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Lakshman Guruswamy

Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder

Publications -  25
Citations -  165

Lakshman Guruswamy is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Environmental law & Global warming. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 25 publications receiving 151 citations. Previous affiliations of Lakshman Guruswamy include University of Tulsa & Chapman University.

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Energy Justice and Sustainable Development

TL;DR: Rodgers and Doman as mentioned in this paper pointed out that the focus of the climate change movement is on high energy users in the developed world, and advanced developing countries like China and India, while the other third of the world-the "EOP"-have been ignored.
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The Convention on Biological Diversity: exposing the flawed foundations

TL;DR: The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was signed during the 'Earth Summit' at Rio de Janeiro in June 1992 as discussed by the authors, and despite the warm, even euphoric welcome extended to this treaty by the environmental community, the difficulties of implementing the CBD in the last five years are unmasking and uncovering its flawed environmental foundations.
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International environmental law in a nutshell

TL;DR: The third edition of the book as discussed by the authors deals more fully than the third edition with climate change, energy, and sustainable development, and traverses a host of new challenges, such as drafting a new Kyoto Protocol, the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan.
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Sustainable Agriculture: Do GMOs Imperil Biosafety?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the extent to which restrictions on trade in GMOs, or living modified organisms (LMOs) as they are sometimes called, are consistent with sustainable development and sustainable agriculture.
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The Case for Integrated Pollution Control

TL;DR: In this article, the case for an integrated approach to pollution control (''IPC'') is reviewed and the disadvantages of the current fragmented approach and the advantages and difficulties posed by implementing an integrated one are discussed.