scholarly journals The Legal Framework for Environmental Protection in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Analysis of the Environmental Protection Law No. 52 of 2006

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saleh Al-Sharari
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Legal Framework

Legal framework for improvement of agroecology by cultivating jerusalem artichoke

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Kosmii ◽  
Vasyl. Kasiianchuk ◽  
Ruslan Zhyrak ◽  
Ivan Krykhovetskyi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Jerusalem Artichoke ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Scientific Cognition

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and research the legal mechanisms which make it possible to improve agroecology through the organization of cultivation of Jerusalem artichoke.Methodology. The methodology includes comprehensive analysis and generalization of available scientific, theoretical, practical and applied material and development of relevant conclusions and recommendations. During the research, the following methods of scientific cognition were used: dialectical, terminological, historical and legal, logical and normative, systemic and structural, functional, normative and dogmatic, generalization methods. Results. The process of analysis and research highlighted the possibilities of cultivating Jerusalem artichoke for improving agroecology, namely improving the ecological state of the atmosphere air and soil, preparing them for organic farming. The article contains examples of practical application of tubers of Jerusalem artichoke and herbage for the production of therapeutic and prophylactic products, alternative energy and highly efficient building materials. Scientific novelty. The study found that the authors summarized and systematized the levels of legal regulation in the field of using Jerusalem artichoke for improving agroecology, preparing soil for organic farming, in particular: the inter-sectoral level which covers the interaction of agricultural and environmental law in terms of cultivation and use of Jerusalem artichoke; the level of integrated environmental and legal regulation; level of individual resource (floristic) legal regulation; the level of environmental protection (anthropoprotection) legislation.Practical importance. The results of the study can be used in law-making and environmental protection activities related to issues of cultivating and using the Jerusalem artichoke as a means of improving agroecology.

scholarly journals Životna sredina - opasnosti i pravna zaštita / Human Environment ‒ Risks and Legal Protection

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Ilija Babić
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Ozone Layer ◽  
Montreal Protocol ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Human Environment

The most relevant factors that affect climate are astronomic cycles ant their effects on planet Earth and Earth’s orbit around the Sun. They have impact on the occurrence of glacial and interglacial periods at generally 100.000-year frequencies, which were affected by orbital shape variations and effects of greenhouse gases.The youngest geological epoch of the geological history of Earth is Holocene (started with warming) that began approximately 11.000 years BP. In that epoch, the shape of Earth’s orbit around the Sun was nearly circular, close to a perfect circle, and the seasonal contrast was less severe, due to decreased tilt of Earth’s axis from the plane of its orbit around the Sun. However, most scientists are arguing that the causes of rapid climate change are rooted in human activity, and not in its internal orbital variations. The main causes of global warming are increased level of carbon dioxide, but also of methane and chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere. These gases are responsible for the greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion in stratosphere and rapid global warming. In order to set up the legal framework of environmental protection, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment has adopted Stockholm Declaration in June 16, 1972. About twenty industrial states have ratified in 1987 the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which has undergone many revisions by London Convention (1990), Copenhagen Accord (1992), Vienna Convention (1995), Kyoto Protocol (1997) and the Paris Agreement ‒ an international universal agreement on climate adopted at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21). Environmental protection in the European Union is provided for by its primary and secondary law, and the most EU environmental regulations were implemented in the Serbian legislation.

Proposing the Bonding Requirements for Investment in Africa: A Tripartite Solution for the Environmental Protection

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deming Liu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Mining Activities ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
Oil Exploitation

AbstractAfrican countries do not have an effective legal framework to address the environmental damage that would be caused by the mining activities and oil exploitation of the transnational corporations. To resolve the issue, the paper proposes the modified bonding requirements under a tripartite agreement whereby the corporations’ home governments are involved. Conducting the discussion in the context of the Chinese investment in Africa and the environmental concerns that arise, the paper shows that such a scheme offers many advantages over the conventional bonding requirements and that it benefits both the local and the Chinese governments. Further, it proposes that the scheme should be made mandatory for any investors and governments in respect of their investments in the mining and oil industries in Africa.

scholarly journals Improving legal framework to implement the right to access to justice in environmental matters in Vietnam

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Vi Thy Tuong Phan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
International Environmental Agreements ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Environmental Agreements ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
The Right

