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Global Warming: A Second Coming For International Law?, Deepa Badrinarayana
Global Warming: A Second Coming For International Law?, Deepa Badrinarayana
Deepa Badrinarayana
This paper analyzes the role of international law in addressing global warming through the lens of a select number of compliance theories and rational choice theory. It presents an alternative view to the limits of international law in addressing climate change, i.e., that international law has created an economic dependency that has constrained the space for pursuit of traditional legal rights. In making this argument, this article examines the history oil exploration and climate policy. The article also makes some brief suggestions towards increasing the space for traditional legal rights.
India's Constitutional Challenge: A Less Visible Climate Change Catastrophe, Deepa Badrinarayana
India's Constitutional Challenge: A Less Visible Climate Change Catastrophe, Deepa Badrinarayana
Deepa Badrinarayana
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The Emerging Constitutional Challenge Of Climate Change: India In Perspective, Deepa Badrinarayana
The Emerging Constitutional Challenge Of Climate Change: India In Perspective, Deepa Badrinarayana
Deepa Badrinarayana
India’s rapidly growing economy naturally demands increasing energy needs from the industrial scale down to the personal. Mindful of potential negative impacts of economic development, India is making efforts to encourage growth while preserving and protecting the environment and human rights. India’s Integrated Energy Policy sets out the roadmap for how the country plans to achieve the balance among development, environmental protection, citizens’ rights, energy security, and a host of other priorities and concerns. Though ambitious and broad in scope, the Policy may prove inadequate in mitigating environmental impacts of development, and thus inadequate in balancing India’s needs, particularly in …