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Rocking the boat : conserving fisheries and protecting jobs
MacGinn, Anne Platt - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000665556
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Legislating for Sustainable Fisheries : A Guide to Implementing the 1993 FAO Compliance Agreement and 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement
Edeson, Willaim; Freestone, David; Gudmundsdottir, Elly - 2013
Increasing concerns have been raised about the sustainability of many fish stocks. A number of international instruments, both voluntary and binding, have been formulated to address this. Two important binding agreements designed to adress this problem on a global basis are the 1993 FAO...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012563605
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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014
, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070456
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000302
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999366
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Delinking International Environmental Law and Climate Change
Carlarne, Cinnamon Piñon - 2015
This Article challenges the existing paradigm in international law that frames global efforts to address climate change as a problem of and for international environmental law. The most recent climate reports tell us that warming is unequivocal and that we are already experiencing the impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029779
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Local, Co-Managed Fisheries : A Path to Sustainable Fishing in the Coastal and Island Communities of the Greek Seas
Uffman-Kirsch, J.D., LL.M., PhD Candidate, Lisa - 2014
Fish stock depletion in the world's oceans and seas is one of the world's most serious environmental problems. In light … discussed is the European Union's role in the fisheries governing scheme.Field research gathered on Fourni Island by the author …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055236
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Introduction to ‘Sustainable Development in World Investment Law’
Newcombe, Andrew - 2014
in Sustainable Development in World Trade Law. The volume's goal is to analyse the state of international investment law …
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