Current regulation and liability schemes ineffectively prevent and routinely under compensate natural resources damages. Compensation instruments, such as liability insurance, direct insurance, risk sharing agreement, environmental funds, and guarantees provided by liable parties or third...

Increasingly, China is planning to move to nuclear power. The plan for China is to double its nuclear capacity in the near future. A critical component is that a regulatory framework has to be developed to accompany this move towards nuclear energy. An important component of such a framework is...

The tsunami which took place on 2011.3.11 before the coast of Japan and the subsequent nuclear incident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant have shocked the world and raised many questions. One of the questions is to what extent victims of the tsunami and of the nuclear incident can receive...

Many have pointed at the fact that the spectacular economic growth in China has come at a high price, especially concerning the environmental costs related to this growth. There is increasing literature available now, both in and outside of China on the available governance instruments that...