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In recent years, China has launched ambitious measures to tackle water pollution. As political commitment and public … regulatory, administrative, monitoring, and public participation dimensions of China's water environmental management. Related …-based management model, appear at present as essential prerequisites to overcome the fragmentation of China's water environmental …
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which damages may occur. This article takes into consideration China’s legal framework in assessing the risks connected to … MH offshore extraction. Such a choice for examination is justified by China’s leading position for implementing the … technology necessary for extracting MH. This analysis shows that China’s current legal instruments are still far from fully …
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Reasons for the joint use of ex ante regulation and ex post liability to cope with environmental accidents have been a longstanding issue in law and economics literature. This article, which includes the first empirical study of the French environmental legal system, analyzes courts’ decisions...
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The key question in this paper is to determine whether regulation and regulators information can help solving causal uncertainty problems in liability. A widely held view among Law & Economics scholars is that civil liability alone is not well-suited to cope with environmental accidents,...
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In recent years, one of the most salient aspects of environmentalism has been the environmental justice movement and its complaints of discrimination against the poor and racial minorities in the administration and enforcement of the nation's environmental laws. One of the most severe criticisms...
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Individual and corporate responsibility is the basis for sustainable development of society and the world. Environmental responsibility of business entities is a prerequisite for the survival of people, which is why it is an important aspect of corporate responsibility. The purpose of the paper...
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The European Aarhus Convention is the only public law convention devoted to public participation in environmental matters. The Convention has application broadly to Australia as many of the Convention’s provisions are reflected in Australian environmental law. The Convention has an ambitious...
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Under the Clean Air Act, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to determine the stringency of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), arguably the most important federal environmental program, without considering the costs of achieving these standards. Instead, it...
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The Information Economy produces a host of new injuries to personal privacy. These include damage from data mining, data spills, identity theft, the tracking of online activity, and spam. Policymakers are currently searching for a framework with which to think about the governance of these...
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