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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...

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Assuming Away the Problem : The Vexing Relationship between International Trade and Environmental Protection

Bratspies, Rebecca M. - 2012

What does global trade mean for the environment of any particular place? It can produce place-based transformations that are both positive and negative. The Kuznets curve is often touted as a solution that resolves the conflict between trade promotion and environmental protection by purporting...

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Public and Private Regulations for the Governance of the Risks of Offshore Methane Hydrates

Partain, Roy Andrew - 2016

offshore methane hydrates. Prior to the discussions on public and private regulation, the study provides an introduction to … advantages of public regulation to govern the risks of accidents are presented. Third, a discussion reviews the potential … interactions of public regulation and private rules of civil liability. Fourth, the potential for private parties to advance …

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Approaches to solving China's marine plastic pollution and CO2 emission problems

Lin, Chen; Nakamura, Shinichiro - In: Economic systems research 31 (2019) 2, pp. 143-157

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Turning off the tap : how the world can end plastic pollution and create a circular economy

UNEP - 2023

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A review of transnational regulations in environmental protection and the circular economy

Wysokińska, Zofia - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 23 (2020) 4, pp. 149-168

The aim of the paper is to present a review of transnational regulations (global and European) in the field of environmental protection and the circular economy. The paper discusses the regulations proposed in publications and reports of such glob-al organizations and UN Agencies as the United...

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The Environmental Justice Implications of Biofuels

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2016

Analyses of the viability of biofuels as alternatives to fossil fuels have often adopted a technocratic approach that focuses on environmental consequences, but places less emphasis on the impact that biofuels may have on vulnerable populations. This Article fills the gap in the existing...

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Transnational Liability in U.S. Courts for Environmental Harms Abroad

Hester, Tracy - 2021

Modern energy and natural resource development has always been, at heart, a global enterprise. Energy companies and developers, by necessity, frequently work in far-flung locations scattered among nations with vastly different legal systems and environmental regulatory systems. If one of their...

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Compensation for Natural Resource Damages from Oil Spills : A Comparison of USA Law and International Conventions

Jones, Carol Adaire - 2013

the 1996 regulations implementing the natural resource liability provisions of the USA Oil Pollution Act [OPA], natural …

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Climate Change and Damages

Voigt, Christina - 2015

While negotiations on a global deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions continue in slow motion, the pace of climatic change gains momentum. Higher than ever atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations1 increase the likelihood and frequency of extreme weather events, as well as the probability of...

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