Discutiu-se nas últimas décadas qual o regime jurídico a aplicar aos recursos genéticos marinhos em áreas além da jurisdição nacional. Em abril de 2019 decorreu a segunda sessão da Conferência Intergovernamental orientada para a redação de um novo instrumento internacional vincu…
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O presente trabalho aborda a aplicação de componentes sustentáveis nas Contratações Públicas na perspectiva do sistema jurídico brasileiro. Desde a “virada ecológica”, especialmente após a Conferência de Estocolmo, as questões sobre o meio ambiente se intensificaram por conta, d…
Standards will play a large role in generating sustainability in the future. They will serve not only pave the way for international environmental regulations, but also to establish designs and specifications for building systems that reduce energy. Given the importance of susta…
Water is a vital resource for life. Environmental lawyer Stephen C. McCaffery identifies "two ominous phenomena relating to fresh water: increased water usage and increased global population numbers." This combined increase in population and water scarcity has been labeled as a …
Scope of study. This study examines the relationship between the assignment of liability for costs of waste disposal and the volume of illegal disposal, using the basic principles and tools of welfare economics. The primary objective is to determine the liability assignment, or …
There could hardly be any doubt that the pursuit of development objectives, especially in a developing country such as Nigeria, is a legitimate and in fact necessary path for economic, social and political advancement. Within the decades of the 1970s and 1980s however, increased…
This thesis discusses issues affecting contemporary nuisance law from an historical standpoint. It is recognised that there is a considerable volume of literature relating to the nineteenth century antecedents of the law today. Yet nuisance is a most ancient tort, dating back al…
This thesis brings together six works published between 2003 and 2007 which consider public involvement in environmental matters. The later works focus on access to justice, one of three elements of public involvement. The works support the thesis that aspects of public involvem…
Nigeria is an African country endowed with a wealth of oil and gas resources, and they are mainly found in the core Niger Delta (home to the Ijaw and Ogoni indigenous, ethnic minorities). Since Great Britain granted Nigeria political independence on October 1, 1960, successive N…
Supportive of the positive results that a distinct third generation human right to environment can offer, the paper argues that the key for this right's development and international recognition lies with the environment itself. Today, the biggest, most threatening environmental…
Recent discoveries of oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Guinea have renewed interest in petroleum development in West Africa. This news is received with both hope and apprehension by the citizens of West African nations. If properly managed, petroleum revenue can alleviate pove…
The governments of most post-Soviet states rapidly signed onto a range of environmental treaties upon gaining their independence from the Soviet Union in late 1991. However, their enthusiasm for signing onto international environmental agreements has not been matched by vigilanc…
The U.S. military must internalize international environmental principles into its military operations in foreign countries in order to fully win over the hearts and minds of the local population. Two principles in particular, the obligation to prevent transboundary environmenta…
This dissertation presents an in-depth study of one of the most controversial endangered species in United States history, and advances a theoretical framework for understanding the emergence of environmental problems in contemporary society. The delta smelt is a tiny fish found…
Place-based criminology has a long history of examining the potential causes and correlates of criminogenic environments. This line of scholarship has been able to establish that crime, levels of social guardianship, and racial/ethnic groups are unevenly distributed throughout s…
Antarctica is the only continent on Earth that does not have a history of commercial minerals development. To date, the non-economic nature of Antarctic minerals, combined with legal impediments, technological, climatic, and physical difficulties, and issues of remoteness, have …
What do people talk about when they talk about climate change? This dissertation sets out to answer this question by focusing on local understandings of climate change and the policy priorities that result from them in Miami. Through a historical study that spans from the 1920s …
When interest groups decide to litigate, they intentionally work through a process that has as much to do with the rule of law as with ideological preferences, in which the outcomes are much less certain. Some scholars oppose what has come to be known as ``public law cases'' bec…