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Sultana, F. and A. Loftus, Water Politics: Governance, Justice and the Right to Water, 2020
17-07-2020
Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years.
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By F. de Jonge
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Japan resumes Commercial Whaling
03-01-2019
Japan will officially withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), with the intention to resume commercial whaling in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in July 2019.
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On January 30, 2013, the court (Rechtbank) in the Hague, The Netherlands, ruled that Royal Dutch Shell can be held partially responsible for pollution in Nigeria's Niger Delta region and ordered it to pay damages to one farmer.
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Coral Reefs under Threat?
07-04-2016
Are coral reefs condemned to disappear?
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‘Make Our Planet Great Again’: the Impact of Trump’s Decision to Leave the Paris Agreement
10-06-2017
The Paris Agreement
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A Legal Definition of Ecocide
15-07-2021
Stop Ecocide Foundation, an NGO founded by Polly Higgins and Jojo Mehta, defines 'ecocide' as serious harm to the environment: "mass damage or destruction to ecosystems, com
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In the past few years the Dutch national court issued two landmark decisions, the Urgenda case and a class action case against Royal Dutch Shell. In this blog I will give a summary of both landmark climate cases and the impact of these cases.
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Near-total ban on three pesticides
On Thursday 17 May 2018 the Court of Justice of the European Union
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This book presents a broad overview of the many intersections between health and the environment that lie at the basis of the most crucial environmental health issues, focusing on the responses provided by international and EU law.
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Inspired by recent litigation, this book identifies and critically appraises the manifold and varied approaches to calculating compensation for damage caused to the environment. It examines a wide range of practice on compensation – in general and specifically for environmental damage – from that
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This book analyzes the interplay between development and the environment, focusing on how to forge social consensus and practices in the international community.
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This book seeks to better understand how International Environmental Law regimes evolve.
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This fully updated second edition of Corporate Accountability in International Environmental Law examines systematically all international sources of corporate accountability standards with specific reference to environmental protection, and elaborates on their theoretical and practical
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The European Union has succeeded in bringing into force an impressive package of regulatory measures aiming to provide a high level of environmental protection across the EU.
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Heyvaert, V. and L. Duvic-Paoli, Research Handbook on Transnational Environmental Law, 2020
10-06-2021
This illuminating Research Handbook offers a detailed overview and critical discussion of the key themes and perspectives that characterize the burgeoning research area of transnational environmental law.
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On 26 April 1986, now thirty years ago, a vast accident happened in a nuclear powerplant in Chernobyl, Ukraine (formerly the Soviet Union). The fire in unit 4 of the nuclear power plant released massive amounts of radioactive material into the air.
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Birnie, Boyle, and Redgwell's International Law and the Environment places legislation on the protection of the environment firmly at the core of its argument. It uses sharp and thorough analysis of the law, sharing knowledge and experience.
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Arctic environment and history of Arctic drilling
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The term "climate justice" began to gain traction in the late 1990s following a wide range of activities by social and environmental justice movements that emerged in response to the operations of the fossil fuel industry and, later, to what their members saw as the failed global climate governan