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River Research and Applications, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Columbia river provides the largest Pacific outflow in the Western Hemisphere and the greatest hydropower production of any North American river system. For hydropower generation and flood risk management, four massive water storage reservoirs followed the Columbia River Treaty between Canada and the United States, with three Canadian dams,
Colleen A. Phelan +2 more
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Existing Sustainability Interventions are Insufficient to Scale Up Cocoa Agroforestry in West Africa
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions in agri‐food systems are required to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequities. In the West African cocoa sector, supply chain sustainability initiatives (SSIs) have emerged as key environmental governance tools to address these challenges and promote agroforestry.
Keessy Maria‐Prisca Kouakou +8 more
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae. IuridicaThe Energy Charter Treaty is a multilateral international treaty that contains regulations that, among other things, provide investors of other contracting parties with protection for their investments in the energy sector.
Barbara Šinková
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The ubiquitous proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across contemporary global economic systems necessitates a comprehensive empirical examination of their environmental ramifications, particularly with respect to environmental sustainability paradigms.
Brahim Bergougui
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China Employment Law Update - June 2017 [PDF]
, 2017 In This Issue: Judicial Interpretation Clarifies Issues Concerning Personal Data Criminal Cases Beijing High Court Opinion Makes Redundancies in Beijing Much More Difficult New Guideline Imposes Job Restrictions on Former Civil Servants China and Spain
Baker & McKenzie
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Human Rights Economic Dividends: Estimating the Economic Effects of Preventing Discrimination
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economies embracing principles like nondiscrimination are presumed to reap significant rewards, while violations incur heavy costs. We call these benefits human rights economic dividends—the economic gains that arise when policymaking is guided by human rights principles.
Jose Cuesta
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Interpreting Sui Generis Treaties
Alberta Law Review, 1997 This article explores the interpretive principle of sui generis treaties introduced by the Supreme Court of Canada since the repatriation of the Constitution in 1982. The article proceeds through an analysis of treaty rights as constitutional rights, contextual analysis of Indian Treaties, the intent of the treaty parties and the principles which ...
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Precedent and Control in Investment Treaty Arbitration [PDF]
, 2006 This Article\u27s thesis is that, although arbitrators in investment treaty arbitration are not formally bound by precedent in the same manner as common-law judges, there is an informal, but powerful, system of precedent that constrains arbitrators to ...
Cheng, Tai-Heng
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Sustainability as Justice: Making the “Leave No One Behind” Work
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper critically engages with the LNOB principle of the 2030 Agenda, highlighting its conceptual, methodological, and structural limitations. Building on Amartya Sen's social choice theory and Rawlsian justice, it reconceptualizes “sustainability as justice,” emphasizing real‐world comparative assessments grounded in intersectionality. It
Rallou Taratori, Flavio Comim
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MINNESOTA V. MILLE LACS: GATEWAY TO TRIBAL/STATE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT [PDF]
Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians is the United States Supreme Court's most recent decision to focus on the continued existence of tribal off-reservation hunting, fishing, and gathering rights (usufructuary rights) as guaranteed by 19th ...
Gonzalez, Mark J.
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