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Private lands conservation in law and culture
Many ecological conservation goals require the use of legal means to channel land development and otherwise curtail unsound uses of privately owned lands.
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Environmental degradation, economic development, and gender: A comparative analysis
The project has as its goal to advance a comparative law analysis between Colombia and South Africa in terms of legal interventions to counteract or prevent environmental destruction and its particular gendered effects.
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Constitutional Protection of Natural Resources in Tanzania: Examining Principles, Paucity and Conundrums
Laltaika, Elifuraha. 2021. Constitutional Protection of Natural Resources in Tanzania: Examining Principles, Paucity and Conundrums. TUMA La...
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An Aye Aye for an Aye Aye: Making Biodiversity Offsets Sustainable
Takacs, David. 2020. An Aye Aye for an Aye Aye: Making Biodiversity Offsets Sustainable. Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, 45. https://...
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Shaping the Law for Global Crises
Jaap Spier. 2012. Shaping the Law for Global Crises. Eleven International Publishing. 292 pp. ISBN-10: 9490947431
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South Africa and the Human Right to Water: Equity, Ecology, and the Public Trust Doctrine
Takacs, David. 2016. South Africa and the Human Right to Water: Equity, Ecology, and the Public Trust Doctrine. Berkeley Journal of Internat...
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Are Koalas Fungible? Biodiversity Offsetting and the Law
Takacs, David. 2018. Are Koalas Fungible? Biodiversity Offsetting and the Law. N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal, 26, 161–226. https://ssrn.c...
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The readiness of South African law and policy for the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal 11
Du Plessis, Anél. 2018. The readiness of South African law and policy for the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal 11. Law, Democracy & D...
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Deeply equitable development: water provision and biodiversity offsetting in South Africa
Fulfilling human rights to a clean and healthy environment while sustaining that environment for present and future generations of humans and non-humans is unambiguously worthwhile until a nation tries to achieve these goals simultaneously.