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The Emergence Of Right-Based Approaches To Resource Governance In Africa: False Start Or New Dawn?, Damilola S. Olawuyi

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Recommendations For Addressing Environmental Impact Of African Development Projects Funded By Chinese Banks, Tais Ludwig

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Preventing A Renewable Resource Curse, Scott W. Lyons

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Editor's Note, Jacqueline Niba

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Notas A Pie De Página, Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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El Crecimiento De La Justicia Ambiental Y De Protección Del Medio Ambiente En El Derecho Internacional: En El Contexto De La Regulación De Petróleo Submarino De La Industria De Ártico, E.A. Barry-Pheby

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Consentimiento Libre, Previo E Informado: Implicaciones Para Las Empresas Transnacionales, Tendai Zvobgo

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Financiamiento Musulmán Como Un Mecanismo Para Reforzar La Seguridad Alimentaria En El Medio Oriente: Seguridad Alimentaria Waqf, Hdeel Abdelhady

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

El Débil Proceso De Planificatión Frustra La Protección De La Amenazda Línea Costera De Puerto Rico, Mark Borak

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Una Norma Legal Por La Reforma Agraria Poscolonial, Amelia Chizwala Peterson

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Colaboración Y La Ecologia De La Democracia, Daniel Kemmis, Matthew Mckinney

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Crisis Del Agua En La Cuenca De Murray-Darling: Australia Intenta Equilibrar La Necesidad Agricola Con La Realidad Ambiental, Joshua Axelrod

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Los Recursos Naturales De Alto Valor: ¿Una Bendición O Una Maldición Para La Paz?, Päivi Lujala, Siri Aas Rustad

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Dejarles En Bancarrota A Los Saqueadores De Paz: ¿Cuál Es El Rol De Las Fuerzas De Paz De La Onu?, Philippe Le Billon

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Nota Del Los Editores, Veronica Kennedy, Jocelyn Rivera

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Faculty Profiles, David Newman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Coral Reefs In The Philippines, Maggie Parks

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Practitioner's Corner: Ken Markowitz On Serving As An Environmental Advocate, Kimberly Righter

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

2001 Supreme Court Redux, Mary Stevens

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Next Verse, Same As The First: Inadequacies In The Government's Legal Approach Toward Biotechnology, Kimberly Righter

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Implementing Kyoto, Glenn Wiser

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

A Review Of Sierra Leone’S Mines And Minerals Act, Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye, Perrine Toledano, Sophie Thomashausen

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

With the support of Oxfam, the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment reviewed select provisions in the Mines and Minerals Act 2009 and corresponding policy statements from the Minerals Policy 2018 to provide recommendations for how to best align the anticipated new mining law with international best practice. The 2009 law was reviewed with a focus on the following topics:

• Fiscal regime;
• Climate change;
• Access to and use of land;
• Community consultations and participation;
• Human rights; and
• Community development agreements.

The policy brief aims to support the Government of Sierra Leone in the ongoing law reform process.

Electric Utility Alignment With The Sdgs & The Paris Climate Agreement, Perrine Toledano, Aniket Shah, Nicolas Maennling, Ryan J. Lasnick

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda poses a unique and critical challenge to the energy sector: how to scale access to clean energy to power sustainable, economic development for a growing population, while simultaneously decarbonizing global energy supply. Expanding access to clean energy will play a crucial role in achieving nearly every one of the Sustainable Development Goals, including those related to agricultural production, health outcomes, educational performance, water systems, access to infrastructure, and reducing inequalities. However, practices by some actors in the energy sector, and continued over-reliance on greenhouse gas-intensive fossil fuels also undermine global efforts to mitigate climate change …

In Memory Of Professor James E. Bond, Janet Ainsworth

Seattle University Law Review

Janet Ainsworth, Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law: In Memory of Professor James E. Bond.

Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

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The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary: An Exploration Of Changing The Discourse On Conservation, Arielle Ben-Hur

Pitzer Senior Theses

In 2015, the Northern Chumash Tribal Council submitted a National Marine Sanctuary Nomination to establish the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary– a means by which to ensure the protection of one of the most culturally and biologically diverse coastlines in the world. On October 5, 2015, John Armor of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) responded to the nomination, adding it to the inventory of areas NOAA may consider in the future for national marine sanctuary designation.

In my thesis, I explore how the nomination of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary acts as a platform from which Traditional …

Environmental Injustice: How Treaties Undermine Human Rights Related To The Environment, Lisa E. Sachs, Lise Johnson, Ella Merrill

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

Growing cries for action to effectively address the climate and other environmental crises hold important implications for the governance of cross-border investments. Policymakers and environmental advocates have often overlooked how provisions granted by states in international investment agreements (IIAs) have been used by investors to challenge government measures taken in the public interest to protect the environment and advance environmental justice.

This 2019 paper, published in the Sciences Po Legal Review issue devoted to the climate crisis, explains how the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, made available to investors in thousands of bilateral and multilateral trade and investment agreements, may …

The Complexities Of Democracy, Development, And Human Rights In China's Belt And Road Initiative, Diane Desierto

Journal Articles

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-a dense network of China-funded multi-year infrastructure projects in over 65 countries from the Western Pacific to the Baltic Sea, collectively aiming to establish China's strategic "Maritime Belt" and "Silk Road" connectivity using an estimated range of USD$1 Trillion to USD$8 Trillion--is as unprecedented phenomenon in sovereign project financing and bilateral investment lending, since the United States' grant of USD $800 Billion for the Marshall Plan was for Europe's post World War II reconstruction. The scale, scope, and terms of BRI projects remain shrouded in relative opacity, with China as of this writing only incrementally …

Reducing The Governance Gap For Corporate Complicity In International Crimes, Seunghyun Nam

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

With increasing reports of corporations involved in serious human rights abuses that amount to international crimes, there are greater calls for states to hold these corporations accountable. Still, many obstacles and challenges remain when it comes to holding corporations accountable. Complex corporate structures, the extraterritorial dimension of the abuses, competition among states and businesses, lack of institutional capacity on the part of states, and lack of legal coordination among states collectively create an impunity gap. The case studies of the situation in Burma and the Democratic Republic of Congo involving foreign companies aim to illustrate this governance gap. With growing …

Legal Frameworks & Foreign Investment: A Primer On Governments’ Obligations, Kaitlin Y. Cordes, Lise Johnson, Sam Szoke-Burke, Rumbidzaii Mawen

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

Legal frameworks, and how they interact, are often invisible in the day to day. Yet they are powerful forces that influence government actions and that help to shape who benefits and who loses from foreign investment. Understanding these legal frameworks, and how they interact, is critical for anyone concerned with how foreign investment can be better harnessed to support, rather than weaken, sustainable development and human rights.

This primer provides a brief overview of host government obligations under international investment law, international human rights law, domestic law, and relevant investor-state contracts. It also highlights some of the ways in which …