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Sustainable Activities Assessment Through Conceptual Sieving Method: Case Studies in Colombian Mining
Despite the importance that industrial activities have to society, for some years certain corporative sectors, such as mining, have faced strong...
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The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Climate-Decision and Consequences for Raw Materials Supply
The German Federal Constitutional Court considers the civil rights of the younger generations to be violated by the fact that the climate protection...
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Ventilation on Demand in Brazilian Underground Mines: Current Situation and Perspectives
Ventilation systems are estimated to represent 40 to 50% of a mine’s total energy consumption. Therefore, ventilation on demand (VOD) is becoming...
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A Sustainability Approach to Optimize the Closure of Continuous Surface Lignite Mines
Mine closure is a crucial procedure of every mining operation and should be planned from the early beginning of the mine life cycle to ensure...
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Thermodynamics, Conservation, and Transformation: A Conceptual Model of Sustainability in the Mining Industry
A meaning of sustainability in the mining industry might be approached from the transformations that happen in territories where mining developments...
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Iterative Learning Processes
Investigation of whether current laws display mechanisms for iterative learning in cloud seeding programs shows that only one jurisdiction...
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Aotearoa – Neuseeland
Aotearoa, wie Neuseeland von den Maori genannt wird, übernahm erstmals im Jahr 2014 Eigenrechte der Natur in seine Gesetzgebung. Mit dem Te Urewera...
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UNFCCC CoP26: Key Outcomes for Soil Management
Declining soil health does not often reach the frontpages of newspapers or dominate the news cycle. Yet the importance of soil health cannot be...
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Legislative Protection for the Soil Environment and Climate Change
Recent court decisions in Australia and in overseas jurisdictions have made important progress in society’s acceptance of the significance of climate...
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Soil Protection Law in Japan
Environmental law has developed in parallel with the process of combating environmental pollution in Japan. However, while soil contamination has...
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Effective Governance for Sustainable Soil Management at National Level: Selected Recommendations Based on African and German Soil Law Studies
Although soils provide social and ecological services which are of a clearly transnational dimension, the management of soils need to be addressed...
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What Place for Contractual Commitments in the Protection of European Agricultural Soils? The Example of Carbon Sequestration
The contractual formula is becoming increasingly attractive to stakeholders, especially when it is associated with a booming market, as is the case...
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Soil-Related Laws in Thailand
Rapid economic development and urbanization are changing land management systems in many countries, including Thailand, and climate change has...
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Sustainable Soil Management and Soil Carbon Sequestration
Globally, food systems are associated with many unsustainable land use practices that lead to environmental damage such as greenhouse gas emissions,...
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Environmental Liabilities and Insurance Law in the United Kingdom
Individuals in the United Kingdom (UK) who suffer bodily injury and property damage from exposure to pollutants or other environmental damage have...
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Environmental Civil Liability in the Mercosur Region South America
In this chapter, from a theoretical approach, we deal in this first section with environmental responsibility, environmental damage in the Argentine...
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Prevention in Environmental Insurance
The goal of the chapter is to analyse the preventive aspect of insurance covering environmental risks. This seems important for a few reasons....
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Underwriting Environmental Risks for Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS) Coverage: Challenges and Best Practices Forward
The Paris Agreement on climate change is calling for mitigating techniques, such as carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS) to reduce carbon...
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Loss Adjustment in the Environmental Insurance and the Role of the Loss Adjuster
The chapter focuses on the loss adjustment service under an Environmental Impairment Liability cover. Within the loss adjustment aspects, the chapter...
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Liability for Pollution Damage to the Marine Environment
This chapter discusses some aspects of liability for pollution damage caused to the marine environment, focusing on the general obligations developed...