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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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Water Scarcity, Conflict, and Security in a Climate Change World : Challenges and Opportunities for International Law and Policy
Eckstein, Gabriel - 2014
Although climate change is expected to have major consequences that affect the global environment in its broadest sense, one of the earliest and most direct impacts will be on Earth's fresh water systems. While some regions will experience increased precipitation, others will suffer serious...
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WTO Rules Can Prevent Climate Change Mitigation for Agriculture
Häberli, Christian - 2016
This paper asks how countries can implement their commitments to limit the increase in the global average temperature under the recent Paris Agreement on Climate Change for agriculture. An initial examination of the relevant trade rules and case law indicates that they appear unable to legally...
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The Role of the Protected Area Concept in Protecting the World’s Largest Natural Reserve : Antarctica
Bastmeijer, Kees - 2010
comparable with protected area systems in other parts of the world; however, strengthening the overall protection of Antarctica …
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Get Green or Get Out : Decoupling Environmental from Economic Objectives in Agricultural Regulation
Chen, James Ming - 2014
American agricultural law's environmental record is a legacy of legislative failure. Most of the blame can and should be attributed to the failure of the law to separate ecological objectives from competing and ultimately contradictory economic objectives. Two strains of agroecological fallacies...
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Fiddling as the World Burns : How Climate Change Urgently Requires a Paradigm Shift in the Permitting of Renewable Energy Projects
Thaler, Jeff - 2015
offshore wind power as a case study, this article demonstrates how, in an increasingly carbon-constrained world, our existing …
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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis
Narula, Smita - 2015
The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in … world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food production as small-scale independent food producers or … agricultural laborers. These facts and figures signal a definitive blow to efforts to reduce global hunger and lift the world …
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Water Law in the United States and Brazil - Climate Change & Two Approaches to Emerging Water Poverty
Cassuto, David N.; Sampaio, Romulo S. R. - 2015
instance, is home to between eight and fifteen percent of the world’s fresh water, and its fast-growing economy and population …
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Tracing the Limits of the Green Economy
Bratspies, Rebecca M. - 2019
This paper was presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law as part of a panel considering the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development. It critiques the "Green Economy," a theme of the Rio 20 Conference, by emphasizing the core indeterminancy of the...
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Climate Change Law : An Introduction
Dernbach, John C.; Kakade, Seema M. - 2015
This article explains the basic elements of climate change law, with a particular focus on those issues that promise to be important for a considerable time as well as the major factors that are driving the development of this law. The emerging law of climate change is being constructed at the...
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