“The right to access to justice in environmental matters” is one of human’s basic rights as mentioned in important international documents of human’s rights and international environmental agreements. This right, however, still rather new both in theory and in practice in Vietnam. To provide readers with an overview of the right to justice in environmental matters in Vietnam, this paper will present its origin and legal background. An analysis of some practical cases is also included to provide a better understanding about the right. The author also suggests some solutions with an attempt to guarantee the right so that the environmental protection will be carried out more efficiently.

scholarly journals Public water and waste management in Nigeria: legal framework, obstacles and challenges.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-641
Author(s):  
Lohya Ibrahim LAKAI
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
National Level ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
Legal Structure

This articled examines public water and waste management in Nigeria: Legal framework, obstacles and challenges. Public water and waste management has emerged as one of the greatest challenges facing environmental protection in Nigeria. The question of Legal framework in relation to public water and waste management is characterized by inefficient workforce, corruption, insufficient policies and poor enforcement of same. It is only proper, therefore, that certain legal measures be taken at the national level to control the situation and bring effective solution. Therefore, if there is to be sustainable development in waste management in Nigeria, the availability of land (for landfill), human resources, plant and equipment and other tools including capital must be readily available. But these would have great limitation without functional legal structure.

scholarly journals Trading deforestation - Why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago N. P. dos Reis ◽  
Vinicius Guidotti de Faria ◽  
Gabriela Russo Lopes ◽  
Gerd Sparovek ◽  
Chris West ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Consumer countries and blocs, including the UK and the EU, are defining legal measures to tackle deforestation linked to commodity imports, potentially requiring imported goods to comply with the relevant producer countries’ land-use laws. Nonetheless, this measure is insufficient to address global deforestation. Using Brazil’s example of a key exporter of forest-risk commodities, here we show that it has ~3.25 Mha of natural habitat (~152.8 million tons of CO2) at a high risk of legal deforestation until 2025. Additionally, the country’s legal framework is going through modifications to legalize agricultural production in illegally deforested areas. What was illegal may become legal shortly. Hence, a legality criterion adopted by consumer countries is insufficient to protect forests and other ecosystems and may worsen deforestation and conversion risks by incentivizing the weakening of social-environmental protection by producer countries.

scholarly journals Environmental Inspections and the EU: Securing an Effective Role for a Supranational Union Legal Framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hedemann-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Member State ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Field ◽  
The Future ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Legislative Measures ◽  
The Eu

AbstractOver several years, the European Union (EU) has gradually developed its legal framework to assist in the proper application of EU environmental protection rules, both at Member State as well as at EU institutional levels. This article focuses on one particular and relatively recent emerging element of that supranational framework, namely the range of EU secondary legislative measures and provisions concerning the management of environmental inspections. In addition to appraising the extent of EU legislative engagement in relation to environmental inspections, this article reflects on certain challenges of a constitutional nature that the EU will need to address in the future if its intervention in this particular policy field is to continue to develop.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF LEGAL REGULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITY: THE CONCEPT "ENSURING ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY" IN RELATION WITH THE CONCEPT OF "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION"

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Vorontsova ◽  
A. L. Vorontsov
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Systemic Problems ◽  
Legal Mechanism ◽  
Environmental Activities

The paper discusses the current problems of the Russian environmental law related to the need of improving the mechanism for the legal regulation of environmental activities in the Russian Federation. The authors emphasize importance of environmental problems and need for serious systematic work of state bodies, as well as participation of civil society to solve them. The need for an organizational and legal framework, which should be the foundation of all nature protection activities, is noted. Analyzing the state of environmental legislation, the authors conclude that, despite a large number of regulatory acts, the environmental and legal mechanism of the Russian state is not entirely effective. Justifying their position, the authors focus their attention on technical, legal and theoretical problems of the mechanism of legal regulation of nature protection activities. Among the existing problems, the authors highlight systemic problems of environmental legislation, the essence of which is the duplication and absence of internal unity of regulatory material. The reasons for this are chaotic work of the legislator and the lack of a single long-term plan for his work in the field of environmental protection. In addition to the above-mentioned problem, there is another problem of interpretation of such terms as "environmental safety", "ensuring environmental safety" and " environmental protection". All have been well analyzed. The need for resolving these issues for the practice of environmental activities, as well as their academic significance, is explained. The paper presents doctrinal points of view, as well as the author's position on the causes of some debatable issues in the scientific environment. The authors propose a solution. The features of the legislative consolidation of the terms of "environmental protection" and "ensuring environmental safety" are noted. According to the authors, it does not contribute to the development of a unified opinion on their correlation and creates the prerequisites for further discussions. In general, the authors conclude on imperfection of the legal mechanism regulating relations in the sphere of environmental protection.

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