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Judicial handbook on environmental law
… desertification threatens the food supply. UN Habitat 2003 reported that more than 180 million people in … company, predicted in 2003 that the global economic loss due to extreme weather events would reach US$30 billion … 95 10.4.1 National law 96 10.4.2 International law 97 10.5 Habitat Protection (including Wetlands) 98 10.5.1 National …
Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary
… have seen the clearing of forests, draining of wetlands, loss of biodiversity, exploitation of natural resources, … condition, such as the structure and function of a damaged habitat or ecosystem.35 Remediation is usually carried out … of natural waterways, the loss of forests and wildlife habitat, and the loss of aquatic biodiversity, among other …
Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases
… Brazil 1 India 31 Nepal 4 Duty to Conserve Wildlife in Habitat Kenya 1 Duty to Consider Options United States 2, 11 … 9 Nepal 5 United States 8 Human Carcinogens Canada 3 Human Habitat Brazil 1 Human Rights India 17, 31 International 9 … for clean-up and 51 opportunity costs, collective food loss and other environmental damage to the band members. The …
Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty
… erosion, deforesta- tion, declining water tables and the loss of flora and fauna and the consequent subsis- tence … The statutory definition of “take and kill” included habitat destruction. The appellant citizen, who had objected … eagle in the world, the Philippine Eagle, a bird with a habitat range of some 5,000ha. What is interesting about this …
The status of climate change litigation - A global review
… rights and responsibilities vis-à-vis prospective loss of coastal land, to find that they had standing to … those protections and the cause of the properties’ partial loss of value was the fault of the Council, which years … to list a species and determining that species’ critical habitat.128 Australian climate change litigation has been …