This book offers a guide, for companies, pension funds, asset managers, and other institutional investors, on how to commence the legal, governance, and financial strategies needed for effective climate mitigation and adaptation, and to help distribute the economic benefits of these actions to their stakeholders.
This edited collection, the result of an international seminar held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, O ati, Spain in 2010, explores the potential legal and criminological consequences of climate change, both domestically and for the international community.
With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangible cultural heritage is of growing concern to global cities.
The Contract of Carriage: Multimodal Transport and Unimodal Regulation provides a new perspective on how to approach the question of multimodal transport regulation regarding liability for goods carried.
International Encyclopaedia of Environmental Laws have occupied the centre: stage among all efforts towards global environmental protection and consecration.
The Antarctic Treaty (1959) was adopted for the purpose of bringing peace and stability to Antarctica and to facilitate cooperation in scientific research conducted on and around the continent.
Esta obra recoge las reflexiones de un nutrido grupo de juristas en torno a los retos planteados por el proceso de transformación del sector marítimo-pesquero en actividad sostenible, desde una perspectiva medio-ambiental, empresarial y social.
This book examines the role of The International Maritime Organization (IMO) in the prevention and control of pollution of the marine environment from vessels with a particular reference to the current north-south tensions regarding the strategy for combating climate change in the maritime sector as well as the prevention of marine pollution from the ship-breaking industry.
Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently.
Industrial Safety and Health for People-Oriented Services focuses on the safety requirements of the tertiary sector of industry's education, health, and hospitality services.
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.
Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath their weapons, and listen to one another for their common good, which ultimately translates into social-environmental sustainability for all generations.
Understand the current concept of wetland and methods for identifying, describing, classifying, and delineating wetlands in the United States with Wetland Indicators - capturing the current state of science's role in wetland recognition and mapping.
An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.
Dynamics and Stochasticity in Transportation Systems: Solutions for Transportation Network Modeling breaks new ground on the topics, providing consistent and comprehensive coverage of steady state equilibrium and dynamic assignment within a common strategy.
Geopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy.
In an era of climate change, the need to manage our water resources effectively for future generations has become an increasingly significant challenge.
The UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters known ubiquitously as the Aarhus Convention is having an ever-increasing influence on domestic and EU environmental law and procedure.
The articles selected for this volume draw on game theory, political science, psychology, sociology and anthropology to consider how the process of dispute resolution is altered, challenged and made more complex by the presence of multiple parties and/or multiple issues.
Scholarly interest in water ethics is increasing, motivated by the urgency of climate change, water scarcity, privatization and conflicts over water resources.
El Código de Minas Comentado contiene una recopilación de las normas que comprenden la legislación minera vigente, con sus correspodientes concordancias, jurisprudencia y doctrina relevantes, así como los comentarios de la autora, que orientan al lector en la aplicación e interpretación de las mismas.
The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation.
This edited volume brings together critical research on climate change adaptation discourses, policies, and practices from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
This book explores the legal regime of non-product related process and production methods (NPR PPMs) in the context of trade-restrictive environmental measures, eco-labelling requirements and sanitary measures under the WTO.
This book comments on fifty key judgments which the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance have given on European Community environmental law.
