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The Crowded Greenhouse : Population, Climate Change, and Creating a Sustainable World

Firor, John - 2002

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 One Vision of the Year 2050 -- 2 The New World of Population Policy … -- 3 Putting Cairo to Work -- 4 U.S. Population Activism in the New Century -- 5 A Warming World -- 6 International Climate …

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Global Warming : A Second Coming for International Law?

Badrinarayana, Deepa - 2010

Currently, there are no adequate mechanisms under international law to balance the competing tensions climate change presents to state sovereignty. On one hand, climate change threatens state sovereignty because the catastrophic loss of life and property of millions of people would deprive...

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Change by Necessity : Ecological Limits to Capitalism, Climate Change, and Obstacles to Transition to an Environmentally Sustainable Economy

Barbosa, Luiz C. - 2014

The paper presents a world-systemic treadmill of production analysis exploring the major obstacles to transition to a … unsustainable economy in order to avoid risks and maximize profits. The paper also argues that world-systemic inequalities pose …

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Making Economic Development and Job Creation Drivers of Serious Action on Climate Change and Environmental Protection

Dernbach, John C. - 2017

One of the most longstanding narratives in environmental law and politics is the alleged necessity of choosing between development and environment. The narrative, based on conventional development, has a built-in zero-sum game — development or environment. A competing narrative, which has been...

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The Role of Sustainable Buildings in Climate Change Mitigation

Warnock, Ceri; Warnock, C. G. - 2018

the form of government intervention is necessary. This paper considers examples of law and policy from around the world …

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The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage Sites : Environmental Law and Adaptation

Gruber, Stefan - 2014

Climate change poses a severe threat to many cultural heritage sites. Threats include floods, increasing extreme weather events, desertification, deterioration of permafrost, and the decay of cultural landscapes. Protecting cultural heritage sites proves to be very difficult as they are very...

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Issue of Human Rights Obligations Relating to the Enjoyment of a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment : Climate Change Report

Knox, John H. - 2016

This report describes the increasing attention paid to the relationship between climate change and human rights in recent years, reviews the effects of climate change on the full enjoyment of human rights and outlines the application of human rights obligations to climate-related actions. The...

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Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement

Delimatsis, Panos - 2016

The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...

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International Environmental Law, Climate Change, and Intergenerational Justice (Executive Summary and Background Paper)

Carlson, Jonathan C. - 2014

This background paper to the Climate Legacy Initiative project assesses whether existing international environmental law is adequate to address the challenge of global climate change. It considers both current treaty rules governing climate change and customary principles of international...

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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014

resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …

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