Environmental Law in Developing Countries

Environmental Law in Developing Countries
Author: Nazrul Islam
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2002
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9782831706252

This publication contains four papers on different legal issues of interest to developing countries. The papers were researched and written by four Carl Duisberg Gesellscaft (CDG) Fellows who came to Germany from Bangladesh, Venezuela, Nigeria and China to study under the host leadership of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre. Subjects chosen by these Fellows vary widely, and cover ISO 14001, access to environmental justice in Latin America, patents and plant resources-related knowledge, and law and policy of the European Union on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and their significance to China.

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Total Pages: 248
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Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment
Author: Peter Wathern
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134897715

This comprehensive treatment of environmental impact assessment (EIA) provides an authoritative contemporary review of theory and practice over the past ten years. EIA is viewed as both science and art, reflecting the concern both with technical aspects of appraisal and the effects of EIA on the decision-making process. Adopted in many countries, with different degrees of enthusiasm, since its inception in the early 1970's, EIA is established as a major procedure for assessing the environmental implications of legislation, the implementation of policy and plans and the initiation of development projects. EIA is increasingly an essential part of environmental management

Working Forests in the Neotropics

Working Forests in the Neotropics
Author: Daniel Zarin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2004
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780231129077

-- Thomas Lovejoy, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.