A review of drought concepts

Multi-criteria decision analysis in natural resource management: A critical review of methods and new modelling paradigms

This new and fully updated edition of Principles of International Environmental Law offers a comprehensive and critical account of one of the fastest growing areas of international law: the principles and rules relating to environmental protection Introducing the reader to the key foundational principles, governance structures and regulatory techniques, Principles of International Environmental Law explores each of the major areas of international environmental regulation through substantive chapters, including climate change, atmospheric protection, oceans and freshwater, biodiversity, chemicals and waste regulation The ever-increasing overlap with other areas of international law is also explored through examination of the inter-linkages between international environmental law and other areas of international regulation, such as trade, human rights, humanitarian law and investment law Incorporating the latest developments in treaty and case law for key areas of environmental regulation, this text is an essential reference and textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and practitioners of international environmental law

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Principles of International Environmental Law

Can human-induced land degradation be distinguished from the effects of rainfall variability? A case study in South Africa

The contemporary debate on compliance has been framed in terms of two contending perspectives on how to best make states comply with international rules: the enforcement approach and the management approach. Whereas enforcement theorists stress a coercive strategy of monitoring and sanctions, management theorists embrace a problem-solving approach based on capacity building, rule interpretation, and transparency. This article challenges the conception of enforcement and management as competing strategies for achieving compliance. Based on the case of the EU and a comparison with other international regimes, I submit that enforcement and management mechanisms are most effective when combined. The twinning of cooperative and coercive instruments in a “management-enforcement ladder” makes the EU highly successful in combating violations, thus reducing non-compliance to a temporal phenomenon. Regimes in the areas of trade, environment, and human rights lend additional support to this proposition; compliance systems that offer both forms of mechanisms are particularly effective in securing rule conformance, whereas systems that only rely on one of the strategies suffer in identifiable ways.

Paths to Compliance: Enforcement, Management, and the European Union

Principles of International Environmental Law: Linkage of international environmental law and other areas of international law

General Introduction Part I: Overview of existing International Institutions The United Nations UN Specialised Agencies Other autonomous organisations Regional Institutions: Introduction European Organisations The Americas and Caribbean Asia The Middle East Africa Part II: The function of International Organisations "Legislative" or normative function "Executive" and administrative functions Judicial and quasi-judicial function Part III: Common Institutional Problems Law governing the activities of International Organisations Legal personality Membership and representation of members Financial aspects.

Bowett's law of international institutions

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 17 June 1994

Philippe Sands

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Principles of International Environmental Law

Principles of International Environmental Law: Linkage of international environmental law and other areas of international law

Bowett's law of international institutions

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, 17 June 1994

Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values