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HotSpots H2O: In Malaysia, the Mah Meri Resist Eviction from Coastal Homeland

Circle of Blue

In 2002, courts ruled in favor of the Temuan, a tribe that had been served eviction notices in 1995 by Malaysian state authorities. . But, as is the case for Indigenous tribes across the world, outside development has been hard to resist in the face of political indifference and corporate heft. Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Guest Post by Julie Liebenguth , Ph.D.

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Book review: The Age of Resilience, by Jeremy Rifkin

A Greener Life

See his 2002 book, two decades before the spate of recent national hydrogen plans. Prizing efficiency above all else, it has been locked in through the economics profession and political systems. A localised bioregional government that can respond to immediate environmental priorities. Rifkin wrote a book about that in 1995.

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UK 2024 General Election – Mapped: The Tory network of climate denial and fossil fuel funding

A Greener Life

By Adam Barnett DeSmog catalogues how oil and gas firms have forged ties with the highest levels of government, the media, and influential think tanks. Jolyon Maugham, director of the Good Law Project, told DeSmog: “Abraham Lincoln spoke of government ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ Graph credit: DeSmog.

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Tax Incentives Find New Purpose for Conserving Water in American West

Circle of Blue

The easement is then purchased or donated to a land trust or government agency, which is responsible for enforcing its stipulations. Farmers across the drying American West are taking notice because groundwater depletion is a top-line political issue in nearly every state from the High Plains to the Pacific Coast.

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Environmental activism in Latin America

Our Environment

As a result, greedy businesses, financers and governments all across the globe have been exploiting the valuable resources these million-year-old forests hold. It has also been reported that between the years of 2002 and 2018 more than 20 million hectares of tropical forests were cleared in the Amazon purely for beef production.

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Louisiana’s Sabine River Authority Not Entitled To Sovereign Immunity

The Energy Law Blog

An entity classified as an “arm of the state” would be entitled to sovereign immunity provided by the Eleventh Amendment; in contrast, a “political subdivision” is not afforded the same protection. Tarrant County , 798 F.2d 2d 736, 744-45 (5 th Cir. The burden of proof falls on the entity seeking immunity and SRA-L failed to meet its burden.

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