Private Sector Environmental Information And The Law

Author : Juliana Zuluaga-Madrid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Corporation law
ISBN : 1003307612

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Private Sector Environmental Information and the Law by Juliana Zuluaga-Madrid Pdf

"Current advancements in civil rights and environmental activism emphasize the crucial importance of making environmental information widely available to the public, regardless of whether it is in the hands of the government or of corporations, especially when the information is needed to understand and prevent risks for human health and the environment. In the wake of a resurgence of environmental and civil rights activism, conflicts flare between the right of the people to know and the right of private actors to keep certain information hidden, mostly for commercial reasons. This book offers a detailed comparative analysis of how environmental information is being accessed in different countries and jurisdictions, and how these issues are currently being handled by judges and governments. Focusing on the right of access to environmental information held and produced by private actors and the legal issues that emerge when other values and rights are compromised, this book offers an alternative framework to improve on current legal systems, suggesting a more nuanced and balanced approach that takes both set of interests duly into consideration. Providing an integrated approach to public environmental law and private commercial law, the book integrates the arguments from both sides to establish a common ground, defining shared principles and models that provide a solid basis for a robust new system. Reviewing access to private sector information at a truly international level, this book will be relevant to students, academics and practitioners working in these areas"--

Author : Keith H. Hirokawa,Jessica Owley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 1585762369

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Environmental Law, Disrupted by Keith H. Hirokawa,Jessica Owley Pdf

Author : Juliana Zuluaga Madrid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000915112

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Private Sector Environmental Information and the Law by Juliana Zuluaga Madrid Pdf

Current advancements in civil rights and environmental activism emphasize the crucial importance of making environmental information widely available to the public, regardless of whether it is in the hands of the government or of corporations, especially when the information is needed to understand and prevent risks for human health and the environment. In the wake of a resurgence of environmental and civil rights activism, conflicts flare between the right of the people to know and the right of private actors to keep certain information hidden, mostly for commercial reasons. This book offers a detailed comparative analysis of how environmental information is being accessed in different countries and jurisdictions, and how these issues are currently being handled by judges and governments. Focusing on the right of access to environmental information held and produced by private actors and the legal issues that emerge when other values and rights are compromised, this book offers an alternative framework to improve on current legal systems, suggesting a more nuanced and balanced approach that takes both set of interests duly into consideration. Providing an integrated approach to public environmental law and private commercial law, the book integrates the arguments from both sides to establish a common ground, defining shared principles and models that provide a solid basis for a robust new system. Reviewing access to private sector information at a truly international level, this book will be relevant to students, academics and practitioners working in these areas.

Author : Pierre-Marie Dupuy,Jorge E. Viñuales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107328648

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Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection by Pierre-Marie Dupuy,Jorge E. Viñuales Pdf

Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection. Adopting legal, economic and political perspectives, the contributing authors analyse the various incentives which encourage foreign investment into pro-environment projects (such as funds, project-finance, market mechanisms, payments-for-ecosystem services and insurance) and the safeguards against its potentially harmful effects (investment regulation, CSR and accountability mechanisms, contracts and codes of conduct).

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309062435

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Information Systems and the Environment by National Academy of Engineering Pdf

Information technology is a powerful tool for meeting environmental objectives and promoting sustainable development. This collection of papers by leaders in industry, government, and academia explores how information technology can improve environmental performance by individual firms, collaborations among firms, and collaborations among firms, government agencies, and academia. Information systems can also be used by nonprofit organizations and the government to inform the public about broad environmental issues and environmental conditions in their neighborhoods. Several papers address the challenges to information management posed by the explosive increase in information and knowledge about environmental issues and potential solutions, including determining what information is environmentally relevant and how it can be used in decision making. In addition, case studies are described and show how industry is using information systems to ensure sustainable development and meet environmental standards. The book also includes examples from the public sector showing how governments use information knowledge systems to disseminate "best practices" beyond big firms to small businesses, and from the world of the Internet showing how knowledge is shared among environmental advocates and the general public.

Author : Elisa Morgera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198738046

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Corporate Environmental Accountability in International Law by Elisa Morgera Pdf

"This book explores the evolving role of international law in directing and controlling the conduct of business enterprises, in particular multinational corporations, with respect to the protection of the environment, the sustainable use of natural resources, and the respect of inter-related human rights. It assesses the progress and continuing limitations in the identification of international standards of corporate environmental accountability and responsibility, and their implementation by international organizations. This assessment shows the extent to which the international community has conceptually and operationally clarified its expectations about acceptable corporate conduct. This second edition of Elisa Morgera's book reflects the intensified convergence of international standard-setting efforts on corporate environmental accountability, with parallel international developments on business and human rights and the environment. It also explores the recent emergence of substantive international standards of corporate environmental responsibility, which have arisen from a growing number of sectoral guidelines. Equally, it points to the remaining divergences in the content of international standards of corporate environmental accountability and responsibility, which reflect differing views among States of their international obligations to ensure the protection of the environment and the respect of human rights.?--Provided by publisher.

Author : Abbe E. L. Brown
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780857934185

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Environmental Technologies, Intellectual Property and Climate Change by Abbe E. L. Brown Pdf

Many disciplines are relevant to combating climate change. This challenging book draws together legal, regulatory, geographic, industrial and professional perspectives and explores the role of technologies in addressing climate change through mitigation, adaptation and information gathering. It explores some key issues. Is intellectual property part of the solution, an obstacle to change or peripheral? Are there more important questions? Do they receive the attention they deserve? And from whom? This innovative book will play an important role in stimulating holistic discussion and action on an issue of key importance to society. Environmental Technologies, Intellectual Property and Climate Change will appeal strongly to scholars researching IP and climate change, as well as to a range of professionals including venture capitalists, practising lawyers working in IP, environmental and corporate finance law, activists within both climate change and human rights, and policymakers.

