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Judicial handbook on environmental law

… current patterns of production, consumption and waste management are dramatically altered. Sustainable development … protection, including environmental impact and risk assessment, prior licensing, and emission standards. At … and harmfulness of waste, uses a single method such as risk assessment for estimating and comparing environmental …
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The status of climate change litigation - A global review

… compelling an alternative approach to natural resource management. y Building on scientific understanding of the … of the consequences of climate change and the great risk of climate change occurring.” In reaching this … and RWE’s emissions—rather many emitters had created the risk of flood confronting Lliuya’s town such that the root …
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Judges and Environmenal Law: a Handbook for the Sri Lankan Judiciary

… title is to make provision for ‘the protection and xii management and enhancement of the environment; for the … to adversely affect the environment, or to pose a health risk. There are more than 3000 natural and human-made … such as arsenic can cause skin damage and increase the risk of cancer, while nitrites and nitrates (mainly from …
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Judges and the rule of law. Creating the links: Environment, human rights and poverty

… a variety of public and private stake- holders in resource management, to decentralization of government institutions … are choices necessitating decisions not only about how risk should be regulated, how much protection is enough, which risk should be regulated, how much to spend in controlling …
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A1- Integrating Environmental Concerns in International Water Law

… impact assessments in respect of activities posing a risk of causing transboundary harm; and the obligation to … a process of integrating environmental concerns into water management priorities and decision-making practices.[1] This … environmental impact assessment where there is a risk of transboundary harm.[1] In the Case concerning …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases

… Ltd v The Attorney General and the National Environment Management Authority, Misc app. No. 39 of 2001, High Court of … in a residential area, and (2) the potential risk of nuisance to nearby neighbours by noise, odour and fly … the Secretary of State to issue regulations to remove the risk by restricting the level of the electromagnetic fields. …
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Water Law and the Environment

… a process of integrating environmental concerns into water management priorities and decision-making practices.[1] This … environmental impact assessment where there is a risk of transboundary harm. In the Case concerning …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance