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The Precautionary Principle In The Colombian Constitutional Jurisprudence: Scientific Uncertainty And Selective Omissions [En Español], Daniel A. Monroy, Camilo E. Ossa
The Precautionary Principle In The Colombian Constitutional Jurisprudence: Scientific Uncertainty And Selective Omissions [En Español], Daniel A. Monroy, Camilo E. Ossa
Daniel A Monroy C
En el presente artículo se propone hacer una lectura crítica al principio de precaución, buscando profundizar, de manera específica, algunas cuestiones que minan el equilibrio del principio como instrumento guía para la toma decisiones de quien corresponde tomarlas. Así, el artículo está estructurado en dos partes, (i) por un lado se aborda la cuestión teórica, desarrollando la concepción que, en la doctrina, se tiene frente al principio, teniendo en cuenta dos aspectos esenciales como son: las implicaciones que supone afronta la “incertidumbre científica”, elemento fundamental del principio; y, la defensa de la tesis según la cual en muchos casos la …
C(R)Ap And Trade: The Brave New World Of Non-Point Source Nutrient Trading And Using Lessons From Greenhouse Gas Markets To Make It Work, Victor B. Flatt
C(R)Ap And Trade: The Brave New World Of Non-Point Source Nutrient Trading And Using Lessons From Greenhouse Gas Markets To Make It Work, Victor B. Flatt
Victor B Flatt
After several decades of improvement, water quality in the United States is getting worse, and the problem is primarily caused by run-off from non-point sources, such as farms and urban development. These non-point sources have never had regulatory mandates in the Clean Water Act, and have proven very difficult to control. With little likelihood of comprehensive statutory changes, the EPA and the states that administer the Clean Water Act have looked to other regulatory means to address this problem. One of the most prominent has been the use of markets in pollution (particularly for nutrient pollution from run-off) to provide …
The Rural Environmental Cadastre (Car) As A Tool For Environmental Regularization In Land Reform Settlements, Lucas Abreu Barroso, Guilherme Viana De Alencar
The Rural Environmental Cadastre (Car) As A Tool For Environmental Regularization In Land Reform Settlements, Lucas Abreu Barroso, Guilherme Viana De Alencar
Lucas Abreu Barroso
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Land Statute (Law n. 4,504 / 1964). Enacted at the beginning of the military dictatorship, the Land Statute was the formula found to contain the pressure coming from rural areas which demanded a government policy based on Land Reform. Although designed primarily to distribute land in the Northern Region, after the re-democratization in 1985, peasant movements were present in the five regions of the country, showing that the struggle for land happened nationwide. According to the National Institute for Settlement and Agrarian Reform, by 2013, in Brazil 1,288,444 families were settled in the …