempts to create an global tropical timber regime and examines its underlying competing environmental norms of exploitation, conservation and preservation. It outlines a history of forestry exploitation over time and tracks the stilted development of a global tropical timber regime. It further examines the development of the International Tropical Timber Agreement and its concomitant Organisation. Legro’s test of the robustness of a norm is applied to the tropical timber regime to determine when and why, and through whose agency, normative change has not been effected within the International Tropical Timber Organisation where conservationist norms have failed …
Reducing Emissions From Deforestation In Developing Countries: International And National Governance (Case Study Of Indonesia), Nathaniel Mangunsong
Reducing Emissions From Deforestation In Developing Countries: International And National Governance (Case Study Of Indonesia), Nathaniel Mangunsong
Nathaniel Mangunsong
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bali in December 2007 resulted in a landmark decision on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries (RED). This scheme promises an option of reducing deforestation as well as promoting carbon credit as an alternative income-generating activity within forest countries. However, there are still some challenges and issues that must be resolved before there can be successful implementation of this scheme such as the issues of leakage and permanence. These issues need to be addressed through establishing strong international and national governance. On the international level, there is a need …
Mr. Smith Goes To Nairobi: The Unwritten Role Of Local Actors Within International Environmental Law, Caleb W. Christopher
Mr. Smith Goes To Nairobi: The Unwritten Role Of Local Actors Within International Environmental Law, Caleb W. Christopher
Caleb W Christopher
This article first describes the existing participatory landscape of international environmental law. Local or regional governments, under a traditional federal model of domestic environmental law, are often responsible for undertaking some degree of discretionary enforcement of national policy. In addition, a variety of other tools, including citizen suits, public hearings and rulemaking comment, afford local communities with some degree of direct participation. However, under traditional international law, local communities often lack meaningful participatory mechanisms. Local government’s role includes very limited regulatory abilities and international business solicitation. Local communities may have a limited role during public comment periods of environmental impact …
Is International Trade Really Making Developing Countries Dirtier And Developed Countries Richer?, Maria Vittoria C. Carminati Garbino
Is International Trade Really Making Developing Countries Dirtier And Developed Countries Richer?, Maria Vittoria C. Carminati Garbino
Maria Vittoria C Carminati Garbino
The current assumption in most of the literature surrounding international trade and environmental law is that these two areas are at odds with each other. This strong belief that development and the environment are a zero-sum game has led some to believe that developing countries in search for prosperity cannot have trade as well as environmental protection. However, emerging studies as well as a review of actual case-law indicates that this is not necessarily true. This Comment illustrates how developing countries have been able to navigate their way between development and sustainability, thus creating cracks in the otherwise seamless assumption …
The African Bushmeat Crisis: A Case For Global Partnership, Andrew Elliott Kohn, Heather E. Eves
The African Bushmeat Crisis: A Case For Global Partnership, Andrew Elliott Kohn, Heather E. Eves
ExpressO
Across Central Africa a commercial, unsustainable, and largely illegal hunting and trade in wildlife for meat has expanded in recent years causing immediate threat to countless wildlife populations and species. Currently, multi-national agreements and government initiatives created to address the bushmeat crisis in the region are unable to halt the extensive destruction to the area’s unique biodiversity . Although many of these agreements strongly support addressing the bushmeat crisis, they lack the resources and capacity to be fully implemented. Strong U.S. engagement in a global partnership, arising from intensive, complete, and wide-ranging bipartisan commitment would greatly enhance existing international biodiversity …
Light From The Trees: The Story Of Minors Oposa And The Russian Forest Cases , Oliver Austin Houck
Light From The Trees: The Story Of Minors Oposa And The Russian Forest Cases , Oliver Austin Houck
ExpressO
This article describes two lawsuits in the late twentieth century that changed their countries in ways from which there will be no return. One took place in the Philippines, emerging from the reign of Fernando Marcos, and the other in Russia, following a near century of communist rule. They have two things in common. They declared the rights of their citizens to challenge, and reverse, government decisions. And they were about the environment, more particularly, trees. What we learn is that notions of environmental protection, citizen enforcement and judicial review have traveled the world and that, in differing legal systems, …
Population-Environment Linkages In International Law, Diana D.M. Babor
Population-Environment Linkages In International Law, Diana D.M. Babor
Denver Journal of International Law & Policy
No abstract provided.