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The nuclear power plant in Temelin, Czech Republic, which is located only approximately 50 km from the Austrian and German borders has been the source of a longstanding and at times bitter dispute between the Czech Republic and Austria. It is far from unusual that nuclear power plants are...
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The U.S. is often placed within a liberal-utilitarian model and the E.U. is often positioned within a social model. But, rather than adhere to such neat divisions and other binary choices like regulatory models versus voluntarist models such as the corporate social responsibility model, this...
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With the case of Lliuya v. RWE, climate change litigation has come to Germany. The article explores the German law of torts or delict, asking whether it has something to offer to victims of climate change. The essential elements of negligence liability, i.e. scope of protection, duty of care,...
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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...
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Much of the empirical literature analysing the relation between environmental innovation and competitiveness has … difference in terms of economic gains. We find empirical evidence that both the typology of Environmental Innovation and the … empirical strategy is based on a sample of German firms and makes use of a merge of two waves of the Mannheim Innovation Panel …
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seven aspects, the study focuses on the need for research and on obstacles to innovation when it comes to implementing … resources within the companies themselves are felt to present considerable obstacles to innovation. In its final chapter, the …
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