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Deciphering Lessons From The Ashes: Saving The Amazon, Shannon K. Woulfe Jun 2022

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 Jan 2020

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 May 2015

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.


Blood Forests: Post Lacey Act, Why Cohesive Global Goverance Is Essential To Extinguish The Market For Illegally Harvested Timber, Sean H. Waite May 2012

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 May 2012

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 May 2012

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.


Population-Environment Linkages In International Law, Diana D.M. Babor Jan 1999

Population-Environment Linkages In International Law, Diana D.M. Babor

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.