Legislation

In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in acquiring farmland for agricultural investments in lower-income countries. Whilst such investments can create jobs, improve access to markets and support infrastructure, many large land deals have been associated with negative impacts for local populations, including the dispossession of land and other resources and increased conflict over economic benefits. There is growing evidence on the scale, geography and impacts of large deals.

This paper examines the volumes, sources and flows of e-waste, the risks it poses to e-waste workers and the environment, occupational safety and health issues, labour issues and regulatory frameworks, and links this growing global problem with the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) current and future work.

This handbook constitutes one of the battles being fought by civil society organisations to promote and protect the rights of communities living adjacent to mining areas against the operations of extractive industries, the state and other individuals who violate their Environmental, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (EESCR). Its objective is to assist legislators to further appreciate and build their knowledge on the key issues that they should focus on in carrying out their representative, oversight and legislative role in the extractive sector.

The report gives an account of Ireland's natural heritage or biodiversity, starting with the legislative framework designed to protect it, and presents a brief portrait of some of the contry's more important habitats and elements of her flora and fauna. The main threats to biodiversity in Ireland are discussed and the report concludes by attempting to assess the state of the natural environment and how efforts to manage and safeguard our natural heritage are progressing.

This study arises from concern that New Zealand is losing its important natural and cultural landscapes. It draws together literature on landscape protection in New Zealand and elsewhere, includes a review of case law, and contains material gathered from case studies of the Waitakere Ranges, Coromandel Peninsula, Wakatipu Basin, Banks Peninsula and Whangarei District. The study focuses on the protection of important landscapes, on privately owned land, from the impact of urban and rural-residential development and associated infrastructure.

Mediante una discusión del concepto de parque nacional, tal como se ha ido usando por la legislación española para establecer la red de parques nacionales, con el objetivo de averiguar hasta qué punto pueden existir áreas apropiadas para su catalogación como parque nacional de acuerdo a lo que la propia administración ha ido definiendo como tales mediante la creación de la citada red de parques.

This guide discusses options to structure investment contractsin ways that maximise the investment's contribution to sustainable development. The focus is on foreign investment in the natural resource sector and on lower- and middle-income countries. The guide draws on test trainings in Ghana and Central Asia and aims to provide up-to-date and comprehensive learning material for both host governments and civil society. It can be used as a background document for training sessions, but it may also be used by readers accessing the material on their own.

Compartir un territorio no equivale a percibirlo de la misma manera. Por eso hay muchas formas de interpretar la realidad territorial, muchas aproximaciones sectoriales distintas. Este libro trata de mostrar la complejidad sistémica del territorio, por encima de reduccionismos o iteraciones. Expertos de muy diverso origen profesional reflexionan sobre conceptos emergentes que permiten ver sistémicamente, y sobre todo concebir holísticamente, un nuevo espacio para unos nuevos tiempos.

Esta publicación tiene por objetivo describir las herramientas jurídicas del ordenamiento argentino que podrían aplicarse a la conservación de la naturaleza en tierras de propiedad privada. Con esa finalidad, se describen algunos mecanismos jurídicos contemplados en la legislación nacional, tales como la servidumbre, el usufructo o el fideicomiso, y las posibles ventajas e inconvenientes que su aplicación podría generar a quien decidiera utilizarlas.