Efforts to assess the effectiveness of environmental law through legal indicators are indispensable at a time when environmental law and its effective implementation and enforcement are crucial in the global transformation towards a sustainable society.
This report belongs to series of three related reports. This report investigates what legal compliance means for protecting forests and ecosystems in the main Latin American countries of origin for European soy: Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
These bylaws were developed through a consultative process involving stakeholders of the Building Drought Resilience (BDR) Project implemented by IUCN with funding from Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC).
These bylaws were developed through a consultative process involving stakeholders of the Building Drought Resilience (BDR) Project implemented by IUCN with funding from Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC).
This report aims to contribute to the international effort to combat wildlife crime in Sub-Saharan African protected areas by providing a systematic and evidence-based review of law enforcement practices that have proved to be effective in different situations, and by identifying emerging best pr
Author(s):
D'udine, Floris A.C.
Henson, David W.
Malpas, Robert C.
Organization(s):
BMZ
Conservation Development Centre (CDC)
Frankfurt Zoological Society, DE
Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
In order to gain further experience on rights-based approaches (RBAs) to conservation, the project focused on undertaking a situation analysis in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site in Lao PDR.
Author(s):
Moore, Patricia
Pholsena, Minavanh
Phommachanh, Ketsana
Glémet, Raphaël
Organization(s):
IUCN
IUCN Laos
Germany, Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development
Finland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar Convention Bureau
This study aims to survey the current level and form of State recognition of customary laws and institutions. The main focus of this paper is an analysis of the recognition of customary law in national constitutions.
This report summarizes the numerous activities implemented and documents prepared by the national and local-level expert groups, and presents the valuable lessons learned.
This report synthesises the findings of six participatory national assessments carried out under IUCN's Strengthening Voices for Better Choices (SVBC) global forest governance project.
With the growing scarcity of fish resources, instruments of fisheries management become crucial. This publication suggests a legal approach to this isssue, and focuses on six case studies: Indonesia, Kenya, Namibia, Brazil, Mexico and the EU.
This volume, the proceedings of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law 2004 Nairobi Colloquium, surveys global experience in implementing land use policies along the sustainable development continuum.
Judges play a critical role in the development, enforcement and compliance with environmental law. To showcase the role of the judiciary in upholding the rule of law, IUCN organized a Judiciary Day at its 2004 World Conservation Congress in Bangkok.
This volume is a companion to The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development. Here the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law assembles for the first time a volume of legal instruments which can be recognized as constituting the core of the law of energy for sustainable development.
The research focus for the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law in 2003 was a timely and challenging one, entitled 'The Law of Energy for Sustainable Development'.
This publication is a collection of documents and reports relating to the first stages of the Europe and Northern Asia Forest Law Enforcement and Governance process (ENAFLEG), primarily emerging from the project entitled: ENA-FLEG: Optimising Russian forest resilience to climate change through im
Author(s):
Tepliakov, V. K. (Viktor Konstantinovich)
Saint-Laurent, Carole
Pakhorukova, C.
Shmatkov, Nikolay
Organization(s):
IUCN, Office for the Commonwealth of Independent States
IUCN, Global Temperate and Boreal Forest Programme
This book contains a selection of papers on various legal issues of interest to developing countries which have been prepared by Fellows from InWent who came to Germany between 2002 and 2004 from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to research and write about subjects of their choice at the IUCN Envi
Author(s):
Burhenne-Guilmin, Françoise
Cedeño, Marianela
Fernández Fernández, Edgar
Jemaiel, Sondes
Mwebaza, Rose
Zhandeyeva, Dana
Organization(s):
Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (InWent), DE
Customary laws, established by communal practice and usage for generations and passed down through oral tradition, are familiar, effective and continue to be practiced to a greater or lesser extent throughout the Northern Areas. And yet few of them have been documented so far.
Laws in the twentieth century were based on economic growth and development. This new century calls for the reassessment of all laws from an environmental perspective in consideration of such looming environmental concerns as global warming, degradation of biodiversity and pollution.
Energy has recently emerged at the forefront of sustainable development. The United Nations Development Programmes World Energy Assessment (2000) linked energy and most of the ills of modern society in both developed and developing countries.
This is the first comprehensive environmental law book based primarily on materials from Asia and the Pacific, designed to provide appropriate resources for academics and other trainers in environmental law in the region.
The attention given to landscape in environmental law is new and the subject raises a series of interesting problems, which were highlighted at a Colloquium. Its central theme was the draft European Landscape Convention prepared by the Council of Europe, the first of its kind.
Organization(s):
IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL)
IUCN, Environmental Law Programme
IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Société française pour le droit de l'environnement, FR
This publication sets wetlands in their scientific, economic and legal context, before describing the main legal issues involved in implementing the Ramsar Convention.