Author : Cary Coglianese,Jennifer Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136525070

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Leveraging the Private Sector by Cary Coglianese,Jennifer Nash Pdf

Leveraging the Private Sector offers the first sustained analysis of public and private sector initiatives designed to encourage firms and industries to use their own management expertise to improve their environmental performance. Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash bring together original empirical studies by the nation?s leading experts on recent public and private sector experiments. Do management-based strategies lead to improved environmental outcomes? What kinds of strategies hold the most promise? Leveraging the Private Sector addresses these questions through studies of state pollution prevention planning laws, private sector purchasing requirements, and federal risk management regulations, among others. The contributors show that efforts to leverage private sector experience and knowledge can have a distinctive contribution in the future of environmental protection. Ultimately, a firm's broader management practices shape its environmental performance. Public and private sector strategies that seek to influence these practices directly can help bring about further environmental improvements. This book breaks new ground by investigating a new and promising approach for advancing the economy and the environment.

Author : Emma Lees,Jorge E. Viñuales
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198790952

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Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law by Emma Lees,Jorge E. Viñuales Pdf

This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law. It examines in detail the methodological foundations of the discipline as well as the substance of environmental law across countries from four vantage points: country studies from all continents, responses to common problems (including air pollution, water management, nature conservation, genetically modified organisms, climate change and energy, chemicals, waste), foundational components of environmental law systems (including principles, property rights, administrative and judicial organisation, command-and-control regulation, market mechanisms, informational techniques and liability mechanisms), and common interactions of environmental protection with the broader public, private, and criminal law contexts. 0The volume brings together the foremost authorities in this field from around the world to provide a concise, self-contained, and technically rigorous account of environmental law as a single overall system.

Author : Cristos Velasco San Martín
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041148872

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Availability of Spatial and Environmental Data in the European Union by Cristos Velasco San Martín Pdf

The Availability of Spatial and Environmental Data in the European Union

Author : Colin T. Reid,Walters Nsoh
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783474448

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The Privatisation of Biodiversity? by Colin T. Reid,Walters Nsoh Pdf

Current regulatory approaches have not prevented the loss of biodiversity across the world. This book explores the scope to strengthen conservation by using different legal mechanisms such as biodiversity offsetting, payment for ecosystem services and conservation covenants, as well as tradable development rights and taxation. The authors discuss how such mechanisms introduce elemhents of a market approach as well as private sector initiative and resources. They show how examples already in operation serve to highlight the design challenges, legal, technical and ethical, that must be overcome if these mechanisms are to be effective and widely accepted.

Author : Peter N. Grabosky,Bridget Hutter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:222805800

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Green Markets by Peter N. Grabosky,Bridget Hutter Pdf

Author : Volker Mauerhofer,Daniela Rupo,Lara Tarquinio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030426309

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Sustainability and Law by Volker Mauerhofer,Daniela Rupo,Lara Tarquinio Pdf

The book discusses sustainability and law in a multifaceted way. Together, sustainability and law are an emerging challenge for research and science. This volume contributes through an interdisciplinary concept to its further exploration. The contributions explore this exciting domain with innovative ideas and replicable approaches. It combines a variety of authors, from both the public and the private sectors, and thereby guarantees a broad view that enshrines the more theoretical arguments from the academic side as well as stronger practical applicable perspectives. The book provides space for thoughtful expansions of established theories as well as the hopeful emergence of innovative ideas. Moreover, the combination of three to five contributions into the eleven parts respectively aims toward a compression of like minded thoughts. This should lead to an intensification of exchange of viewpoints from different angles on a similar theme. Readers therefore also have the opportunity to concentrate on single chapters, but receive comprised knowledge and a variety of thoughts for new ideas on a particular theme.

Author : John Morelli
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000724189

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Voluntary Environmental Management by John Morelli Pdf

A shift from government oversight to private sector self-regulation appears to be the future of environmental management. This will be a complex and complicated transition, as individual companies attempt to balance their needs against that of the surrounding communities - and world. Voluntary Environmental Management: The Inevitable Future explores how business and industry are preparing for this dramatic shift in responsibility and accountability. John Morelli pinpoints companies that have already adopted environmental auditing and management tools; examines the deficiencies of government-imposed environmental regulations; and shows how businesses can become more proactive in monitoring and managing their environmentally affective activities. The role of global marketplace forces receives substantial emphasis in Voluntary Environmental Management: The Inevitable Future, especially in light of the widespread international acceptance of new ISO 14000 standards.

Author : Elisa Morgera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198738046

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Corporate Environmental Accountability in International Law by Elisa Morgera Pdf

"This book explores the evolving role of international law in directing and controlling the conduct of business enterprises, in particular multinational corporations, with respect to the protection of the environment, the sustainable use of natural resources, and the respect of inter-related human rights. It assesses the progress and continuing limitations in the identification of international standards of corporate environmental accountability and responsibility, and their implementation by international organizations. This assessment shows the extent to which the international community has conceptually and operationally clarified its expectations about acceptable corporate conduct. This second edition of Elisa Morgera's book reflects the intensified convergence of international standard-setting efforts on corporate environmental accountability, with parallel international developments on business and human rights and the environment. It also explores the recent emergence of substantive international standards of corporate environmental responsibility, which have arisen from a growing number of sectoral guidelines. Equally, it points to the remaining divergences in the content of international standards of corporate environmental accountability and responsibility, which reflect differing views among States of their international obligations to ensure the protection of the environment and the respect of human rights.?--Provided by publisher.