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Framework for Assessing and Improving Law for Sustainability - A Legal Component of a Natural Resource Governance Framework
… effort to take on these questions, through empirical assessment and analysis. The framework it presents is a … debate about the principles. Transparency reduces the risk of political manipulation or unfair criticism. The … may reproduce social inequities, of course, is a risk that evaluators cannot ignore. Finally, the framework …
The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… the precautionary strategy is likely to require assessment of the relative conservation threats and benefits … the concept of proportionality between level of risk and measures adopted, and include some form of analysis … arenas and contexts may demonstrate varying levels of risk- averseness, due in part to their different objectives …
The burden of proof in natural resources legislation: Some critical issues for fisheries law
… clean technologies rather than simply to rely on an assessment of the risks of various levels of pollutant … to the threat itself. This may well be relevant to an assessment of the extent to which normal procedural …
Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… rise to a multitude of legal mechanisms, including prior assessment of environmental harm, licensing or authorization … that flows from the concept of prevention is prior assessment of potentially harmful activities. Since the … considered that a properly conducted Environmental Impact Assessment might serve as a standard for determining whether …