This book addresses the forms of legal protection extended to people displaced due to the consequences of climate change, and who have either become refugees by crossing international borders or are climatically displaced persons (CDPs) in their own homelands.
This book analyzes international and Chinese regulatory approaches addressing environmental risks that may be caused by GM crops and examines how China implements its international obligations in its policies and laws.
This book examines the role of local knowledge in promoting agricultural innovation and legislative support for agricultural innovation through intellectual property laws and the protection of farmers' rights.
This is the first book that critically examines the reform of the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in light of the current crisis resulting from the U.
This book analyzes the interplay between development and the environment, focusing on how to forge social consensus and practices in the international community.
This book addresses the forms of legal protection extended to people displaced due to the consequences of climate change, and who have either become refugees by crossing international borders or are climatically displaced persons (CDPs) in their own homelands.
This book examines the current status of environmental human rights at the international, regional, and national levels and provides a critical analysis of possible future developments in this area, particularly in the context of a changing climate.
This book identifies the most effective water policy tools and innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation by taking a comparative look at a world-leading 'laboratory' of water law and governance: Australia.
This book focuses on understanding the characteristics of the marine environment; overall characteristic of the marine resources (especially the marine new energy) and their current utilization; important routes, channels, and ports; and the Maritime Silk Road from the perspective of international law.
The main focus of this book is to survey the current status of research, development and use of agriculturally important microorganisms in Asian countries and develop a strategy for addressing critical issues various policy constraints due to which bio-pesticides have found limited applications.
This book addresses why, whether and how the existing legal framework on water management in China could make climate change adaptation a mainstream issue.
La teoria de justicia ambiental reconoce la existencia de varios grados de responsabilidad por los danos infligidos al ambiente, de acuerdo con las acciones y conductas de sus responsables.
Esta obra estudia la manera como los pueblos indígenas de Colombia afrontan los conflictos ambientales, es decir, aquellos relacionados con el uso, manejo, control, aprovechamiento, explotación, conservación y protección de los recursos naturales existentes en sus territorios.
"Desde el año 2007, Colombia ha proferido varias resoluciones en virtud de las cuales ha impuesto la obligación a los fabricantes e importadores (de plaguicidas, medicamentos, pilas y acumuladores, computadores e impresoras, baterías, llantas usadas y baterías usadas con plomo ácido), de diseñar, financiar e implementar programas de devolución selectiva de estos residuos.
Casi todo lo que nos rodea implica riesgos de algún tipo, aunque no obstante es la cultura del riesgo la que ha coadyuvado al progreso y el desarrollo de la sociedad.
"Esta obra se estructura en seis líneas y parte de una conceptualización en la temática de los residuos, reconociendo sus definiciones y clasificaciones, enmarcadas en cuatro grandes grupos: residuos sólidos, peligrosos, de atención en salud y otras actividades y de aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos.
"En este catálogo se presenta la información relativa a los proyectos nanciados por la Ponticia Universidad Javeriana Cali entre 2014-2018, para el caso de los grupos de investigación de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales.
This volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (NYIL) addresses the question how the assumption that states have a common obligation to achieve a collective public good can be reconciled with the fact that the 195 states of today's world are highly diverse and increasingly unequal in terms of size, population, politics, economy, culture, climate and historical development.
This book brings together leading and emerging scholars and practitioners to present an overview of how regional, international and transnational courts and tribunals are engaging with the environment.
More than ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, this book critically reviews the achievements, limits and next frontiers of business and human rights following the 'protect, respect, remedy' trichotomy.
This sixth volume of the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on current legal challenges regarding nuclear disarmament and security.
This fifth volume in the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on various legal aspects regarding nuclear security and nuclear deterrence.
This book provides a comprehensive study of border control: from data analysis andinformation warfare, frameworks for command and control, and game-theoretic riskmanagement, up to the (optimal) deployment of law enforcement missions.
This book considers the international law applicable to maritime interception operations (MIO) conducted on the high seas and within the context of international peace and security, MIO being a much-used naval operational activity employed within the entire spectrum of today's conflicts.
This fourth volume in the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on human perspectives regarding the development and use of nuclear energy; the need for regional solutions; and recent activities towards prohibiting and abolishing nuclear weapons.
Overall, this work identifies key points to be taken into account when drawing up guidelines that govern the use of herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops in order to preserve the effectiveness of this innovation over time.
The book describes the complex and variable laws addressing site contamination, reviewing existing international, regional and national law of relevance to site contamination.
This book provides a comprehensive study of border control: from data analysis andinformation warfare, frameworks for command and control, and game-theoretic riskmanagement, up to the (optimal) deployment of law enforcement missions.
This book identifies the most effective water policy tools and innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation by taking a comparative look at a world-leading 'laboratory' of water law and governance: Australia.
This volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (NYIL) addresses the question how the assumption that states have a common obligation to achieve a collective public good can be reconciled with the fact that the 195 states of today's world are highly diverse and increasingly unequal in terms of size, population, politics, economy, culture, climate and historical development.
El modelo de desarrollo extractivista viene generando un impacto en los territorios indígenas y afrodescendientes que, analizado de manera interrelacionada, va más allá de las violaciones a la integridad física de las comunidades y del despojo de sus tierras.
This book considers the international law applicable to maritime interception operations (MIO) conducted on the high seas and within the context of international peace and security, MIO being a much-used naval operational activity employed within the entire spectrum of today's conflicts.
With a Foreword by Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis ResponseOver the last decades natural and man-made disasters have been increasing in terms of frequency, size, number of people affected and material damage caused.
