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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”.

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Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY

Vermont Law

Underlying vulnerabilities in Haiti such as poor governance, lack of sound infrastructure and technical capacities, and corruption provide the baseline for inconsistent or nonexistent environmental laws and regulation. 3, 2024), [link] [3] Francois Pierre-Louis, Earthquakes, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Governance in Haiti, 42 J.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. The program, which launched in 2011, is a 25-year effort to install stormwater runoff-absorbing green infrastructure and improve traditional infrastructure, easing the burden on our combined sewer system and reducing combined sewer overflows.

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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. Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Dabelko (eds.).

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Jayati Ghosh – It’s not just analysis, it’s a call for action

Frontiers

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. Therefore, these are the things we have to mobilize for and make so much noise that governments cannot avoid it.” These are things that can be done, it requires political will.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. It has become routine to announce new initiatives in technology, social entrepreneurship, or philanthropy at COPs.

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Would you buy my deconstructed house?

HumanNature

2016) The topic of deconstruction concerns various stakeholders including the general contractors, the recycling or deconstruction subcontractors and the government, both local and federal, who develop standards that are in place for recycling and re-use of materials. (Paruszkiewicz et al., Integrated Waste Management: Volume I.