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Environmental law

About: Environmental law is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9487 publications have been published within this topic receiving 92224 citations. The topic is also known as: Environmental Law & Environmental law.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the effects of regulation, plant-level management policies, and plant and firm characteristics on environmental performance in Mexican factories, focusing especially on management policies: the degree of effort to improve environmental performance and the type of management strategy adopted.

463 citations

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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: In this paper, the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima or why political questions are not all economic is discussed, as well as the allocation and distribution of resources in environmental law.
Abstract: Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima or why political questions are not all economic 3. The allocation and distribution of resources 4. Frigile prices and shadow values 5. Values and preferences 6. Nature and the national idea 7. Can environmentalists be liberals? 8. Property and the value of land 9. Where Ickes went right or, Reason and rationality in environmental law Notes Index.

445 citations

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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The big economy, environment and ethics, economic growth, population growth and the environment, and how markets work and why they fail are examined.
Abstract: 1.The big economy 2.Environment and ethics 3.Economic growth, population growth and the environment 4.Sustainable development 5.How markets work and why they fail 6.How governments fail the environment 7.Cost-benefit thinking 8.Valuing concern for nature 9.Coping with uncertainty 10.Using the market to protect the environment 11.Charging for the use of the environment 12.Green taxes 13.Trading environmental permits 14.Setting environmental standards 15.Renewable resources 16.Non-renewable resources 17.Business and the environment 18.Managing waste 19.Climate change 20.Economics and the ozone layer 21.Conserving biological diversity 22.International enivornmental policy: acid rain 23.Environment in the developing world

434 citations

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TL;DR: The UN Human Rights Norms for Transnational Corporations and Other Businesses as mentioned in this paper help fill a major gap in the international human rights system, which already addresses the responsibilities of governments, individuals, and armed opposition groups, but has not yet focused on one category of powerful nonstate actors, businesses.
Abstract: Transnational corporations and other large businesses have acquired a significant amount of power since the trends of globalization started to develop. With this increase in power comes an increase in responsibility. The UN Human Rights Norms for Transnational Corporations and Other Businesses help fill a major gap in the international human rights system, which already addresses the responsibilities of governments, individuals, and armed opposition groups, but has not yet focused on one category of powerful nonstate actors, businesses. The Norms provide companies that want to be socially responsible with an easily understood and comprehensive summary of their obligations under such systems as human rights law, humanitarian law, international labor law, environmental law, consumer law, and anticorruption law. Accordingly, the Norms help to establish a level playing field for competition. Further, the Norms can strengthen the will of governments to insist that businesses avoid human rights abuses. Implementation remains a key issue in the future development of these standards.

377 citations

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01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: In this article, the New and the Old Environmental Politics: From conservation to environment, from conservation to economy, from ecology to economic analysis and planning, the middle ground: Management of environmental restraint, the politics of legislation, administration, and litigation.
Abstract: Preface Introduction: Environmental Politics - the New and the Old 1. From conservation to environment 2. Variation and pattern in the environmental impulse 3. The urban environment 4. The nation's wildlands 5. The countryside: A land rediscovered, yet threatened 6. The toxic environment 7. Population, resources, and the limits to growth 8. Environmental inquiry and ideas 9. The environmental opposition 10. The politics of science 11. The politics of economic analysis and planning 12. The middle ground: Management of environmental restraint 13. Environmental politics in the States 14. The politics of legislation, administration, and litigation 15. The Reagan antienvironmental revolution 16. Environmental society and environmental politics Notes Index.

358 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023187
2022414
2021152
2020283
2019349
2018338