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Enabling a Circular Water Transition: Identifying Governance Pathways for Wastewater Reuse

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over 80% of the world's wastewater is discharged untreated, making reuse a widely underutilised strategy for addressing water scarcity. Due to the complexity of implementing water reuse systems, supportive governance conditions are required to steer this process and overcome barriers.
Kirsty Holstead   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empirical Study of the Civil Justice System [PDF]

open access: yes
In this essay, we discuss empirical research on the economic effects of the civil justice system. We discuss research on the effects of three substantive bodies of law- contracts, torts, and property- and research on the effects of the litigation process.
Daniel P. Kessler, Daniel L. Rubinfeld
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Constructing Policy (In)coherence in Germany's Energy Transition and Impacts on (In)equality

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy coherence is widely regarded as essential for achieving sustainable development, climate targets, and reducing inequality, as reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recent scholarship has moved beyond technocratic approaches, drawing on comparative politics, particularly the “3 I's” of ideas, interests, and ...
Alexia Faus Onbargi, Ines Dombrowsky
wiley   +1 more source

Coherence Between Climate and Land Use Policies of the European Union, Brazil, and Indonesia: A Primer to Analyze Potential GHG Leakage

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Incoherence between national land use policies may weaken climate mitigation efforts by creating conditions under which agricultural and forestry production and GHG emissions are displaced across borders (leakage). Coherence depends on constellations and prioritization of national policy aims in land use (production) and climate (conservation).
Heiner von Lüpke   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extending the role of Tort as a means of environmental protection: An investigation of recent developments of the law of Tort and the European Union

open access: yes, 1999
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The purpose of this thesis is to determine the extent to which it is possible to develop an environmental role for the law of tort.
Wilde, Mark Laurence
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‘Free to Be Me?’: Gender Role Norms Constrain Career Interests Less for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People Than for Heterosexual People

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Societal gender role norms play a crucial role in shaping men's and women's career aspirations. However, prior research documenting this key role of gendered norms has primarily focused on heterosexual women and men in the global North‐West. Previous studies documenting differences in career interests by sexual orientation suggest that gender ...
Katharina Block   +136 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ernst Swoboda and the Czechoslovak Draft Civil Code of the Interwar Period

open access: yesJournal on European History of Law
Ernst Swoboda (1879–1950) is among the leading civil law scholars and legal philosophers of the interwar period in Central Europe. This paper examines a chapter of his work that is well-known in the German-speaking world, namely the period of the 1930s,
David Marhold
doaj   +2 more sources

The structure of civil proceedings – convergence through the main hearing model?

open access: yes, 2018
Traditionally, European civil procedure systems have displayed a range of structures. Currently, systems are converging around the main hearing model, which international soft law initiatives on civil procedure also endorse.
Nylund, Anna
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Renewable Energies in Kazakhstan: Current Status, Potential, Challenges, and Opportunities

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
Kazakhstan has strong renewable energy potential, with wind as the leading resource and solar and other sources offering additional opportunities. Key challenges include limited infrastructure, investment needs, and grid‐related technical issues. Despite these barriers, renewables can boost economic diversification, enhance energy security, create jobs,
Lyailim Taizhanova   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

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